Haiku Activity & Contract Report, August 2024 | Haiku Project

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This report covers hrev57901 through hrev58042.

R1/beta5 was of course released just a few days ago, and many (though not all) of the changes in this report made it in to the release.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2024-09-17-haiku_activity_contract_report_august_2024
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A lot of changes that lead up to the release of R1B5, congratulations to all involved, big thumbs up! :+1:

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Thank you everyone for your hard work.

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Wow,that was really a busy month with lots of changes :+1:
Oh,and I am mentioned there for the first time,I guess I’m famous now :star_struck:

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#First

Ahoy Niklas !

Ayye’, you are famous now !..
If you don’t avoid yourself you’ll get into an interview questions with Andrea and you can easily find yourself in that situation to talk about … how you’d

“Unleash the Power of Desktop !” :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

:cowboy_hat_face:

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#Second

Thanks for the hard work !

I was interested how those many patches - I’ve seen on Gerrit - would be going to be reported in a written blog post … and now : it had turned out !.. It was a long list also - explained !..

Apropos, explanation :

- What the heck is “S3 bucket” ?
Is it some server storage way ? or a container-like stuff ?

(I would be appreciated if such terms described in the report or just after there.)

Howaver, I would mention the followings …
Yepp , I’m one of those guys who experienced huge network download speed acceleration … however not generally … and not since August, but lately.

Foe example
I have even 7-8 MB/sec dl speed in some cases in Falkon recently, however GNOME Web with the same source worked in KB territory and not some hundreds , bur under 100 KB/sec.

Also packages downloaded max. 1-2 MB/sec speed, I admit they comes overseas, and once package validation with minisign will be resolved we might have European haiku repos … and then I can compare it more fairly.

It is not complains - just facts from me –
Besides these above … I’m happy with observed acceleration, I just remark
it is still not equally general. Apps do not handle / use it equally and plain use from OS is not remarkable for first sight.

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I surely wouldn’t decline if he asks me for an interview :smiley:

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Very great news about the progress for haiku.

You mentioned some work for PowerPC and Arm64 (@ Apples Silicon M1). Is there any information how to install and run this virtualization on the M1?

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So far, Haiku on ARM64 doesn’t boot to the desktop and you can’t actually install it.

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