Haiku published their January 2026 status report to highlight the improvements they made to their open-source OS over the past month. Some of the January highlights for Haiku include:
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Completing the work around new touchpad functionality for Haiku. This work now allows for two-finger scrolling, edge motion, software button areas, and click finger support. Newer Elantech touchpads are now supported too.
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The Realtek rtl8125 driver has been synced with upstream OpenBSD for improving support for some newer networking hardware.
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Haiku has implemented more functionality mandated by the POSIX 2024 specification.
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Fixing some missing locking in the file panel constructor to fix broken open/save panel appearances throughout various apps.
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A disk image menu is finally added to DriveSetup so that disk images can be worked from that GUI without resorting to the command line.
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IPv6 support for telnet as well netstat.
“A disk image menu is finally added to DriveSetup so that disk images can be worked from that GUI without resorting to the command line.”
For me, the new DriveSetup hung during install.
Switching back to the main installer app let it get past whatever its issue was, and it completed the format.I loved BeOS. Haiku is not BeOS.
Its not even very much like BeOS. That being the case, I don’t quite understand why it exists.Here. Go read their confused mumble of an explanation.
https://www.haiku-os.org/about/
… Now, what did you get out of that?Like, if they just straight up said “We don’t like Linux or Mac, and want our own groovy icons”, I could get along with that rational. This vague bullshit about some higher purpose just sounds hollow and lacks meaning.
It was started by a former BeOs developer and has evolved from there. Haiku can run BeOs software that is binary compatible. It exists because they wanted they make their own Operating system.
