Hi Doug, thanks for your input.
The installer is really the only part left to test in depth. It mostly worked for beta 16. As for the hardware, how many times do you need to be told "If it works today, with eCS, it will likely work with ArcaOS", possibly with a few pleasant surprises.
Only one problem here we don't have eCS (ACP2 for us) and all I know about its installer is what I have read here and things I have gleaned from the eCS 2.2 DEMO iso which almost worked on one of our workstations.
This is why I have been concerned by the dearth of information available. It also makes me wonder I we will have to 'roll our own' bootable CD/DVD just as we did in the past.
I am not sure that the new, Arca Noae patched, kernel will be available that way.
Now that is
very interesting. What is it patched for becomes the obvious question but I suspect that you are not allowed to divulge that information.