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Haiku OS Logo: The Untold Story Behind the Iconic Design

TL;DR: The Haiku OS logo is one of the most recognizable symbols in the open-source desktop world. Revealed

Haiku Runs on a PowerPC Mac: Five Days for a Goal Twenty Years Out of Reach

The Haiku PowerPC port took an unexpected leap forward on 22 July, when a Haiku forum user who

Holding the packages together as Beta6 approaches

On the official forum, in the Help section, a user reports being unable to install certain packages. The

From pirates to privateers. Mozilla signs the letter of marque for the Firefox name on Haiku

For a year and a half the same ship sailed under false colors. The hull was Gecko, the

Haiku Devices App: aquamatic123’s GSoC 2026 Midterm Progress

Halfway through GSoC 2026, aquamatic123 reworks Haiku's Devices app with readable USB, driver, and Bluetooth diagnostics — no terminal required.

Haiku Aims for Beta6 in Mid-August, But June’s Report Reveals Serious Bugs

Haiku OS targets beta6 for mid-August, but its June 2026 report reveals serious bugs in NVMM, EFI loader, and I/O scheduler that could corrupt data.

Haiku OS 2026: The Most Interesting Independent Projects Outside the Core

The official team works on the kernel, the base drivers and the system applications. Meanwhile, a lot of

Haiku in May: AVX-512, a Raspberry Pi 5 that almost boots, and the same old uncomfortable truth

TL;DR: Haiku s May report is full of stuff that makes you want to reinstall it tonight. It is

An Interview with Dario Casalinuovo: From BeOS to VitruvianOS

Dario Casalinuovo isn t a name you ll easily find in mainstream search results, but his work has left a

DarkWyrm Speaks: The Man Behind Paladin, libcharlemagne, and a Generation of Haiku Developers

Jon Yoder — known in the community as DarkWyrm — wrote Haiku s reference IDE, a programming course still

Communicating Without Internet: Haiku OS, MeshCore and an App That Smells of Venice

When a 90s operating system meets LoRa radios and the result is better than you d think TL;DR: There s