Desktop On Fire!

The monthly activity report covers the period between hrev59922 and hrev60059, the month in which R1/beta6 was released.

Haiku R1 beta6 is out, and for anyone who has followed this project for years, that’s simply a good day.

TL;DR: On August 18, 2001, the day after Palm’s acquisition of Be Inc. was announced, OpenBeOS was born.

TL;DR: The Haiku OS logo is one of the most recognizable symbols in the open-source desktop world.

The Haiku PowerPC port took an unexpected leap forward on 22 July, when a Haiku forum user who posts as omgmonsters opened a thread with a cautious title, “I have made some progress on the PowerPC port”, and attached a screenshot.

On the official forum, in the Help section, a user reports being unable to install certain packages.

For a year and a half the same ship sailed under false colors.

Halfway through their Google Summer of Code 2026, aquamatic123 has posted a progress report on the rework of Haiku’s Devices application.

Haiku’s June 2026 activity report, signed by waddlesplash and published on July 13, gives the project the headline it has been waiting for.

The official team works on the kernel, the base drivers and the system applications.