Well they were both bootable debian's that run on the tablets..

The point is the guy who seemingly put out beta3 is one of the guys working on nit-debian.. which logic would then seem that if he was able to get sound working in beta3.. even if you start from scratch.. the same thing should work to get sound working in the next release, no?

Where the did the initial image in the beta series come from?? it had to start from scratch at some level did it not?

And when you move from beta-x to beta-x+1 .. a "cleanup effort/future proof solution" is typically what it's about .. you always cleanup previous beta problems while fixing the flaws.

The reason I call it beta4 is that both the beta series and the nit-series have the same guy working on it.. even though the nit-series has a few more people on the project; and a lot more enhancements since beta3.