20080417206 | Haikuware Superpack Adjusted

Haikuware's Superpack for Vmware has been renamed and adjusted to comply with Haiku's Distro Guidelines. It will be now known as 'Senryu'.

Senryu is a form of short poetry, like a Haiku, in fact, they're so similar, people have trouble telling them apart. "Senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haikus are serious".

There'll be two versions:

1) Developer Edition
2) Personal Edition

The Developer Edition contains pre-built build tools, Haiku's sources, plus some applications developers may find useful. The image cuts down the need to download gigabytes of data (it's only ~135mb), and saves hours of time figuring out and building an environment by having a pre-built environment that's ready to use immediately - 'it just works'.

The personal edition also contains Haiku's build environment (minus the sources), but has more applications on it that may be of more interest to the end-user. It is meant to demonstrate Haiku's capabilities.

Both images have support for video, audio, network and burning out of the box. We will try to update the User Edition weekly, while the developer edition will be updated less frequently; as needed. There's still a bit of work to do regarding licenses and copyrights, but we'll resolve this soon. Both versions are immediately available. In addition, we'll once again, provide Virtual Box, Qemu, and Parallels images, but these won't be maintained.

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MaxOS said:

	Hmm... interesting.
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April 17, 2008
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mikedoth said:

	That was a quick turn around, I think i'll download it tonight
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thenerd said:

	would this now qualify as the first guideline compliant distro? I know Pingwek had a Haiku distro but I don't think it was compliant.
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karl said:

	I think it is, as far as I can see, all the guidelines have been followed
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thenerd said:

	if all the guidelines aren't followed, it won't be long before someone mentions it
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tarma said:

	Seems the only problem they have so far is the name. How about calling it "Hobbit"? (processor the BeBox prototypes used)
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thenerd said:

	Hrmm never thought of using Hobbit but we already have a new name picked out so we should have that up tomorrow.
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karl said:

	Damn, that would have been a good idea, but it's too much work to change everything again. This is the third time!
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April 18, 2008
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thenerd said:

	Turns out the new name is a little more "interesting" than originally anticipated
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