Do you want to hand out Haiku Installation DVDs to friends and colleagues? To help distinguish it from all the other DVDs that litter people's desks, we have a nice little DVD paper sleeve you can print out and fold yourself. Haiku DVD paper sleeve: US letter size (73 KiB PDF) Use this WonderBrush file (903 KiB) as a template for your personal sleeves. Please respect the Haiku trademarks, if you plan to distibute those sleeves.
HAIKU R1 Alpha 4.1 Release Notes These are the release notes for HAIKU R1 Alpha 4.1, a critical bugfix update for our fourth official release. For this fourth alpha release, we strove to provide an improved version of Haiku that is more stable, introduces more features for both the end-user and developer, and has a greater chance of properly booting on more hardware.
We have tried hard to make this release as good as possible.
Before Installing
Download Haiku Burning your Haiku CD Haiku on a USB flash drive Boot Loading Options Haiku supports booting via the traditional BIOS boot system as well as the more modern UEFI boot mechanism. See the UEFI guide if you plan to use UEFI, or your hardware doesn't support BIOS booting. Welcome to the Haiku installation guide! This document will help you install Haiku on your computer, guiding you through the Haiku installation one step at a time.
To create your Haiku Installation DVD, you need to burn the ISO or Anyboot image to a DVD. There are many different ways to burn an them to DVD. Shown below is a list of links to how to guides and/or DVD burning applications for various different operating systems. If you'd like to create your own DVD cover, we have instructions on how to print out and fold your own sleeve.
This document explains the artistic subtleties of Haiku icons. If it leaves something unclear to you, that is, what rules to follow when designing an icon for the Haiku operating system, please bring the issue to our attention. Existing icons should give you a pretty good idea what directions to follow. This document is meant to define the distinctive look in further detail and to be a useful resource in case of doubt.
div.content { tab-size: 4; -moz-tab-size: 4; } The document below outlines our code style guidelines. If you have suggestions for things that should be clarified better, etc. please let us know. Please don’t send us suggestions of the kind “I like this indenting style better, could we switch?”.
The information in the document below is extremely important. If you will be contributing code or patches to Haiku, you will need to strictly follow the code style guidelines.
Developers are the driving force behind Haiku, and without them, we would not be where we are today. It’s hard to put into words the pleasure of seeing something you’ve built help many other people. Newcomers will need to know or be willing to learn C++, as well as the BeOS/Haiku API.
Getting Involved The best way to get into developing on the Haiku project is to get to know the environment and make yourself familiar with the system.
I am a programmer and would like to help. Where can I get started? Do you have any easy introductory tasks for me? Do you have coding guidelines? How do I create and submit patches? What development tools do you use? Do you have a mailing list for developers? Do you have an IRC channel? How much space is needed to build Haiku? Why can't I create a ticket in Trac?
The Haiku Code Drive 2008 donation period is over now. Haiku fans from all over the world have shown an incredible outpour of support and donated a total of $7,765.67 in just two weeks ($7,472.42 net). Thank you so much to everyone!
The Haiku Code Drive 2008 donation period is over, but you can still show your support for the project by making a donation from here at any time.
This year for Haiku Code Drive, the student selection process has been completely overhauled. Unlike last year, where a public vote was held to select the students, our mentors have determined the combinations of <student>-<project>-<mentor>. Since our requirements for Google Summer of Code were greatly improved upon from last year, our mentors were able to confidently decide which of those combinations have the highest chance of succeeding. Full-text indexing and search tool for Haiku Student: Ankur Sethi Mentor: Rene Gollent Project Abstract A plugin-based, full-text file indexing tool for Haiku, similar in functionality to OSX's Spotlight, GNOME's Tracker and SkyOS's Index Feeder.
