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14th Thank You Award Results

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 11:00

The QT4 library port team consisting of Evgeny Abdraimov, Anton Sokolov, Gerasim Troeglazov have won this round of the Thank You Award- Congrats! With it, some interesting applications have already been shown to run well such as the QT Demo Browser/Arora Web Browser, and Kadu IM application. The problem now is figuring out how to divide a shirt between three. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to ask the three to draw straws, as the fund's balance will be enough for just one more Thank You Award after this round; donations anyone??

We'd also like to thank the other participants in this poll. Sometimes the poll is biased towards the end user. Of course, without the contributions of the other devs, we wouldn't have a stable Haiku OS, or a QT4 framework...

*Update - thanks to some generous donations in the last couple hours, we'll be sending all three members of the QT4 port team a Haiku Golf Shirt!

In the coming days I'll be taking down the 'Haiku Wifi Bounty' donate-o-meter' and replacing it with a Thank You Award one. I'd like to raise enough funds to continue the project for at least another year, which would require 6*37.50 = $225 minus whatever the current balance will be after awarding these prizes - stay tuned!

14thTYA
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FireFox 3 Under Haiku

Sunday, 29 November 2009 11:15

Based upon a very shoddy translation Italian>English by Google, haiku-os.it reports that Xeon3D has discovered that FireFox 3 compiled for BeOS, and before Cairo was mandatory, runs fine on Haiku.

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There's some benchmarking against Arora, but I don't really understand the translation. View the translated article here.

If you want to try this Firefox 3 'Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 "you can download it from BeBits (download).

 

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14th Thank You Award

Wednesday, 25 November 2009 12:38

We're collecting nominees for December's Thank You Award. If anyone would like to add someone, please leave a comment below.

So far we have:

Jérôme Duval - For applying patches sent in by others and keeping elemental stuff like bash, coreutils, libpng, wget and other packages up-to-date.

Jonas Sundström - Polishing of Haiku: Backgrounds, Zip-O-Matic, Workspaces, Deskbar Preferences.

Scott McCreary - For his great work on HaikuPorts and esp. for rebuiling almost all Optional Packages needed for
alpha1/r1.

Vincent Duvert - For creating the fantastic translation tool for the user guide at http://userguide.haikuzone.net

Evgeny Abdraimov, Anton Sokolov, Gerasim Troeglazov - For their work to bring the multi-platform framework Qt4 to Haiku.

Polling will begin on Nov. 27th.
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Wifi Config Tool - Ready for Testing

Monday, 09 November 2009 08:18

wifiThe second deadline for the Wifi Bounty is next week, as such, Colin has released the the Wifi Config Tool for testing! It can be downloaded here at OSDrawer.

So what are its features?
  • Scan for available WLANs
  • Join a WLAN (no hidden WLANs though)
  • Show the WLAN you are connected to

The corresponding commands are printed out by issuing the command "wlanconfig help" in the terminal.

After downloading and unpacking the wlanconfig zip, you install it by executing the install.sh script.

To use wlanconfig to its full potential you have to download and install the latest atheros driver, too.

When reporting bugs: http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/haiku-wifi/issues/new (you have to be logged in) please append the output of getsysteminfos.sh installed with the latest atheros driver.

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Haiku Alpha CDs Now Available

Wednesday, 28 October 2009 14:30

Off Haiku's webpage, Haiku Alpha R1 CDs are now available to purchase. Costing $20USD, $15 of the cost will go towards Haiku! Get your copy from CafePress:

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