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Haiku's Package Management System Goes Live
Haiku's packagefs-based management arrived in September 2013, replacing extracted installs with activated HPKG files and reversible states.
#news#haiku#packagefs
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Haiku R1/Beta1 Ships After Nearly Six Years of Work Since Alpha 4
Haiku R1 Beta 1 shipped on September 28, 2018, moving the project beyond its alpha series with package management and broader hardware work.
#news#history#release
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Haiku R1/Beta 2 Ships in the Middle of a Global Lockdown
Haiku R1 Beta 2 shipped on June 9, 2020 with accumulated system, application, hardware, and compatibility improvements after Beta 1.
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Haiku R1/Beta 4 Closes Out 2022 with Broad Stability Work
Haiku R1 Beta 4 arrived on December 23, 2022 with another broad round of hardware, performance, application, and compatibility improvements.
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Haiku R1/Beta 5 Ships as the Project's Most Polished Release Yet
Released September 13, 2024, Beta 5 closed out nearly 350 bug and enhancement tickets, added a full GDB 15 port, and brought USB audio device support to the system.
#news#haiku#release
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Why Haiku Isn't a Unix Clone (and What That Actually Means)
Why Haiku is a BeOS-compatible system with NewOS kernel roots and native Kits, despite its POSIX APIs, shell, ports, and Unix software.
#architecture#haiku#unix
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Packagefs: Instant, Reversible Package Activation Without Unpacking
How Haiku packagefs presents HPKG contents, preserves writable shine-through directories, activates consistent states, and enables rollback.
#packagefs#package-management#haiku
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Linux Capabilities: Fine-Grained Privileges Beyond root and setuid
Understand Linux capability sets, exec transitions, file attributes, systemd and container boundaries, with a least-privilege audit workflow.
#capabilities#security#kernel
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Fixing a Corrupted ext4 or XFS Filesystem with fsck
The correct order of operations for repairing a corrupted Linux filesystem, and what to do when the repair tool reports it can't fix something automatically.
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Fixing High Load Average on Linux When CPU Usage Looks Normal
Load average climbs while top shows idle CPU — this usually means processes stuck waiting on I/O, not CPU; here's how to find which one.
#fix#performance#io
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