The QT4 library port team consisting of Evgeny Abdraimov, Anton Sokolov, Gerasim Troeglazov have won this round of the Thank You Award- Congrats! With it, some interesting applications have already been shown to run well such as the QT Demo Browser/Arora Web Browser, and Kadu IM application. The problem now is figuring out how to divide a shirt between three. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to ask the three to draw straws, as the fund's balance will be enough for just one more Thank You Award after this round; donations anyone??

We'd also like to thank the other participants in this poll. Sometimes the poll is biased towards the end user. Of course, without the contributions of the other devs, we wouldn't have a stable Haiku OS, or a QT4 framework...

*Update - thanks to some generous donations in the last couple hours, we'll be sending all three members of the QT4 port team a Haiku Golf Shirt!

In the coming days I'll be taking down the 'Haiku Wifi Bounty' donate-o-meter' and replacing it with a Thank You Award one. I'd like to raise enough funds to continue the project for at least another year, which would require 6*37.50 = $225 minus whatever the current balance will be after awarding these prizes - stay tuned!

We've had several donations to the Thank You Award fund, and it now sits at over 100% of the goal, so we'll have enough to see 2010 through (unless of course teams or groups win the award and multiple shirts have to be given). In any case, thanks to all the contributors, previous participants and voters! Looking forward to 2010.

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Nvidia has confirmed it will release a version of the Ion GPU (graphics processing unit) compatible with Intel's new Pine Trail Atom platform. The new chip, which will reportedly boost performance substantially, will arrive during the first quarter of next year, adds the Engadget website....

Netbook shipments are expected to total 33.3 million units by year's end, for a year-over-year growth of 103 percent, says DisplaySearch. But in 2010, growth will slow to less than 20 percent, thanks to the new breed of notebook computers with ultra-low voltage processors and sub-$500 price points, the research firm adds....

Colin writes up a summary of his work on Haiku's Wifi Stack and our bounty's guidelines in his blog. He also talks about the future of the project, and the possibility of support for encrypted networks within a year :)

Colin went beyond the bounty's guidelines. He finished it early, and not only made all the drivers compile, but execute as well. The following is a list of all the drivers supported:

• aironetwifi supporting at least
  • Cisco Aironet 350 Series
  • Aironet PCI4500
  • Aironet PCI4800
• atheroswifi supporting almost every chipset outthere (though no AR9285 chips)
• broadcom43xx supporting
  • BCM4301, BCM4306, BCM4307, BCM4309, BCM4311, BCM4312 and BCM4318
• iprowifi2100 supporting the 2100 chips
• iprowifi2200 supporting
  • 2200BG
  • 2225BG
  • 2915ABG
• iprowifi3945 supporting the 3945 chips
• iprowifi4965 supporting the 4965 chips
• marvell88w8335 supporting
  • Marvell Libertas 88W8310
  • Marvell Libertas 88W8335
• marvell88w8363 supporting the 88W8363 chips
• ralinkwifi supporting
  • RT2560
  • RT2561S
  • RT2561
  • RT2661
• wavelanwifi supporting at least
  • 3Com Airconnect
  • GLPRISM2 WaveLAN
  • Intersil Prism3
  • Intersil Prism2.5
  • Linksys WDT11
  • Netgear MA301
  • PRISM2STA WaveLAN
  • Siemens SpeedStream
  • SMC 2602W
  • Us Robotics 2415
  • Addtron AWA-100 PCI

An interesting read...

Also, he has submitted an easy to install Intel (1000, 5000 & 6000 series) wireless driver with firmware here (no encryption).

On be half of the Haiku community, and bounty program, I'd like to thank Colin for his work, timely and fulfilled execution of the bounty, and general professionalism. It was a pleasure seeing this follow through.

Thanks!

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