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Haiku
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**[Homepage](https://www.haiku-os.org/)
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| [Mailing Lists](https://www.haiku-os.org/community/ml)
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| [IRC Channels](https://www.haiku-os.org/community/irc)
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| [Issue Tracker](https://dev.haiku-os.org/)
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| [API docs](https://api.haiku-os.org)**
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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal
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computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn
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and yet very powerful.
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Goals
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* Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
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* Clean, clear, concise code.
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* Unified desktop environment.
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Trying Haiku
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Haiku provides pre-built [nightly images](http://download.haiku-os.org/) and
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[release images](https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku). Haiku is compatible
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with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the
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plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual
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machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of
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the ["Emulating Haiku"](https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/) guides.
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Compiling Haiku
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See `ReadMe.Compiling`.
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Contributing
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-------------------
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Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even
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if you can't write code, *you can still help*! Haiku needs designers,
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(technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!
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### Contributing code
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If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the
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[patch submitting guidelines](https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/CodingGuidelines/SubmittingPatches).
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If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use
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one of our web-based source code browsers:
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* https://xref.landonf.org/ (OpenGrok, provided by Landon Fuller)
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* https://git.haiku-os.org/ (git, provided by Haiku, Inc.)
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### Contributing documentation
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The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found
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in the tree at `docs/user`). Just find an undocumented class, write
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documentation for it, and [submit a patch](https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/CodingGuidelines/SubmittingPatches).
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### Contributing translations
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See [wiki:i18n](https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/i18n).
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### Contributing software ports
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See [HaikuPorts](https://github.com/haikuports/haikuports/).
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### Contributing to our infrastructure
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See [Infrastructure](https://github.com/haiku/infrastructure/).
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