Haiku
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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal
computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn
and yet very powerful.
Goals
- Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
- Clean, clear, concise code.
- Unified desktop environment.
Trying Haiku
Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and
release images. Haiku is compatible
with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the
plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual
machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of
the "Emulating Haiku" guides.
Compiling Haiku
See ReadMe.Compiling.
Contributing
Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even
if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers,
(technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!
Contributing code
If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the
patch submitting guidelines.
If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use
one of our web-based source code browsers:
- https://xref.landonf.org/ (OpenGrok, provided by Landon Fuller)
- https://git.haiku-os.org/ (git, provided by Haiku, Inc.)
Contributing documentation
The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found
in the tree at docs/user). Just find an undocumented class, write
documentation for it, and submit a patch.
Contributing translations
See wiki:i18n.
Contributing software ports
See HaikuPorts.
Contributing to our infrastructure
See Infrastructure.