From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-10-23T06:57:23+09:00
Subject: Ruby and Lunar Linux

OK, now that Chuck Meade has weighed in, let me speak
a little more plainly. (BTW, if you are reading the
mailing list, you may not see his reply, which was to
the newsgroup. Mirroring is currently broken, I think.)

I don't wish to detract from Rubyx or the efforts of
Andrew W and others.

But it was Lunar, not Rubyx, that I was talking about.

I've been a Lunar enthusiast for several months now.
It's very fast and very stable, definitely a hacker's
platform.

The current app management system is in bash, but there
is talk of porting it to Ruby. Needless to say, I'm very
much in favor of that. Some porting work has already been
done by me and a couple of other developers.

Of course, in the process of porting, a lot of enhancement
will be done. You always learn from the first time. (One
of my friends once told me, "The way to write the best
possible system is: Write it once, throw it away, write it
again." There's some truth in that.)

So, any interested Rubyists can go to http://lunar-linux.org
for more information.

I have a feeling we'll be needing you.


Cheers,
Hal Fulton