Haikuware News

Haiku was selected to participate in Google's Code In program.

Google's contest to introduce pre-university students to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible, is starting on November 22, 2010. We are inviting students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials and user experience research for the organizations participating this year. These tasks include:

Hello folks, please send/comment any nomination (with reason), you have for our upcoming Dec. Thank You Award - where we put shirts on the backs of developers

Here are the nominees for the 20th TYA:

After some generous donations to the Gutenprint bounty by community members, the goal of $2000 was reached today (well, $3.75 short *thanks Matt - please remember PayPal's fees when topping up your amount). At least the 50/50 plan and successful completion of the bounty worked for 1/3 bounties so far (never know until you try!) Thanks to all to the donors.

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3dEyes submits the results of testing BeZilla, WebPositive & Arora on Haiku using Google's V8 Benchmark Suite and then comparing these results with Firefox, Chromium and Arora on Ubuntu. The results seem to indicate very good performance of Arora in Haiku (with QTWebkit); with scores roughly four times better than the native browser WebPositive. Who said Qt on Haiku wasn't a good idea? It's also noteworthy that there's relatively little difference in performance running Arora with Qt on Ubuntu vs Haiku. Chromium on Ubuntu takes the cake though, blowing away everything else (although, we all know what Google Chrome is based on; a third party test would remove suspicion in this regard).

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