FOSDEM 2026 has taken place 31st of January to 1st of February. Anybody was there or watched live videos?
Anything interesting from Haiku point of view?
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We had no stand this year, but mmu_man and KapiX had a “birds of a feathers” session about “what are you missing in Haiku?”.
I don’t know how popular it was, as I wasn’t there.
I hope we will have a stand again next year. Of course, coming with a new beta would be helpful for that!
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Visited shortly on Saturday, mainly for stopping by the KDE stand (since Haiku didn’t have a stand), but did have some 1 on 1 talks with visitors that had heard about Haiku (also from last year).
So there still is a crowd there we can still target and reach out to.
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I was there. It was my first time visiting FOSDEM. Fortunately, the room was not as crowded as other rooms. It was very nice to meet and talk with some people in real life who care about Haiku-OS. mmu_man and KapiX took some notes about what people think is missing in Haiku-OS to become a daily driver. As far as I remember nothing really new about the requests, e.g. 3D acceleration, Raspberry PI, RISC-V. The note did not get to everyone that there is a RISC-V version available. Interest in Haiku-OS is still there but certainly muted. People are people still willing to check each new beta release on their (in many cases old) hardware.
There were no other Haiku-OS events I knew of at FOSDEM 2026.
I liked the skiftOS talk, FOSDEM 2026 - skiftOS: Building a microkernel-based operating system from the ground up . To quote the creator: “skiftOS is a hobby project I’ve been building in modern C++ for over 6 years now.”
It has no real connection to Haiku-OS, it is great for what it does, it has a very long way to morph into something more than a learning environment.
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“Available” is overstating things a little. You can get it if you talk to the right people, go to the right website, type in a mystical incantation and sacrifice the blood of a virgin. 
There are nightly builds available at the same place as x86:
And we will probably consider doing a beta release as well. There just hasn’t been one since all the RISC-V work has been merged.
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Does this mean one can download this image and it should run without further patching on actual hardware? Only SiFive Unmatched I think?
I think it should work, but you may need some manual setup of the bootloader (finding the right firmware version, setting up the SD card layout if needed, etc). I have not tried it myself.
As far as I know it is running on one machine that is used for haikuports builds and providing packages now.
There are a few patches still pending, but I think mostly for cleaning up things, so the default build should already be bootable:
https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/4309
https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/5876