I am also insterested.  But, could someone who knows about these VMs
post something describing the differences between Ian's VM and the
Sourceforge VM (or any other VMs floating about)?  Also, if you could
just tell me which one is better, that would be helpful.  If neither one
has a clear advantage over the other, maybe we should start another
SourceForge site to make a third VM that combines the best aspects of
the other two VMs.

Sorry for the provocative nature of this email, but seriously...please
address these issues before they become a real problem.

Just a concerned Linux based Squeaker,
Stephen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of Ian Piumarta
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:14 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Stable 3.1beta for Unix
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> On the offchance that there's anybody out there who still 
> cares about my VM, I've put an updated 3.1beta in the usual 
> place (source and
> binaries):
> 
>   http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak
> 
> Since 3.1beta-4478pre1:
> 
>   - much tidying up of the X code, with lots of small annoyances (and
>     one serious synchronisation problem that was causing "delays" in
>     mouse events) fixed
> 
>   - mouse wheel works again (wheel scrolls selection, 
> wheel+ctrl scrolls
>     the pane)
> 
>   - buttons are where they should be (with a new option `-swapbtn'
>     which exchanges yellow and blue -- sometimes preferable on
>     two-button mice)
> 
>   - modifier mappings are saner (on Apple keyboards they should now be
>     identical to MacOS; for non-Apple keyboards there's a switch
>     `-swapmod' to make life easier in some cases)
> 
>   - delete is not mapped to backspace (it hasn't been for a while,
>     so that recent thread perplexed me a little... but in any case,
>     there's now an option `-mapdelbs' to turn it on)
> 
>   - additions to man page for new options / env vars
> 
>   - thorough overhaul of asynchronous i/o and socket code (which
>     appears to be way more robust than it's ever been: *many* thanks
>     to John Mc for providing me with his SUnit tests and helping to
>     hammer on sockets in all manner of cruel and unusual ways, and
>     to Goran Hultgren for insisting in the first place)
> 
> Precompiled binaries are available for:
> 
>     powerpc-netbsd
>     powerpc-linux-gnu
>     intel-linux-gnu
>     sparc-solaris
> 
> If anyone still cares about alpha-osf1, let me know.
> 
> The Linux VMs have OSS sound by default.  To get NAS support 
> either recompile from source or send me mail telling me which 
> platform.
> 
> As usual, if you have problems, please let me know via email 
> (or send to the list, but _please_ `cc:' a copy to me too so 
> I don't miss it).
> 
> Some of the sqXWin work required significant changes to the 
> old-style input code.  I've tested it for a few hours with a 
> couple of pre-event images (2.7 and 2.8), but there might 
> still be surprises lurking.
> 
> 3.2g/3.3a in a day or two (after some sleep ;).  Maybe even VMMaker...
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
>