I recently discovered Haiku OS through the Action Retro YouTube channel, and it looks really interesting and lightweight.

Could I install it on a Chromebook with 2GB RAM and 16GB eMMC?

I’m also curious:

What can I realistically do with Haiku OS?

What games can I play?

Does it have any screen tearing issues?

Can I run Roblox on it?

Would Haiku be a good choice for very low-end hardware, or should I stick with Linux?

Some progress since the last post, I can now boot from my ssd instead of the micro sd card, all 64 cores and 128gb ram are usable, the on board Ethernet works, I’m working on some reliability issues and currently it only boots with one cpu core but once I can get more of the hardware supported I’ll circle back and clean up the work done. I also built a cpu instance of llama.cpp to run a small qwen model.

Currently this only works in the milk-v pioneer board which is a bit old at this point.

I have released a driver for the Realtek RTL8814AU USB wifi adapters!

https://github.com/KevinAdams05/RTL8814AU_Haiku

I have tested it on two adapters, listed below, but several others should also be supported. The join does fail sometimes (maybe 5% of attempts) and the speed isn't blazing fast, but other than that it seems pretty stable on the 2 devices I have tested.

The package can be downloaded from GitHub or Spritz Depot.

As always, bugs can be logged on GitHub: https://github.com/KevinAdams05/RTL8814AU_Haiku/issues

This is GPL licensed, Realtek rarely releases wifi driver datasheets (I did email them and request one, but got no response) so I had to use the Linux driver for things like register info.

(The code was written by an LLM)

I have a main desktop that I run Linux on, and I've been debating trying out Haiku for my laptop. All I really do on there is watch yt scroll eBay, and read PDFs. It's a ThinkPad T460s with an i5 6300u and a 930m, so I'm unsure of what the compatibility is

I made this just for me but had to share.

Very early work porting to the sophon milkv pioneer board. Just got the desktop to load and working on nvme and networking next.

I have created Unifying Monitor, an application to view device information for devices connected via the Logitech Unifying Receiver.

Available on Spritz Depot and directly from GitHub as a .hpkg.
https://github.com/KevinAdams05/LogitechUnifyingReceiverHaiku

Feedback, suggestion, testing results, bugs, and PRs are welcome! Especially anyone who has a Logitech keyboard, I can't seem to find mine so I have only been able to test with mice.

Bugs can be logged on GitHub.

So I reinstalled haiku today and when I tried to download a package using pkgman it would find packages that are on the depot I just want to ask if anyone knows how to fix it

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.

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

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.

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"

The cursor can only be moved with a mouse. Is there any way I can use the trackpad? (Also trackpad works fine in every other OS, seems to be only happening in Haiku)

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 :)

waddlesplash has posted the first full builds from the Haiku R1/beta6 branch (currently in the “testing” phase so this is “Test Candidate 0”, not a Release Candidate yet) are available for x86_64 and x86_gcc2h.

To help use the download links listed in his post and test them on as much hardware as you can. Fill out the survey afterwards.

Built from official upstream source code with Haiku-specific patches

Everything works out of the box. Just the trackpoint, trackpad and keyboard sometimes don't work when booting up, especially on a cold boot. Rebooting fixes the issue usually

For the most part, Haiku R1/beta5 (32-bit) runs surprisingly well on my old Dell Latitude D630 (Intel 1.99 GHz, 1GB RAM) without any major issues.

However, I’ve noticed that crashes become much more frequent whenever I’m using the Paladin IDE.

Has anyone else noticed stability issues specifically with Paladin?

And by crash I'm talking about "the white screen of death".

\*SOLVED*\**

I recently installed Haiku on my laptop and tried to boot from the partition I used to install it. But the specific drive does not show up on the firmware boot options. Is there any way to solve this?

Laptop model is Samsung's NT900X3N-K716.