Reporting back back Linux World... We got lots of positive feedback. Many were asking when there would be an Alpha release and we "guessed" it would happen in the next 3-6 months. I think the way things are progressing at this point that perhaps an October target date might be possible, perhaps be able to announce or even release it near the date of the Ohio Linux Fest and the next BeGeistert? We met many developers who expressed some interest but wanted to hold off until there was a stable system to work on. As for what should be on it, firefox, vision, pe, the development tools including svn, cvs, git, perl, and perhaps python if we can get them all working by then. Perhaps even check to see if some other things could be included such as niue, which would help developers. Also not sure how many of you have given the "box" program from tiltos a try out, but that might be something to think about adding to the project, that is if we can talk kaliber into it. It's handy for being able to quickly install missing libraries that have already been ported. It would also be cool if someone could write a gui front end for box in time for the alpha. To try it out: wget http://files.tiltos.com/tiltos-for-haiku/tiltos-for-haiku-1.zip unzip tiltos-for-haiku-1.zip -d / box -s It's the first thing i do when using a fresh haiku image, i get box and then box -i wput and a few other things that I use often. Maybe we should include wput into Haiku's bin folder? Handy little tool to have. As for tickets that should be bumped up to R1/Alpha, I think anything that needs updating to fix known security issues should be tagged/updated, such as libpng, see tickets 2018, 2193, . These should be easy to knock out though. Also consider whether any of these tickets sould be bumped up: 1429, 1444, 2231, 2522, 2523. so here's my list for including: firefox vision pe dev tools svn cvs git perl python OSS and maybe box and/or niue if we like them and can get permission from their authors -scottmc