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Haiku turns 25: from OpenBeOS's 2001 birth after BeOS's shutdown to today's Beta6 cycle. Discover the incredible story of this indie OS project.

TL;DR: The Haiku OS logo is one of the most recognizable symbols in the open-source desktop world. Revealed at WalterCon 2004 in Columbus, Ohio, alongside the project's new name, this simple yet elegant design has remained almost unchanged for more than t

The Haiku PowerPC port took an unexpected leap forward on 22 July, when a Haiku forum user who posts as omgmonsters opened a thread with a cautious title, "I have made some progress on the PowerPC port", and attached a screenshot. Five days later he publi

On the official forum, in the Help section, a user reports being unable to install certain packages. The error is always the same: nothing provides haiku=r1beta6_hrev59866_5-1 needed by package name. The first replies suggest dropping the HaikuPorts repos

For a year and a half the same ship sailed under false colors. The hull was Gecko, the cargo was Firefox, but the name painted on the sail said Iceweasel, because flying Mozilla's colors without permission is the fastest way to get sunk. On Wednesday 22 J

Halfway through their Google Summer of Code 2026, aquamatic123 has posted a progress report on the rework of Haiku's Devices application. Most of the work is about reading and surfacing hardware information that today you can only get from the terminal, i

Haiku's June 2026 activity report, signed by waddlesplash and published on July 13, gives the project the headline it has been waiting for. Beta6 has a date. The branch is due by the end of this week, the release is targeted for mid-August. Then you read

The official team works on the kernel, the base drivers and the system applications. Meanwhile, a lot of the interesting work is happening in personal GitHub repositories: an NVIDIA driver with hardware acceleration, a remote desktop you reach from a brow

TL;DR: Haiku's May report is full of stuff that makes you want to reinstall it tonight. It is also, if you read it carefully, the same old snapshot of an entire operating system hanging on a single person. Both things are true at the same time, and that i

Dario Casalinuovo isn't a name you'll easily find in mainstream search results, but his work has left a real mark on the history of Haiku and the BeOS ecosystem. From the OpenBeOS Media Kit to VitruvianOS, an ambitious project bringing BeOS DNA on top of