{"id":109312,"date":"2026-08-27T07:31:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=ac7289ad869075a72294063260c45296"},"modified":"2026-08-27T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T11:31:26","slug":"haiku-r1-beta6-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=109312","title":{"rendered":"Haiku R1\/beta6 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/145885\/haiku-r1-beta6-released\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: BeOS\/Haiku is always one of my favorite alternate timelines that you can actually experience.\nBeyond the fundamental neat of Be, the Haiku folks have been doing cool things informed by experiences of other platforms, and building amazing Be-ish package management schemes and whatnot. \nIt doesn't sound like there are ton of changes to B6 since whatever Nightly I currently have in a VM to play with, but the sign of progress and confidence is great.  I'm ever more tempted to try doing some real work on a Haiku box.<\/div><p>It&rsquo;s always a special day on OSNews when Haiku has a new release. While OSNews was founded in 1997, it wasn&rsquo;t until 2001, when Eugenia took over and relaunched the site, that we really got going. Eugenia came from BeNews, a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiedubs.com\/benews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">popular BeOS news website<\/a>, which shut down in the wake of Be, Inc&rsquo;s infamous &ldquo;focus shift&rdquo; away from BeOS as a general purpose desktop operating system. BeOS continues to have a special place on OSNews ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haiku-os.org\/get-haiku\/r1beta6\/release-notes\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marks the release of Haiku R1\/beta6<\/a>, the first official Haiku release in two years. As such, this new beta covers a monumental amount of progress since beta5, progress I&rsquo;ve reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/topic\/haiku\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">diligently<\/a>. The highlights of this new beta include a port of Firefox (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/145611\/mozilla-gives-haiku-permission-to-use-the-firefox-name\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including branding<\/a>) and many of its forks, much improve support for Qemu, a new memory allocated largely based on the one from OpenBSD, and improved support for various filesystems. Of course, there&rsquo;s a massive list of performance improvements, memory management changes, as well as a truly massive number of new application ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to note, as I usually do, that while these Haiku beta releases serve as patches of calm in rough seas, Haiku is generally stable and capable enough that using the project&rsquo;s nightly releases is usually a totally acceptable way of installing and running the operating system. If you&rsquo;re not comfortable running nightly releases, however, and haven&rsquo;t tried Haiku since the previous beta, you&rsquo;re in for a massive overall improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everybody loves Haiku.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always a special day on OSNews when Haiku has a new release. While OSNews was founded in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=109312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}