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["Nev" <Nev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael

As a keen follower of the development of Haiku when do you think a normal 
run of the mill  end user like me might see
something that we can work with.

Thanks
Nev


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Phipps" <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:14 AM
Subject: [openbeos] Re: OS Zoo


> I saw the posting on OSNews, too. And it sounds like a good idea. But, as 
> Axel
> and Marcus said, not now.
>
> To be honest, even the unofficial builds are a little scary. Because we 
> want to
> be different. Like Be was different. Did you ever get a Be release that 
> showed
> poor quality? Not that you weren't happy with the features or something, 
> but
> that crashed all the time? Or where you sort of shook your head and asked
> yourself if anyone looked at it before it went out?
>
> To be honest, we have all seen other OSs that were pretty sorry in their
> shipped state. No one is really innocent. It is pretty easy to point 
> fingers,
> for example, at Windows ME or Mac OS 6 multi-finder. Open source has not 
> much
> better track record, to be honest. There have been lots of cases where OSS
> stuff has stunk up the place. Haiku should be better than that. We should
> release something that makes people say "WOW! Where did that come from? 
> Where
> can we get more!?!?!?!?!" That is our vision. That's why we don't have a
> "release candidate .0001alpha". We could. There are lots of OSS systems 
> out
> there that aren't as good as Haiku is today. But we want to do something
> better. :-) I know that it is hard to be patient. Probably no one is more
> impatient than I. :-D But anticipation makes the wait worth while.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 2006-01-29 at 21:30:51 [-0500], Mat Hounsell wrote:
> > OS Zoo got a mention on OS News today.
> > OS Zoo hosts qemu images of free operating systems, some still 
> > pre -release
> > like Haiku.
> > That's were I got a ReactOS image that reale piqued my interest.
> >
> > Since we have qemu images it might get us a lot more interest, especially
> > from those who think it is still a pipe dream.
> >
> > http://free.oszoo.org/submit.html
> >
> > Submission Guidelines
> >
> > Every contribution is really much appreciated, but it would be better to
> > follow some guidelines in order to provide a standard way to collect,
> > distribute and use the images.
> > Creation Rules
> >
> >     * Create a large disk image. 10 GB should be enough. Even if large, 
> > the
> > image file will occupy just the dimension of the data present in it 
> > (thanks
> > to the qcow format), so after creation the image, even if large, will be 
> > just
> > a few Kb
> >     * Use the qcow format for the images: qemu-img create -f qcow 
> > image.img
> >     10G
> >     * After creating the image, create a compressed clone of the image:
> > qemu-img convert -f qcow -c image.img -O qcow image_compressed.img
> >     * Rename the compressed image. Use something appropriate (for 
> > example,
> > openbsd_3.8.img)
> >     * Put the image inside a directory having the same name of the image.
> > Create a README file and fill it with your name, email, date, notes 
> > (don't
> > forget to add root password and other information you think users should 
> > know)
> >     * Tar the directory but DO NOT COMPRESS it again. The tar file should 
> > be
> > named as the directory (i.e.: openbsd_3.8.tar). If you want you can add a
> > timestamp in the format yyyymmdd (i.e.:openbsd_3.8_20051001.tar)
> >
> >
> > Submission Rules
> >
> >     * Please, DO NOT SUBMIT OPERATING SYSTEMS that can't be 
> > redistributed!
> >     * Create a .torrent file for the file you've just created. Be suse to 
> > use
> > http://www.oszoo.org:6969/announce as tracker.
> >     * Send the .torrent file as attachment to marinell@xxxxxxxxxxx . 
> > Please,
> >     DO
> > NOT SEND IMAGES as attachment, even if small
> >     * Wait for the confirmation. The .torrent will be manually added to 
> > the
> > tracker so it may take some time. Once done you'll be authorized, start
> > sharing the file using the oszoo tracker. The seeder on the oszoo server 
> > will
> > immediately start to download and reshare the file.
> >     * After being checked, the image will be published on the oszoo 
> > server and
> > you'll be credited as creator and maintainer of that image
> >
> >
> > http://haiku-os.org/
> >
> > http://matgeekau.blogspot.com/
> > http://matgeekaupolitcial.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
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