We’re a little deep into June already, but it’s only now that Haiku published its monthly progress report for May. There’s a bunch of fixes for drag-and-drop behaviour in Tracker, AVX512 support can now be enabled thanks to changes to the kernel’s FPU handling, some low-level changes were made for the Rust and Zig compilers, and further improvements were made to the boot process on the Raspberry Pi 5 (although a lot more work is needed on that front).
There’s still no sixth beta since a few more blockers remain, but don’t let that stop you from installing Haiku – it’s stable enough as it is, sixth beta or no.
Thom, in addition to your OSNews tattoo, could you include a “Haiku for a month” and review?
I’d happily trade that for the tattoo, in conjunction with regular updates (at least weekly)
Someone suggested a “race” where people can donate to their favourite smaller operating system – the one that gets the most donations is the one I’d use for a week or whatever. I’d have to select a few viable candidates and set it up.
I’m wondering if there are any Haiku apps that use AVX512?
Firefox?