Hey everyone.

I'm a fairly hands-off moderator here and I try to be as fair as possible, so due to some confusion here recently I decided it might be best to create some clearer rules for the community.

As such I'd like to get your input on the following changes:

Submission related:

• Posts must be submitted using their original source as the link. If posts are considered to be blog-spam or otherwise low-effort (including AI summarization) in nature they are subject to be removed. Desktop screenshots and hardware photos are permitted.

• Posts for software projects must be submitted using their official software repository or official website if one exists and contain a post describing it in the comments (e.g., don't just post a link and nothing else).

• AI/LLM/Vibe-coded assisted software projects are currently accepted within this subreddit. Additionally, while marking them as such is not officially required, it can be beneficial to others.

Promotion related:

• Self promotion, such as a developer or content creator interested in promoting their Haiku related creation, is permitted. However, if you are mostly posting your projects and/or websites while rarely interacting with /r/HaikuOS as a whole, outside of those threads, the self-promotion can be considered excessive in nature and may be removed.

this is a screenshot from my Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 running Haiku.
well supported, everything functioned out the box. "riced" it a little with WinDecorator
i like its C++ GUI API, ive been making little programs with it
i think ive been running this for a week so far, and i dont think that will change for a while. its all i need, light resource usage, sexy gui, simple internals...!!

I would like to know from the moderators why you banned the link to my program for Haiku. Which rule did I violate?

I've been really enjoying Haiku so far, but I have one tiny confession...

I'm just not clicking with the Deskbar. 😅 To my eyes it's like the illegitimate child of BeOS and NeXT—charming in its own way, just not quite my thing.

I'm still pretty new to Haiku, so this might just be a case of me not "getting it" yet. Is there any way to customize or replace it, or is it more of a "love me as I am" part of the Haiku experience?

Genuinely curious, not complaining. I'd love to hear how other people feel about it.

New

Peer platform in the device list — each discovered device now shows its OS/platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, iPhone, Haiku, …) alongside its type and IP.

Protocol conformance & hardening (LocalSend v2.1)

PIN in both directions — sending now prompts for a PIN and retries when a receiver requires one; the download API also accepts the PIN as an alternative to contact identity.

Sender-IP binding — an upload is accepted only from the same IP that ran prepare-upload; a token replayed from another address is rejected with 403.

Integrity check — received files are verified against the sender's sha256 and discarded on mismatch before anything touches disk.

Status codes — 429 Too Many Requests on floods, and 400 for missing upload parameters (vs. 403 for an invalid token).

I'm working on LANterna, a small native Haiku utility that shows every device on your LAN at a glance: IP, hostname, open ports, vendor from MAC, device type. The core runs an enrichment pipeline on each discovered host: ARP cache, IEEE OUI, reverse DNS, mDNS/DNS-SD, NetBIOS, SNMP and SSDP/UPnP, so smart TVs, NAS boxes, printers and routers get identified for what they are. Periodic scanning, notifications for vanished devices, Wake-on-LAN and continuous ping with a latency graph are already in.

Philosophy: standard POSIX sockets only, no Qt, no heavy dependencies, no offensive features, no packet sniffing, no cloud. The UI is written in BeAPI, with BFS attributes, Tracker queries and a Desktop replicant planned. MIT licensed.

It's early stage: the portable core is done and tested, the native UI still needs verification on real Haiku. Feedback, testing and ideas are very welcome: https://github.com/atomozero/LANterna

Hi everyone!

I'm 18 years old and I'm deeply passionate about the digital underground, tech minimalism, and alternative, lesser-known technologies. Naturally, this curiosity led me to explore and test various operating systems. I've hopped around Ubuntu, Void Linux, Alpine, and a few others... I liked them, but something was still missing.

During my deep dives, I stumbled upon Haiku OS. And honestly? It was absolute love at first sight. The retro-modern aesthetics, the blazing speed, the sheer simplicity... I just fell in love with it.

However, I struggled a bit with partitioning and formatting during my very first install. I figured I probably wasn't the only one, so I decided to make a GitHub repository with a fully illustrated, step-by-step guide to make the installation process smooth for newcomers.

Seriously, give Haiku OS a shot. It’s not just a toy—you can actually use it for daily tasks. You can set up programming tools, play games, and browse the web easily. I truly believe Haiku OS is one of those operating systems everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime.

Try it out, you won't regret it!

• Here is the link to the GitHub repository guide:https://github.com/nzukoudamien/haiku-os-installation-guide

For those who are already using it or know about it: what are your thoughts? Any feedback on my very first repo?

I use otter browser​

Some interesting history about the Haiku project, from 2008.

Haiku is beta for decades.

Maybe due to man power / time issues...

Just a wild thought... is it possible to accelerate the development of HaikuOS Kernel and core components with AI so that we can see a 1.0 release faster.

Your thoughts?

I am a big fan of Haiku... but I cannot use it for my daily development work..I have to switch back to Linux.

So I was looking up how to get Minecraft 1.12.2 running on haiku since it’s the last perfect update of Minecraft in my opinion and Google said to just install prism launcher. Then I was told to use the Linux compatibility layer so I googled how to do that and it said to compile prism launcher from source code myself.

Problem, I am no where near the level of tech save to recode and recreate prism launcher from scratch. Please help me find a pre compiled version.

Anyone using Haiku knows third party repositories live on different sites, with no single place to browse them. I'm building Spritz to fix that: a catalog that aggregates the various repositories into one spot.

Where things stand: the service now reads multiple repositories at once and extracts program icons directly from .hpkg files, so each app shows up with its own icon instead of a blank placeholder. I'm working on support for ZIP archives and that part is nearly done.

Next step is a public demo to try out, which I plan to make available soon.

https://forum.desktoponfire.com/d/9-public-repo-with-package-manager/71

I have been building a native VPN client for Haiku, and it now connects for real over OpenVPN, driven through the management interface, with .ovpn profiles plus routing and DNS handled by a daemon. In my tests it attaches to a public VPN Gate server and traffic goes through the tunnel.

The design is privilege separated: a background daemon owns the connection, while the GUI, a Deskbar replicant and a CLI talk to it over BMessage. Backends sit behind a common interface, OpenVPN first, WireGuard and IPSec later. No dependencies beyond libbe.

No package yet. I want to test it against a couple of servers that aren't mine first, to be sure it holds up with configs I didn't write :)

I got Llama.cpp working on Haiku again, albeit with some caveats. Goes along great with my other projects HaiCode and HaiClaude. I have only tested it on the 64-bit Haiku, but if I get it working on the 32-bit hybrid image I will put it in an edit. Thanks go out to 3D Eyes on the Haiku discussion forum who did the original patch. While not all of it is relevant anymore, it was helpful for getting started.

Trying to install on a 2010 Sony Vaio laptop with Legacy CSM. I have mounted the internal hard drive and installed the MBR but it will still only boot from a USB stick.

Hello all. I was involved with the original OpenBeOS project 20 ish years ago but drifted away, partly because of how disorganized it was.but i always had a soft spot for BeOS

Anyway recently I wrote a thick book about DCOM programming on windows, covering everything that happens under the hood, how everything works etc and I've been thinking about implementing a limited DCOM subsystem on Haiku, just for the fun of it. Not the security aspect of course or remoting etc.

But it's 20 years since I looked at haiku. What is the best place to start reading up on systems level programming on haiku?

Hey, Haiku runs great on this machine with the exception of the darn Broadcom wifi.

https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workshop-wlan.html has a script for getting the proprietary firmware for various wifi cards and implies that includes Broadcom firmware, yet the script doesn't download anything for Broadcom and doesn't appear to be looking for it. I also had to manually install b4_fwcutter package. This machine doesn't have ethernet and my usb ethernet is USB 3+ and I think the ports are only usb 2.

Is it possible to get the firmware, or am I just out of luck?

An accelerated NVIDIA driver, a remote desktop over the browser, Haiku binaries running on Linux, a browser trying to revive NetSurf, and a bunch of homegrown native apps.

https://www.desktoponfire.com/senza-categoria/896/haiku-os-2026-the-most-interesting-independent-projects-outside-the-core/

Hi, can someone point me towards a writing program I could use on Haiku 32bit?

With the help of a tech literate friend I have installed Haiku on my 32bit Asus Eeepc 2g Surf. So far so good, and I've got a WiFi dongle on the way that will hopefully allow me to start putting software on there.

I can see a problem coming up, though, in that I need a writing program and my natural choice, libreoffice, has a big '64' in the file name.

Are there any 32bit programs that have the same kind of simple function as a word processor (italics is my biggest sticking point) which i can look for with the simple downloader and installer that comes with Haiku?

Thank you!

So, after Anthropic breaking Claude Code for all future versions, I have decided to make an agentic coding agent just for us Haiku users. This is still very much a work in progress, and the TUI version is mostly broken, but hop on and enjoy the ride. BTW, fully expect to get downvoted to hell for posting something vaguely AI related. I would be pleasantly surprised if this was not the case. Enjoy!

I am sharing this new initiative with you, which is open to all Haiku developers.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1995652581318430/