--- title: Haiku OS Releases Beta 6 | daily.dev description: Haiku OS has released Beta 6, more than two years after Beta 5, bringing support for running Firefox and derivative browsers, QEMU hardware virtualization via... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Haiku OS Releases Beta 6 | daily.dev og:description: Haiku OS has released Beta 6, more than two years after Beta 5, bringing support for running Firefox and derivative browsers, QEMU hardware virtualization via... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fysyJaESC.png og:image:alt: Haiku OS Releases Beta 6 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Haiku OS Releases Beta 6 **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Haiku OS has released Beta 6, more than two years after Beta 5, bringing support for running Firefox and derivative browsers, QEMU hardware virtualization via NetBSD's Virtual Machine Monitor (NVMM), improved POSIX and hardware compatibility, and numerous bug fixes. 64-bit ARM support is still not included. YouTuber Action Retro tested the release by installing it on a stack of dollar-bin laptops with specs as low as a Pentium II and 256 MB RAM, finding WiFi and audio worked out of the box on a 2000s Asus laptop, making old hardware a viable daily driver for the OS. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What's new in Haiku OS Beta 6? Haiku OS Beta 6 adds the ability to run Firefox and its derivative browsers, QEMU hardware virtualization through the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (NVMM), improved POSIX and hardware compatibility, and many bug fixes. It was released about two years after Beta 5, though nightly builds kept users updated in between. 64-bit ARM support is still not included. _Track platform releases like this one on daily.dev before deciding which OS to run on old hardware._ ### What are the minimum system requirements to run Haiku OS? Haiku OS can run on hardware as old as a Pentium II with 256 MB of RAM, installing and booting quickly even on such limited specs. A tester installed Beta 6 on a stack of dollar-bin laptops from the 2000s and found WiFi and audio worked without extra configuration on a random Asus laptop. _Developers reviving old hardware follow lightweight OS releases like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Haiku Merges NVMM For Initial Virtualization Support, But It Doesn't Yet Fully Work](https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-merges-nvmm-for-initial-virtualization-support-but-it-doesn-t-yet-fully-work-lnhgm1nah) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements](https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-now-enables-avx-512-support-other-hardware-improvements-ihxxmlsci) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Haiku OS Releases Beta 6","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc"},"datePublished":"2026-09-02T02:21:31.058Z","dateModified":"2026-09-02T02:22:27.931Z","description":"Haiku OS has released Beta 6, more than two years after Beta 5, bringing support for running Firefox and derivative browsers, QEMU hardware virtualization via...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5dd8e52fc3f6645a8ce640e18a254805?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5dd8e52fc3f6645a8ce640e18a254805?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hackaday","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hackaday","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--JhDfhy70--/f_auto,q_auto/v1767541814/logos/hackaday","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hackaday","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Haiku OS Releases Beta 6"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/haiku-os-releases-beta-6-fysyjaesc#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What's new in Haiku OS Beta 6?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Haiku OS Beta 6 adds the ability to run Firefox and its derivative browsers, QEMU hardware virtualization through the NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor (NVMM), improved POSIX and hardware compatibility, and many bug fixes. 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