Actually you did not miss these posts as they were not sent to the 
list. I just took the liberty to forward them here to keep the Unix 
folks informed. It's not nearly as bad as it seems, and soon we'll have 
the best VM of 'em all ;-)

-- Bert

Am Dienstag, 10.06.03 um 17:51 Uhr schrieb Jason Rogers:

> Thanks!  I guess with all the traffic that goes on this list I missed
> those posts.  BTW: I don't want to seem ungrateful to Ian (and everyone
> else who have helped to make the Linux VM a success)... without your
> expertise I would never be able to enjoy Squeak fully since I rarely 
> run
> on Windows.
>
> Thanks again!
> =jason
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 06:08, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Lately there have been many reports of folks not being able to get the
>> "latest" Unix VM to work. I just wanted to point out that you all
>> should be using the 3.4 VM. It goes fine with a 3.5 image (which was
>> only a bug fix release anyway) and should run all the latest and
>> greatest stuff (3.6-something) just fine. It even runs Croquet.
>>
>> Here it is straight from the Ian's mouth:
>>
>> Ian Piumarta <ian.piumarta at inria.fr> wrote on June 5 2003
>>>
>>> BTW, you guys are all hammering on a completely unreleased "alpha" VM
>>> containing oodles of new code that I hacked up over the space of a
>>> week or
>>> two and didn't really test much (yet).  This is partly what's making
>>> your
>>> lives difficult.  (I'm not complaining about this in any way shape or
>>> form
>>> -- it's _really_ nice to be getting all this *great* feedback -- but 
>>> I
>>> thought you should know anyway. ;)  3.4 is still the "stable" VM of
>>> choice.
>>
>> And also:
>>
>>> [...] I plan to be back in full-time Squeak circulation Real Soon
>>> Now...
>>
>> Yay! :-)
>>
>> -- Bert