Documents

A large amount of detailed documentation is available for users and developers.

User Documentation

• Haiku User Guide (work in progress)
• Haiku Welcome Page
• Booting Haiku
• Installing Haiku
• Updating Haiku
• Virtualizing Haiku
• Troubleshooting

Developer Documentation

• Haiku Book
• Human Interface Guidelines
• Icon Guidelines
• Haiku internals' documentation

Legacy Documentation

BeBook and Be Newsletters

These are legacy BeOS documents released as reference material for those who want to familiarize themselves with the BeAPI and Haiku programming in general. Both the BeBook and the BeNewsletters are released under permission from ACCESS Co., the current owners of all the BeOS intellectual property.

• The BeBook
• The Be Newsletters
• The OpenBeOS Newsletters

Other Resources

• Practical File System Design with the Be File System, by Dominic Giampaolo
• Programming the Be Operating System, by Dan Parks Sydow (written against the older BeOS API circa R3/R4)
• The Art of BeOS Programming, by Shin-ya Koga (in Japanese)
• BeOS: Porting UNIX Applications, by MC Brown
• Writing Video Card Drivers in BeOS, by Rudolf Cornelissen
• Master thesis on the WLAN stack, by Colin Günter (plus a diagram of Haiku’s network init)

Contributed Articles

The Haiku community has contributed a large number of detailed articles over the years, be sure to check them out!.