[haiku-development] Re: Busted!

Zaranthos wrote:

*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro*
There are also other people, like myself, who have wanted an easy way to use Haiku for years. A bootable CD release has been talked about for years. Until it actually happens it's just more talk. I've waited so long I won't believe it until I see it. I had Haiku running on a laptop well over a year ago as the main OS. It ran very stable on that machine. But if you want to actually help by reporting bugs or hardware issues you have to have an easier way to update. That's not a problem if you're a developer and build it yourself. If you're less of a developer, or just don't have the time to build and install continually, then it's not a good option. As a project Haiku has held itself back by trying to get things too perfect before making a release that's community friendly. That delay kills off some of the old and faithful community members. Too much attention has been paid to the reasons not to release a CD.
Nicely said. I'd also like to add that a month ago we had a Russian guy who was going to install Haiku onto 1000 laptops a month. We will miss those opportunities if we keep messing around.
It's time to get serious about reliability. I'm not the project manager here (in fact, who is since M. Phipps left?) but if I were and some developer told me to build in Linux I'd tear him a new asshole. 

But then, as everyone keeps pointing out, I'm not a nice person. ;-)

Rob

Other related posts: