r/haikuOS

Andrea has just posted a thoughtful article that looks at all of Haiku's history. Interesting stuff for the curious.

The Haiku operating system turns 25!

The milestone achieved by the community of contributors to this open source project is remarkable. Bringing new life to a legendary operating system and ultimately outliving the original platform while continuing to thrive is a testament to everyone's dedication. Beyond the code, the incredible passion and support from the fans and users have kept this ecosystem vibrant, quite simply, you will never find another operating system with a community as fiercely devoted and passionate as this one! The entire development team and user base have accomplished something truly extraordinary!

BeOS lives on,

Through Haiku's eternal grace,

Passion without end.

ActionRetro has vibe-coded a PowerPC fork of Haiku!

The keyboard on my Dell Latitude has been slowly dying over the last few years, random keys keep dropping out, and lately even the power button has been acting up. Because of that, I'm dusting off an old Intel Mac mini that's been sitting around and going to attempt giving Haiku a spin on it instead.

Old keys fade away,

Mac mini wakes on the desk,

The first attempt begins.

https://preview.redd.it/31cah21ge5ih1.png?width=821&format=png&auto=webp&s=9a57050d4f0b4f8b8eb25dd04e2b88ce6b6b4b61

Hello, after a few years using Linux and a few months using FreeBSD, I became interested in testing Haiku in a VM. The installation went smoothly and I had no problems on the first boot after installation, but when I decided to update the system, this "package problems" pop-up appeared.

If I understand correctly, it's warning that certain software requires other software from a certain version onwards... But shouldn't Haiku offer these packages? Shouldn't the system updater handle this for me?

I looked in the Haiku User Guide and didn't find anything about dependency problems, at least not in the pages I read. If someone could explain how dependency management works in Haiku, I would appreciate it :)

Hello everyone - I have been trying to install Haiku on my fairly new laptop, to no avail. I was able to boot, the first three icons lit up but the process froze on the fourth one (the disk icon?). None of the safe mode options seem to help, and cursory glances through the debug log revealed nothing either. Does anyone have any ideas for troubleshooting? Thanks!

Specs:

CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 258V

RAM: 32GB LPDDR5

Graphics: Intel(R) Arc(TM) 140V GPU (16GB) (128 MB)

Storage: 1TB NVMe "WD PC SN7100S SDFPMSL"