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Haiku OSNews July 9, 2026 2 min read

BeOS 5 Personal Edition Ships Free, Installable Right Alongside Windows

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.

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Haiku OSNews July 8, 2026 2 min read

Be Inc. Goes Public on Nasdaq Under the Ticker BEOS

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.

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Haiku OSHistory May 1, 2026 3 min read

The History of Haiku: BeOS's Second Life as an Open-Source OS

How a well-regarded but commercially unsuccessful 1990s operating system, killed off by an acquisition, was rebuilt from scratch as open source by the community that refused to let it disappear.

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