> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > A lot of people play with the nightly builds and when they realize > > that > > what they downloaded is a barebone OS with not apps, they ask > > around > > where they can get apps to make the OS more usable, and they are > > always > > told to download the OPs from Haiku Files anyway. > > Yes, it's an unfortunately situation. > > We really should have a page where people can "get the extra stuff" > without having to go through much fuss... > > It's even trickier without a browser already included in the nightly > builds. > > IIRC, ReactOS provides a small app that can "download firefox" which > basically grabs the latest firefox build directly from mozilla.com > (regardless of version I think) - maybe we should bundle something > that can do that - although that's coming really close to package > management ;) They provide a few other "known-working" apps that > users > can download as well using that method. Well we can always clone CheckItOut into GetItOut ;) François.