Haiku on Early Intel Macs
A BeOS-derived modern OS
First assembled: 25 February 2023
Latest update: 14 September 2024
PURPOSE
This is a placeholder WikiPost and thread for installing, running, and discussing Haiku on Early Intel Macs.
It’ll be up to everyone else here to enrich and improve on this thread for running Haiku.
Haiku is, in short, an open-source project to carry through key UI elements of the short-lived, pre-OS X PowerPC operating system BeOS, which quietly came to an end sometime in 2001. OpenBeOS, the initial and original name for Haiku, got underway at this time.
WHY?
I blame Action Retro (in the best possible way) for wanting to entice MR forum members to try testing and running Haiku on their Early Intel Macs — especially those model which lack a 64-bit EFI and/or cannot easily boot into versions of OS X beyond either Snow Leopard or Lion (at least, not without a lot of problems).
[Or if you’re reallyup for a challenge a masochist, you could try running BeOS on a pre-G3 Power Mac.]
Along with flavours of Linux and OpenBSD, Haiku may offer a viable way to keep using (or at least tinkering with) your old MacBooks and MacBook Pros, Mac minis, and Mac Pros.
THIS IS SILLY.
Probably! And even more silly is as of the striking of this WikiPost, I haven’t even tried Haiku myself. But maybe you have, and you might be able to share some useful resources and links to communities and repositories online to run software written for Haiku.
For now, I’ll leave things here.
GETTING STARTED
Haiku Release 1/Beta 4 (23 December 2022)
Haiku Release 1/Beta 5 (13 September 2024)
A BeOS-derived modern OS
First assembled: 25 February 2023
Latest update: 14 September 2024
PURPOSE
This is a placeholder WikiPost and thread for installing, running, and discussing Haiku on Early Intel Macs.
It’ll be up to everyone else here to enrich and improve on this thread for running Haiku.
Haiku is, in short, an open-source project to carry through key UI elements of the short-lived, pre-OS X PowerPC operating system BeOS, which quietly came to an end sometime in 2001. OpenBeOS, the initial and original name for Haiku, got underway at this time.
WHY?
I blame Action Retro (in the best possible way) for wanting to entice MR forum members to try testing and running Haiku on their Early Intel Macs — especially those model which lack a 64-bit EFI and/or cannot easily boot into versions of OS X beyond either Snow Leopard or Lion (at least, not without a lot of problems).
[Or if you’re really
Along with flavours of Linux and OpenBSD, Haiku may offer a viable way to keep using (or at least tinkering with) your old MacBooks and MacBook Pros, Mac minis, and Mac Pros.
THIS IS SILLY.
Probably! And even more silly is as of the striking of this WikiPost, I haven’t even tried Haiku myself. But maybe you have, and you might be able to share some useful resources and links to communities and repositories online to run software written for Haiku.
For now, I’ll leave things here.
GETTING STARTED
Haiku Release 1/Beta 4 (23 December 2022)
Haiku Release 1/Beta 5 (13 September 2024)
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