Spotted this just now over at the Haiku site, posted by Koki. Tucked away in his basement, with enough provisions to last him till Christmas, Axel has been, as usual, a busy bee, and he's been working mostly on the Network Stack, building here, changing there, improving yonder (I knew I would use that word oneday).

Thanks to (but not exclusively of course) a recent commit, himself and other devs/testers, have been able to get the stack up and running and able as well to use the IRC client (which I love) Vision, as can be seen in the screenshot below (taken from the Haiku site for bandwidth purposes). Instructions on how to get the stack going were also posted by Axel. I've said before, but great work as usual Axel. I for one will be tossing a teddy bear down the basement stairs on Christmas Eve for this. Awesome.