Waiting for a potentially perfect product will do more harm than good in my opinion. You loose the interest of the non-coding community over time who has the greatest potential to spread it. LiveCD’s did this for Linux I believe, it’s how I got into it and how I spread it to my friends who use it now (and yet there’s constantly updates in Ubuntu). I say just release LiveCD’s and wait and see what happens, you may gain more developers and a larger fan base.
Maybe that would be a good idea if they actually worked properly yet 
I’m a lurker. Got tired of the security issues and commercialism of Windows(had to pay for almost all program). Was forced to leave Gnu/Linux when the 2.6.24(I believe) kernel no longer supported my sound card or touchpad out-of-the-box…with any distro. I’m now using PC-BSD(I like the program installer–similar to the ONLY thing I liked about windows) and I am just waiting for Haiku to finish so I can switch to this. I have never used BeOS before, but it was an amazing system for its time according to all the features I have read about it. Keep up the good work.
I’ve been lurking since Haiku was still OpenBeOS…I’m so excited about the pace of development. I’ve been waiting for years !
I’ve used R5 and leaved it when I upgraded my PC to 1Gbit of memory (the classic bug)…
I hate using Zeta because a paid product is less exciting !
YAL, (yet another lurker). I have been very impressed with the progress Haiku has made; although it still seems along way from being done. It would be nice to see Haiku out soon, but the only thing that really matters is that Haiku be done RIGHT when it does come out. When Haiku is available I will celebrate by buying a new dual processor, multi-core, system to run it on.