Haikuware News

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 developer that you feel deserves recognition?? Let us know...

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...)!