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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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BFS, the kit-based C++ API, and the pervasively multithreaded design behind BeOS's open-source successor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How to Set Up Printing on Haiku
Match a printer's real page language and connection to Haiku's driver and transport, validate a test page, and isolate failures safely.
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How to Monitor System Activity with ProcessController on Haiku
Read ProcessController's CPU and memory indicators correctly, inspect teams and threads, capture evidence, and avoid destructive controls.
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Be Inc. Goes Public on Nasdaq Under the Ticker BEOS
Be Inc.'s July 1999 IPO placed the company behind BeOS on public markets during the dot-com era, before Haiku began its reimplementation.
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BeOS 5 Personal Edition Ships Free, Installable Right Alongside Windows
BeOS 5 Personal Edition launched as a free downloadable system that could live inside Windows or Linux, widening access beyond boxed releases.
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How to Use the Deskbar and Workspaces Effectively on Haiku
Configure Haiku Deskbar, app lists and tray, add the Workspaces applet, switch or carry windows by keyboard, and organize daily tasks.
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