From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2003-10-23T07:23:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Lunar Linux

On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 10:57 pm, Hal Fulton wrote:
> 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.)

Indeed it is. A quick look using google groups show messages I have not 
received fromm the ML. I'll reply to the those from there.
>
> 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.
>

Sorry! Didn't mean to hijack the thread :(

> 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.

Rubyx was written in bash in the beginning, and called FTL. It's been ruby 
based for quite a while now (I used it as an exercise to learn ruby 
actually...)
>
> 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.)
>

Amen. :)

> So, any interested Rubyists can go to http://lunar-linux.org
> for more information.
>
> I have a feeling we'll be needing you.

I'm off to take a look right now
>
>
> Cheers,
> Hal Fulton