A news tip from Andrea Bernardi at OsDrawer. It seems Ithamar Adema (aka Colacoder) has quietly begun work and submitted code for a Haiku wireless network stack based on FreeBSD's.

From the project's Wiki:

"This project aims to be a central repository for all work on ticket 1050, e.g. the ticket created on the Haiku site to track development of a Wireless stack for Haiku. Since there are several people interested in working on this, I thought it to be a good idea to create a central repository instead of messing about with the ticket system too much (which is cool, but not really meant to do development in ;)).

If anyone has ideas, patches, or even finished code, please contact me.

Colacoder (aka ithamar)."

A Haikuware bounty for the wireless stack currently exists with >$500 USD in the fund.

Ithamar is also looking for help with the project...

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In other news, Anton Sokolov reports that he was able to build AbiWord on Haiku. A binary hasn't been released yet.