> 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 With the Haiku logo? I'll have two!! :) > 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 > > -- MVH Fredrik Modéen