Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by BeOS, Haiku is fast and easy to learn but very powerful.

Dec 23, 2022 · Haiku is developed by a small group of volunteers & occasional contractors. To help with development and bandwidth costs, please consider donating, if you are able.We rely on your support to continue the development of Haiku into the future.

What is Haiku? Haiku is an open source operating system under constant development. Specifically targeting personal computing, Haiku is a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn, and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels.

To install Haiku, we offer stable release builds as well as nightly builds which are continually built by a cluster of dedicated machines from the latest Haiku source code.

2. This panel (depending on your hardware it can take a while to appear) lets you set the system language and keymap. Then you decide to either Install Haiku on a partition or Try Haiku by booting to the desktop directly from CD/USB drive. Choose to install Haiku for this guide.

Why isn’t it called HaikuOS? The name of the project is simply “Haiku”. Unfortunately, despite numerous attempts, the registration of haiku.org has not been possible; hence the reason for haiku-os.org. Where does the name Haiku come from? Haiku is named after the classical three-line Japanese poetry form.

discuss.haiku-os.org is a user and developer community based around the Haiku operating system.

Documents. A large amount of detailed documentation is available for users and developers. User Documentation. Haiku User Guide (work in progress); Haiku Welcome Page; Booting Haiku

Sep 13, 2024 · Haiku is developed by a small group of volunteers & occasional contractors. To help with development and bandwidth costs, please consider donating, if you are able.We rely on your support to continue the development of Haiku into the future.

Visit our project's website Haiku-os.org for the latest news and announcements. Getting to know the system. While the first release(s) of Haiku will be very much like the BeOS R5, the operating system it is reimplementing, there are many additions and improvements that were developed by the Haiku team over the years.