1Haiku 2======================= 3**[Homepage](https://www.haiku-os.org/) 4| [Mailing Lists](https://www.haiku-os.org/community/ml) 5| [IRC Channels](https://www.haiku-os.org/community/irc) 6| [Issue Tracker](https://dev.haiku-os.org/) 7| [API docs](https://api.haiku-os.org)** 8 9Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal 10computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn 11and yet very powerful. 12 13Goals 14------------ 15 * Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required. 16 * Clean, clear, concise code. 17 * Unified desktop environment. 18 19Trying Haiku 20--------------- 21Haiku provides pre-built [nightly images](http://download.haiku-os.org/) and 22[release images](https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku). Haiku is compatible 23with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the 24plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual 25machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of 26the ["Emulating Haiku"](https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/virtualizing/) guides. 27 28Compiling Haiku 29--------------- 30See `ReadMe.Compiling`. 31 32Contributing 33------------------- 34Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even 35if you can't write code, *you can still help*! Haiku needs designers, 36(technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out! 37 38### Contributing code 39If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the 40[patch submitting guidelines](https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/CodingGuidelines/SubmittingPatches). 41 42If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use 43one of our OpenGrok servers: 44 45 * http://xref.plausible.coop/ (provided by Landon Fuller) 46 * http://code.metager.de/source/xref/haiku (provided by MetaGer) 47 48### Contributing documentation 49The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found 50in the tree at `docs/user`). Just find an undocumented class, write 51documentation for it, and [submit a patch](https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/CodingGuidelines/SubmittingPatches). 52 53### Contributing translations 54See [wiki:i18n](https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/i18n). 55 56### Contributing software ports 57See [HaikuPorts](https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/). 58