Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

linguae

This is cool news. Given Apple’s history, there’s something rather interesting about Haiku, a BeOS clone, running natively on Apple Silicon, like stepping into an alternate universe. On another note, while I’m grateful for Asahi Linux, Haiku, and other efforts to bring alternative operating systems to Apple Silicon, I wish Apple provided more documentation. It took the Asahi Linux team tremendous effort to get its OS running on M1 and M2 Macs, and it’s still going to be a while until we see M4 and M5 Macs run alternative operating systems. macOS is a great desktop OS, but it’s nice having diversity, especially when the hardware eventually gets unsupported by Apple.

alterom

Amazing news. Haiku is such a wonderful project, and having it run on this hardware ensures that it stays alive. This incentivizes me to actually get an M1 Mac.

tomwheeler

Seems to be a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183579

pivoshenko

Damn that's sooo cool

QuercusMax

Does it run on other Apple Silicon macs? This article could have used another sentence or three.

Tagbert

Funny, I was just thinking about getting an old Intel Mac mini that I could use to play around with Haiku and a few other things. Maybe I’ll revisit those plans.