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Pressed DVDs of Haiku R1/beta1 are now available for sale and shipping worldwide, thanks to pulkomandy. https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/buy-now-haiku-dvd/7861

The monthly progress report is back. This month: HiDPI enhancements, Mail fixes to work with Gmail, code cleanups, and a lot of other miscellaneous fixes. https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2018-12-02_haiku_monthly_activity_report_november_2018/

The September/October Activity Report has been published! A lot of kernel and drivers fixes this time, and OpenJDK (Java) is back!
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2018-10-31_haiku_activity_report_septemberoctober_2018/

Looking for some new hardware to run Haiku on? apgreimann has surveyed users and compiled a list of compatible machines. https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/computers-compatible-with-haiku-v2/7640

Is this Mac OS 9? No, it's Haiku! ... but with the MacDecorator and 'Charcoal' as the system font.

At long, long last – Haiku R1/beta1 has been released!
https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/release-notes/

At last, there is a release timeline for R1/beta1: the tentative ship range is 10-18 September. Finally! https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2018-08-19_r1beta1_release_plans_-_at_last/

For additional information, see the official forum thread, where the organizers Lelldorin and lorglaz can also be found. https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/begeistert-2018/6476/36

BeGeistert 031 is coming up in Hamburg, Germany this November. If you're in Europe and want to get more involved with Haiku, check it out! https://www.haiku-os.org/conference/2018_begeistert_031/

Another month, another progress report from pulkomandy, and another few beta bugs fixed... https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2018-07-30_haiku_monthly_activity_report_july_2018/

LibreOffice has come to Haiku! It’s already in the depots for x86_64, and should show up on 32-bit soon(ish). https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/libreoffice-is-now-available-for-haiku/6917

Haiku has been accepted into Google Summer of Code 2018! https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2018-02-14_back_into_google_summer_of_code/

The final monthly activity report of 2017 is out, along with commit stats for the past year. Lots of polishing oriented towards Beta1 has been taking place... https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/pulkomandy/2017-12-31_haiku_monthly_activity_report_december_2017/

It's already available in the (new) default package repositories for x86_64, and hopefully soon on 32-bit x86 as well.

There is of course no hardware-accelerated OpenGL, which limits its use ... but it does work.