Get Haiku!

Current Version Information

  • Version: R1/Alpha 2
  • Release date: May 10, 2010
  • Computer platform: x86-32
  • Important: Post Release Addendum

Here you will find information on how to get Haiku, by either downloading the latest official release or purchasing an installation CD from the Haiku Store (not yet available). If you choose to download an image, please select from the list of available mirrors below.

The Anyboot images are experimental, but are the preferred distribution format. They can be written directly to a USB flash drive, empty disk, or written to CD/DVD media. They can also be used directly from QEMU. The ISO image can be written to CD with your usual CD burning application if you experience issues with the Anyboot images. The VM is a fixed size hard disk image to be run in VMware or VirtualBox. Any of the image files can be used "live" or used to install Haiku to another disk/partition of your choice.

Download Locations

NOTE: Not all mirrors may be populated yet. Please choose another mirror if you encounter a failure.

Location Anyboot ISO VM Speed Provided by
North Carolina, United States Anyboot ISO VM High iBiblio
Illinois, United States Anyboot ISO VM High OSUOSL
Brussels, Belgium Anyboot ISO VM High BELNET
Stockholms Lan, Sweden Anyboot ISO VM High Stockholm University
Queensland, Australia Anyboot ISO VM High AARNet
Paris, France Anyboot ISO VM High LIP6
Nuernberg, Germany Anyboot ISO VM High Computerbetrug.de
New York, United States Anyboot ISO VM Medium RIT
Heraklion, Greece Anyboot ISO VM High University of Crete / Computer Center
Illinois, United States Anyboot ISO VM High Reflected Networks
Lund, Sweden Anyboot ISO VM High The Computer Society at LU & LTH
Milan, Italy Anyboot ISO VM Medium ContactLab
SourceForge Auto-selection Mirrors Anyboot ISO VM High SourceForge
If you can help our project by providing a download mirror for Haiku, we would like to hear from you. Please contact Urias McCullough to make arrangements (login required).

Torrents

In order to assist with distribution, we have also created .torrent files that can be used to download and seed the release files for others. Please continue seeding the torrents if you can!:

Checksums

To make sure that you have got the right file and that it has not been corrupted during file transfer, it is always wise to ensure the integrity of your download. To that end, you can use the MD5 checksums shown below to verify that what you have is the correct file.

7a22bc78ec21af0f2eaa11b2f043c2bd  haiku-r1alpha2-anyboot.zip
6f2ad0326832925da34e2a9a3170897a  haiku-r1alpha2-iso.zip
baab8cabfb13d96160929b9c8e8b1172  haiku-r1alpha2-vmdk.zip

If you are in Mac OS X or Linux, you can use the md5sum command from the Terminal to generate a checksum for your downloaded file and verify against those above. If you are in Windows, you can use MD5summer, which you can download from here; there is also md5sum.exe for Windows, a version of MD5Summer that can be used from the Windows Command prompt.

Haiku CD from the Haiku Store (Alpha 2 CD not available yet)!

We are hoping to have an R1 Alpha 2 CD in the Haiku Store by the end of the month.

Acknowledgment

We thank all the organizations and companies who provide the server space and bandwidth to mirror our releases.