On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 18:31 +0200, Marcus Denker wrote:
This runs Linux+Gnome. The interesting thing is now: Gnome is even younger than Squeak (I think it started in the fall of 1997).
The big question now is: Why does this device not run Squeak as the OS/GUI? Why is Squeak as a project not in a state that it could be the OS of this device? Or: Why did Squeak fail?
Two big reasons in my mind: 1) the visual appearance of Squeak is terrible, and its UI is poor. People's standards are much higher today. When I play with Squeak, I find it a blast from the past (mid 1980's). Most people don't see past Squeak's appearance to its other virtues.... 2) The world is not all smalltalk... For better or worse, a critical mass of applications exist for Linux using C, C++, Python, Perl, etc, and any effectively closed environment will never go mainstream.
Regards, - Jim