[haiku-development] Re: Reminder: R1/Beta2 - Work begins end of Aug.
- From: "Simon Taylor" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "simontaylor1" for DMARC)
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:22:26 +0100
On 21 Sep 2019, at 00:48, waddlesplash <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 4:01 PM Alexander von Gluck IV
<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Anyone wanna help out on #14805, #14961 to help us get to the R1/Beta2
branch?
Are there any blockers missing on R1/Beta2?
Yes, two I just added: one is a pretty bad boot regression vs. beta1
(fix already submitted, needs to be retested); the other is the "can't
boot off USB3" ticket. It would be really unfortunate if we released
an OS that 80+% of hardware will not run out of the box.
I’d also suggest some docs about how to best setup VMs for Haiku, and perhaps
even specific virtual machine config files for the VMWare / VirtualBox / any
other common
ones. At least with beta 1 I guessed at some VirtualBox settings but clearly
didn’t guess
very well as it had super slow drawing performance on a recent MBP.
Humdinger’s done great work on the user guide when you get it up and running,
but I felt
the release announcement could have had some more user-friendly tips on how to
get to
that stage. Perhaps a “How to try Haiku in a VM” and “How to try Haiku
natively” sections,
with the latter suggesting USB boot if the USB3 boot issue can be fixed by the
release.
Simon
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