Persistence(New Deal), pointers&Linbot(site maintenance)

[dufrp@oricom.ca]

Because New Deal is also orthogonally persistent?
The demo of New Deal impressed me about 1 year ago,
truely it is able to do some nice stuff with few
ressources. And if you tell me it is persistent, I'll be
even more impressed. However that's commercial stuff and
this alone is enough to let me away of it.
But how does it influence the system, is persistent bug a
reality, does menu come with a "don't save" option? :-)

That's a long time ago I ask myself how GC and persistent
do treat pointers. I means you have to know what is a
pointer. In a Lisp language it is quite easy to know what
is a pointer but in a OS, how do you follow the pointers?
One way to achieve that that come to my mind is to have a
pool of pointers and each time an application want to
allocate something return it a pointer in the pool.
That's quite the way Mac have done it since the beginning
if I am right. But I feel there is a simpler or better
way, is it?

Well, Linux Debian is slowly installing itself, I love
the Lynx browser, gcc is working, mail is hard to
configure (said to exim I was a satellite, and still need
to learn to use fetchmail), have cvs, need to learn to
use it (have curves to help me), have python, forth, etc.
Now I have seen the Linbot package (search 'linbot' with
/ in dselect), it looks like something that could help
maintain the web pages, that is find the broken links
daily if you want and give an html report.





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