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So far things are going rather well. Aside from some lib hell here and there most of the application testing is going rather well. Surprisingly a larg

http://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/Haiku Compatible Logo   Hiaku is looking at a program to help ease some of the problems of developing a new operating sys

Q1: How old are you and what do you do to pay the bills?

This time/round I'm on top of things! Please send/comment any nomination (with reason), you have for our June Thank You Award. Have you seen recent

Normally, the Alpha have been met with mixed sucess, obviously there are lots people interested in Haiku. Well the next Alpha is due to drop sometime

Well, my favourite way to check Haiku's latest commits is now down indefinitely. CIA.vc has been retired by the owner. It was a great service and prov

We recently noticed Michael Lotz (mmlr) has been quite busy committing to Haiku lately. We thought an interview would be timely, and thank Michael for helping explain what he's been up to in such great detail! The interview:

#1 - We've noticed a flurry of commits from you recently regarding ACPI and IRQ tables/routing. Could you please explain if this will help close ticket #5, and help Haiku realize proposition #4 from Haiku's 'must have R1 features' poll? Also, perhaps translate into plain English what it is you've done? :)

What I've done is finish implementing IO-APIC support that I started implementing back in 2008. Back then I only implemented programming of the actual IO-APIC controller, but not the required mapping between PCIinterrupt pins and the IO-APIC inputs. While the IO-APIC basically worked since then, it wasn't usable at all because the essential information, i.e. what pins are physically connected to what inputs was simply missing.

A two week poll has decided that the $2002.09 gathered from an incompletely finished bounty (Wifi Encryption), and an expired bounty (TV Card Support) should be forwarded to Haiku Inc. to be put towards a work contract that will further Haiku's development (it was also interesting to note there was strong support to see Gobe Productive v3.0 on Haiku).

Haiku Inc. have been awarded funding for eight students by Google's Summer of Code! Read more about it.

Scott McCreary (scottmc) will pick up this month's Thank You Award. Already previously included in past polls, he narrowly missed winning a couple of times and is well deserving of the prize! There wasn't enough nominee input  (except for unanimous support for Scott) to hold a poll, so Scott was selected. The list of contributors to Haiku is pretty small, and we've awarded a fair number of prizes already :)

Hello folks, please send/comment any nomination (with reason), you have for our April Thank You Award. Have you seen recent work done by a Haiku dev

I'm very proud to announce that now we haveOpenAL native sound support for Haikuports.haiku-files.org/ticket/366Thanks to GCI student yeputons and Dav

Regular Haikuware readers will know that two of our bounties recently expired; the TV Bounty & partially completed Wifi Encryption Bounty. According to our rules, contributors had a week to claim a refund and 15% was subtracted and added to the Thank You Award. That time has passed, and the funds were collected and put into a 'General Fund'. The amount available: $2002.09!

Haiku isn't really very well supported on Macs. There was one bug in particular that prevented some Haiku users from using Haiku on their Macs (at least to some degree). Ticket #2654 described how the keyboard would be unavailable for Intel Mac users, so that they couldn't even select safe mode options to try to boot Haiku. As of r41117, this has been fixed so that Haiku's advanced boot menu options can be accessed (it took two years to commit this working patch...)!