haiku

Current Sponsors: 71
Past Sponsors: 149
Total Sponsors: 220
Minimum Sponsorship: $1.00

An open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing.

Funding Links: https://github.com/sponsors/haiku

Name: Haiku
Location: Worldwide.
Kind: organization
Followers: 192
Following: 0
Total stars: 2126
Repositories count: 29
Created at: 2022-11-06T00:33:09.926Z
Updated at: 2025-03-28T13:31:51.778Z
Last synced at: 2025-03-28T13:31:51.778Z

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.)