> >> >Considering at least R1 will have the R5 kernel, then you can still use > >> >the R5 ones. > >> > > >> >-Bruno > >> > > > >Errr ... since when were we planning on using the R5 kernel with R1? The > >goal is to make a complete replica of BeOS R5 in an open-source environment > >by R1 ... I haven't heard that we were going to be booting from the orignal > >R5 kernel. Of course for awhile we're going to be replacing each component > >piece-by-piece without using our new kernel, but whatever we call golden > >master should not have any code from R5. > > > >> > >> This is not quite correct. Everything PRIOR to R1 uses the R5 kernel. I.e. > >all of the beta releases. R1 == new kernel. > >> > > > >This makes it sound like the kernel is going to skip past the beta releases, > >which I hope isn't the case =) > > DOH! > > Of course not. :-) What I wanted to say was that the beta releases would work with > the R5 kernel (and not necessarily all of them). I forsee something like what happened with BONE - > betas of new kernels coming out, bundled with the pieces that are inextricably tied to it. BONE came > with BoneYard, for example, and should have come with a new printing kit. Our kernel might > well come with a new IK, since the old IK was joined unnaturally to the old kernel. IK??? david