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* De-escalate the severety of data loss from "high risk" to "risk". * Remove the advice to not create partitions with DriveSetup. It's been tested and been working well since the last alpha. Do recommend making backups of all partitions. * Remove description how to add Haiku to Grub. It's too much detail and the user would have to memorize the info. Add a link to our Booting guide instead. * Mention BootManager as an alternative to boot Haiku, refering to the Userguide for more info. * Alpha -> Beta * Only give normal thanks instead of "a lot" and don't beg to like us. Sounded a bit desperate... Change-Id: I212513fde01287f5d1c9c5c9891827aaf0b7e1ea Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/502 Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com> (cherry picked from commit 1edc131debcf8ea1c9cd9eafd41c356f0432d9a5) Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/508
Haiku
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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.
Goals
- Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
- Clean, clear, concise code.
- Unified desktop environment.
Trying Haiku
Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and release images. Haiku is compatible with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of the "Emulating Haiku" guides.
Compiling Haiku
See ReadMe.Compiling.
Contributing
Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers, (technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!
Contributing code
If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the patch submitting guidelines.
If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use one of our OpenGrok servers:
- http://xref.plausible.coop/ (provided by Landon Fuller)
- http://code.metager.de/source/xref/haiku (provided by MetaGer)
Contributing documentation
The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found
in the tree at docs/user). Just find an undocumented class, write
documentation for it, and submit a patch.
Contributing translations
See wiki:i18n.
Contributing software ports
See HaikuPorts.
Contributing to our infrastructure
See Infrastructure.