BFS, the kit-based C++ API, and the pervasively multithreaded design behind BeOS's open-source successor.
A complete walkthrough configuring a printer on Haiku using the Print Kit's transport and driver add-ons, from adding the printer through to printing a real test page.
A complete walkthrough building a minimal windowed application using Haiku's Interface Kit and BApplication/BWindow classes — the actual starting point for any native Haiku app, GUI or not.
A complete walkthrough setting up Haiku's native WebPositive browser day to day — organizing bookmarks, configuring privacy and cookie behavior, and setting a sensible download location.
A complete walkthrough using Haiku's ProcessController Deskbar replicant to watch CPU load and memory usage at a glance, and dig into individual running teams when something is misbehaving.
A secondary drive or partition won't mount, or Haiku reports filesystem inconsistencies on a BFS volume. Here's how to diagnose the mount failure and run BFS's own consistency check safely.
An application crashes on Haiku and a debug report window appears. Rather than dismissing it, here's how to actually read what it's telling you and use it to fix — or usefully report — the crash.
Pages look broken, layouts collapse, or certain sites refuse to render properly in Haiku's native WebPositive browser. Here's how to isolate whether it's a page compatibility issue or a local configuration problem.
The first beta release of Haiku R1 arrived on September 28, 2018 — a milestone that had been anticipated for years, marking the project's transition from alpha-quality software toward an eventual stable 1.0.
Be Inc. gave away BeOS 5 Personal Edition for free, installable as a single file that lived inside your existing Windows or Linux system. More than 100,000 people pre-registered before it even launched.
The company behind BeOS — the operating system Haiku would later reimplement as open source — completed its IPO in July 1999, at the height of the dot-com boom, years before the open-source project this blog covers even began.