The recent announcement from Vasper about his WalterOS plans has invoked a lot of discussion on the Haiku mailinglist and OSNews. Following all the discussion Vasper posted an response on his blog in which he explains his views and feelings about distributing the Haiku system. Most importantly, Vasper writes that he will not release anything before Haiku reaches R1, also he states that he strongly feels that the Haiku team should create a set of rules for possible distributions.

Also on the distro discussion, Petter wrote a very nice piece about his thoughs on the matter, personally I share most of his views. I too think that it would be more wise to create easy to install application packs that bundle software. For instance there could be a ‘Development pack’, ‘Internet Pack (email, chat, ftp, bittorent and such), a pack with graphics tools or a ‘Games Pack’. This way there could be one base system with the most basic applications, lots of drivers, localization and a good package installer.

In the meantime, the Australian Haiku user group OzHug also proposed a distribution of Haiku. I can only hope that all this will benefit the Haiku base and will not create unnessecary duplications of the same thing.

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