On 2009-06-23 at 14:28:41 [+0200], Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2009-06-23 at 12:02:59 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > In any case, I am using Haiku for all my daily work except for when I want > > to play a game or absolutely need Flash to work in a website. It runs > > without any issues except for the occasional disappearance of e-mails which > > I keep on the IMAP server anyways. My personal feeling is that the ballance > > of annoying and embarassing issues versus a smooth experience has tipped in > > favor of doing the release sooner rather than later. I would like to know > > what other developers and users think. > > For me mails disappearing is a show stopper. You're certainly right that > even if all known file system bugs have been fixed, there might still lurk > unknown ones under some stone (or leaf), but knowing that my mails will get > lost frequently and need restoring from the backup is at least a major > inconvenience and not inspiring confidence at all. But just because Stippi is experiencing these problems, it can not be followed that this will happen to your mails, too. I am using haiku as mail-OS since several months now and I have not seen any of my mails disappear. Then again - maybe I just didn't notice ;-) Seriously, though - I think there's a big difference between releasing an alpha version and making sure that a software is good enough to deal with precious data. At least for me, an alpha release does not have to be reliable. Anyway, even with the mentioned bugs, I personally think haiku is doing very fine for alpha quality software, so let's set the bugger free, soon. I'm fine with switching to the ATA busmanager, too. cheers, Oliver