[haiku-development] Re: Haiku alpha 1 release (draft)
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:58:06 +0100 CET
> On 2/4/08, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > * Think of a 'blocker' policy, e.g. when are bugs blockers?
> > > * Define what exactly is released: cd image? vmware image? qemu
> > > image? source?
> >
> > Distributions should always be released as CD image. We can think
> > about
> > additionally providing qemu/VMware images, but I don't think it's
> > that
> > important (as those are already part of the build farm).
> > The source is there anyway.
QEMU can just use the BFS image part of the CD.
> >
> >
> I dont know if you guys have seen PenDriveLinux (
> http://www.pendrivelinux.com/), but it's essentially a Linux distro
> on a USB
> flash device. For a majority of computer enthusiasts, this offers a
> much
> easier way to try Haiku without bothering with the partitioning and
> boot
> loader dance.
>
> Lets face it, a majority of motherboards designed in the last 5 years
> offers
> boot from USB device. Wasn't BeOS always about being a modern OS?
> Flash
> will replace platter based hard disks faster than most people think.
When USB and mass storage works it should be possible.
François.
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