In about a month from now, I'll be giving a sort of google-esq tech-talk at my employers office in Indianapolis. My goal is to drum up some interest in the project to a highly-geeky group of people with free time looking for something challenging, fun, and fulfilling to do (unlike our day job). I'll cringe the minute someone asks me about GNU/Haiku.
IMO (which is worthless to just about everyone else) It's a nice idea to make a Haiku distro that people can try, but it should be developers trying it out. These are people who are competent enough to figure out how to make a build, or have enough interest to learn how to do a build by themselves -- which negates the need to make a distro.
If it was 1.0, or even late beta, I'd be all for it. But without Haiku being able to build Haiku, I think it's a bit early for something like this to actually be useful.
As you pointed out Cian, double-edged sword.That's my thoughts, but hey -- if this guy wants to spend time to make a distro, and then clearly labels it so it's not just "Haiku", then more power to them.
-Bryan Cian Duffy wrote:
On 12/03/07, *Ryan Leavengood* <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:I'm not sure if this is a good thing. The code is still of alpha quality for many components, and people could get a bad impression of Haiku by running a buggy build. This is of course the reason no one onthe Haiku project has made something like this yet.Not -quite- as bad as images being on the front cover of Linux Format (25K+ print magazine) over 8 months ago at this stage, however. But its still too early for the mass market, even the geek mass market, to be be using it. Although it may pull in a few more interested people -publicity is forever a double-edged sword.Cian -- ------------------------- "We're busy running out of time"
