BeOS-Inspired Haiku Enabling More Intel Hardware & Driving Kernel Optimizations

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS.

Haiku has continued seeing more hardware support in different drivers, various kernel performance optimizations, and a range of other work.

These latest changes build off the recent Haiku R1 Beta 5 release. Highlights include:

- Packagefs memory usage has been optimized so there's a savings of around 20%.

- The Intel Extreme modesetting driver has added support for Gemini Lake and Ice Lake devices. There is also more Intel Tiger Lake support now in place.

- The Haiku FAT driver can now handle read/write access to volumes up to 2TB in size.

- The default "mute key" media key shortcut can now toggle mute on/off rather than just muting off.

- The audio mixer startup will do a better job avoiding hangs at start.

- Minor fixes and performance optimizations to the Haiku kernel code.

- Continued work on ARM64 support.

More details on the recent Haiku changes via Haiku-OS.org.