On Monday 27 Oct 2003 8:07 pm, Kingsley wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm quite interested in your ruby OS. Perhaps I can help out somewhere
> although I only started programming recently.
>
Cool! Lots of jobs need doing; Keeping track of package releases springs to 
mind...

> I'm keen to know what state RubyX is in at the moment?
>
Up and running very nicely

> Is there documentation anywhere - where does the project live ? Is it on
> sourceforge or somewhere?
>
I'm doing the definative howto as we speak. Watch this space...

> Is it  just a command line distro at the moment ?  Is it slower than linux
> as its non compiled?
No - it's a full distro. It's also compiled and potentially faster than most 
binary distros. The rubyx script is written in ruby and downloads and 
compiles all the other packages which make up the full os

>
> Is it in a state or will it ever be in a astate where one could run KDE on
> it ? or are there plans for a new Desktop ?
It has run Kde for quite a while, and Gnome as of today. If you want any other 
window manager, I can probably include it in a couple hours. But as for 
writing a new Desktop; no. Kde and Gnome are already excellent and I'm afraid 
I implemented rubyx as only one small component of a much bigger project, so 
time is limited :)
>
> how have you handled all the linuxy stuff like file systems, proc and
> devices?
Thats a big question. rest assured it all works.
>
> does it run with the linux kernel ? or does it have a Ruby kernel ?

Maybe I'll knock up a rubyx kernel next week :) No, Linus is safe for the 
moment :)

Andrew