The 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.

My goal was to install Haiku R 1/Alpha 1 on a GPT (GUID Partition Table) formatted disk that already held several operating systems. Along the way to success, I had various difficulties. The basic problem is that Haiku doesn't really handle GPT right now, but a GPT disk sort of looks like an MBR (Master Boot Record) disk, and the MBR table may or may not accurately reflect the actual contents. Luckily, there are tools and techniques available to make this work. This article describes the steps I took.

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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.

I once had a personal blog where I wrote some stuff about Haiku. The blog is now gone, but I kept some of the posts that I thought could still be relevant or informative even afer time. Being that we have had many new comers as a result of the recent alpha release, I thought I would rehash some of these posts for both the newcomers as well as anyboby else who may have missed them in the past. This first one is about Haiku logo; I hope you enjoy it.

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In 2003 early, myself and a few Japanese BeOS fans founded the Japan BeOS Network, JPBE in short, a community based user group created mainly in response to the resurgence of BeOS in the form of the ZETA operating system (which was being developed by the German company yellowTAB). While the enthusiasm of the community built around ZETA, I felt it was important to educate the Japanese community about Haiku (then still called OpenBeOS); so I decided to do an interview of Michael Phipps, Haiku's project leader in those early days. I am posting this interview here for historical purposes, but also because I think it may be useful to familiarize newcomers with the history of the project and in some way as a tribute to all Michael gave to Haiku during his tenure. Enjoy!

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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.



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).