Hmm, strange title isn’t it ;-)

• According to IsComputerOn the next to come BeGeistert should take place in Dusseldorf / Germany from October 10th till the 12th, more information here.
• Looking for a cool Haiku wallpaper ? Check this out.
• Donating Squads ? In a mail sent to the Haiku mailing list Humdinger explain his idea. He would like to see people engaging together to donate recurringly a small amount of money to Haiku. Want to participate to the funding effort ? Have a look in Haiku’s forums here.
• BeGroovy tells us that the good ol’ Icon Tarot returns from malfunction.
• Again on Haikuware.com, the 6th Thank You Award has started: Stephan Aßmus, Niels Reedijk, and Ryan Leavengood are on the list for this edition. Read more and vote here.
• Oliver Tappe benchmarked our network stack just to see where we are compared to other mainstream OSes. Depending on test scenarios Haiku ranges between same speed to 20 times slower than the others. Oliver concludes by saying “haiku’s network stack currently shows far-from-perfect, but certainly acceptable performance“. All results, discussions and explainations can be found in this thread.
• Also a new blog entry on Haiku-os.org. Emitrax updates us about bonie++, a file system benchmark suite for Haiku.  Waiting for patching for XSI semaphore implemantation, we should be able soon to stress test our filesystem in order to enhance reliability and stability of that system part.

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