haiku
An open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing.
Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/haiku, https://liberapay.com/haiku.inc, https://www.haiku-inc.org/donate/
- Name: Haiku
- Location: Worldwide.
- Kind: organization
- Followers: 258
- Following: 0
- Total stars: 2411
- Repositories count: 29
- Created at: 2022-11-06T00:33:09.926Z
- Updated at: 2026-02-12T00:33:40.847Z
- Last synced at: 2026-02-12T00:33:40.846Z
GitHub Sponsors Profile
Haiku has a very big goal: creating an entire, cohesive operating system from scratch; not another Linux distribution, and it isn't inspired by Windows or macOS, but by an operating system from the 1990s called BeOS. We wish to create a system that has the charm and usability of BeOS with various modern updates such as an innovative packaging system, clever and efficient vector icons, and of course, a modern web browser and other applications that people now expect.
Haiku, like most open-source projects, has primarily been volunteer-driven, and despite this has achieved some pretty lofty goals. Nonetheless, an entire operating system is a large project, and building and maintaining one purely on volunteer efforts is an almost impossible task. Thus, Haiku has solicited donations in order to fund various full-time contracts over the years (including a currently ongoing one), with the ultimate dream of funding a team of full-time developers.
Your donations will go directly towards the funding of such contracts, as well as infrastructure costs and other expenses. (Haiku, Inc. publishes funding and expenditure reports with details.)
- Current Sponsors: 62
- Past Sponsors: 194
- Total Sponsors: 256
- Minimum Sponsorship: $1.00
Active Sponsors
Past Sponsors
Sponsor Breakdown
- User: 195
- Organization: 1
- Unknown: 11