[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1/alpha decisions

Hi all

> What bugs me more is on how we are going to provide the alpha? Are we 
> going 
> to force anyone to build it from source, are we providing an ISO or 
> Live CD?

I think building from source is obviously not an option and I guess 
nobody really expected that. It wouldn't emobdy the goal of simplicity 
Haiku has at all. IMO the two ways to provide a release are clear: a 
live CD (preferrably one that can be burned without the need for two 
tracks meaning an attribute overlay for the ISO fs or maybe putting a 
BFS image inside the ISO track) and a disk image suitable for emulation 
and building live USB sticks. Live USB sticks do not require anything 
else than dd'ing the image directly to the USB media, and they are IMHO 
the easiest way of testing/installing Haiku on current hardware (that 
works today already BTW). For later releases we might want to setup a 
shop providing pre-built USB sticks with Haiku installed, but that's 
probably a bit too much logistics for R1/alpha1.

From the software side of things, one thing of the top of my head would 
be BePDF. How would you otherwise read that hardware spec you wanted to 
write a driver for? That has actually what happened to me ;-)

Regards
Michael

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