Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Apr 2008 09:30 UTC
As of Late, the Haiku project has been making some major steps forward, most notably the ability to 'self host', one of the most important milestones for the upcoming alpha release. In addition to development progress, Haiku is also making a name or itself in the Free software world in general, by attending conferences, for instance. Last weekend, Haiku was present at the LugRadio Live USA 2008 event, held in San Fransisco.
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Fair enough. I'd really like to see more sites (including Haiku's) start using OpenID for this type of stuff - then no matter where you go, you just authenticate with your single OpenID from <insert_preferred_openid_provider> and not worry about registering everywhere.
Still, please understand that it's in the interest of everyone to report any issues you have and help the Haiku project volunteers to help make it better for testers and end users.
Don't get me wrong - I fully agree with you. The problem is simply that Haiku LiveCDs currently suck, and provide a somewhat disappointing experience. I didn't even mention above that hardware support is still an issue. Sometimes the kernel/drivers simply can't find the CD/BFS image and die in the middle of booting. There are still problems where SATA controllers screw up the original IDE driver, and there's a new IDE driver in the works (ata) but it doesn't have ATAPI support yet and only works in PIO mode still.
Thus, long story short (too late?) - Haiku isn't ready to be distributed via LiveCD yet.