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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by draegtun on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:28AM (#7317830)
>Rebol 3, though open source, is still in alpha, and has no Linux GUI support yet

Just to note that the first beta version of the Linux GUI for Rebol 3 was released a couple of weeks ago - http://atronixengineering.com/downloads.html

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by einhverfr on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:12AM (#7317932)
How could I miss this? Awesome!

Edit: It looks like that is Saphiron's repo, not the main one, so still waiting on it becoming an official build, I see :-P

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Re:In Praise of Perl 5 by draegtun on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:42AM (#7318013)
Yes that's correct. Atronix efforts have been towards producing 64-bit versions + the Linux GUI from the Saphiron code base (which was 32-bit and Windows GUI).

Here's the Atronix announcement - http://rebol.info/altme/105/announce#msg0688

I believe you can consider this as the official build for Rebol3 View/GUI because Saphiron took over the RebGUI/R3-GUI project from Rebol Technologies.

But yes some of the Rebol 3 Core stuff that Saphiron/Altronix have done do need merging back into main open source core [1], which itself as moved on from the Saphir codebase (Saphiron Rebol build) [2].

[1] - https://github.com/rebol/rebol

[2] - https://github.com/saphirion/saphir

Also see Rebolsource repo where lot of the community changes go before merging back into [1]. Ref: https://github.com/rebolsource/r3 | http://www.rebolsource.net

PS. I know that you're aware of some of this info. Posting for the eyeballs of others :)

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