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Haiku's Boot Process: From Boot Loader to Desktop
A stage-by-stage guide to Haiku boot, from BIOS or UEFI handoff through packages, kernel initialization, launch_daemon, and recovery.
#boot#haiku#kernel
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Conceptual, architectural explainers — how a subsystem actually works underneath.
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Device Drivers and Hardware Support in Haiku
How Haiku's device manager matches modular drivers, builds a node tree, publishes /dev interfaces, handles removal, and limits support claims.
#drivers#hardware#haiku
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The Haiku Kernel: A Modular, Pervasively Multithreaded Design
A source-grounded map of Haiku's kernel: teams and threads, virtual memory, IPC, scheduling, modules, system calls, drivers, and debugging.
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Haiku's Kit-Based API: Application, Interface, Storage, and Media Kits
How Haiku's native API is divided into cooperating Kits, with shared conventions for messages, ownership, status codes, linking, and threads.
#api#kits#haiku
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Live Queries: Searching Haiku's File System Like a Database
How Haiku BQuery combines BFS indexes, typed predicates, BMessenger updates, saved searches, and defensive state reconciliation.
#live-queries#bfs#haiku
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The Looper/Handler Pattern: Message-Passing at the Core of Every Haiku App
How Haiku BLoopers own dispatch contexts, BHandlers receive typed messages, BMessengers cross threads, and locking preserves state.
#looper-handler#api#haiku
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The Media Kit: Real-Time Audio and Video in Haiku
How Haiku's Media Kit connects producer, consumer, filter, control, and time-source nodes using negotiated formats and shared buffers.
#media-kit#audio#video
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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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