[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1/alpha decisions
- From: Fredrik Modéen <fredrik@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:17:59 +0200 (CEST)
> 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
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