The Haiku OS project turns 5 today. Back in August 2001, Michael Phipps "founded" the open source replacement for BeOS, called OpenBeOS, on the mailing list.

In 2004, the name was changed, in order to avoid infringing on Palm's trademarks (now owners of BeOS). The new name was influenced by an official community vote and was then revealed at WalterCon, the US-based Haiku annual conference.

Five years on and Haiku now boots on real hardware to an accelerated desktop. It can run many R5 applications, has a network stack in post-alpha (soon to be beta), and can performed tasks via USB that R5 could only dream of. It's stability increases week by week and should be capable of replacing R5 and going beyond in the not too distant future.

Please find the link below to download the latest HD Image built from the source.

Haiku HD Image (x86)
(13.25 MB)

Please note, these Images are for *** Test Purposes Only ***. For a copy of the Full license, please refer to the source.

For the Instructions on what to do with the Haiku HD Image, click here. For alternative downloads, click here.