Haikuware News

Sometimes when you start a poll, you kind of know the outcome before the poll even starts. Well, that wasn't the case this time. Personally, I thought it was a toss up between Wifi & KDE.

I think this time around we had very good participation for voting (128 votes) :)

More good news keeps on coming in...

Miqlas writes that we may no longer be stuck with the outdated BeOS version of VLC (0.8.6d), as 1.0.4 is now running under Haiku!

We're looking for nominees again for this round's Thank You Award. Please leave comments (and reasons) for who you think would be a good candidate!

Update: Thanks to Axel & Humdinger, we now have a healthy and difficult list to vote on :-D

Update 2: There was a bad start to this poll, as I used the last poll as a template which artifically added non-legitimate votes to the poll. I had to restart it about 15 minutes after it was published. Sorry to anyone that voted already.

Travis Reed - For his online Rapid Translation Utility.

Grzegorz Dabrowski "kaliber" - For his porting of KDE and applications such as KOffice.

Colin Günther - For the WiFi stack.

Jerome Duval - For his continuous work on audio drivers, and more.

Stefano Ceccherini - For his work on Terminal and BMenu.

Niels Reedijk - For all the administration and documentation stuff he is doing.

Adrien Destugues - For localisation

Alexandre Deckner - For his work on Tracker

Oliver Tappe - System admin

After years of not having an updated Office Suite in the BeOS/Haiku community, there is now one available!

Thanks in a large part to the QT porting team, Kaliber informs us that many KDE applications and KOffice are immediately available to Haiku OS users (GCC4 or GCC2 Hybrid) using the Box application in TiltOS... Additionaly, these have been ported: kchmviewer, kdeaccessibility, kdeadmin, kdebase, kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdelibs, kdelibs-experimental, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdepimlibs, kdepim-runtime, kdesdk, kdetoys, kdeutils, kdevplatform, kdewebdev, kdiff3, and many more.

Follow these instructions to install.