"Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Something I suggested a couple of years ago (in a private mail I > think), was that R1 is not really the best name for the first release > of Haiku we're currently heading towards. It is not where we want to > be > by any stretch of the imagination, yet the phrase "R1" has certain > contations of completion about it to my mind. Somethnig like R0.5 > would > maybe be seen as insulting to all the developers after the amount of > work they put in however. Maybe abandon the R thing altogether. The R thing just means "release", nothing more, nothing less. It will be our first release, and hence the name :-) > How about something like "Haiku Preview Release (codenamed Walter > :D)"? > Interested people will find out more, try it, develop apps or > whatever, > but joe user would be put off. Interested people would instantly know > that it is not a product we're particularly happy with as a finished > OS, but would see enough positives to keep them intererested. If your Joe user would have been interested in BeOS 5 years ago, he won't be disappointed with what we have to show. But the average Joe user won't look at Haiku R1 nor Haiku R2, I'd guess - unless it's a relative of one of our brave users or developers, of course :-)) Bye, Axel.