Featured Haiku Tips
Adding Haiku to GRUB2 in Ubuntu 9.10
Learn how to add Haiku to the boot menu in multi-boot systems that use GRUB2, the latest version adopted by most recent Linux distros.
Creating a Bleeding Edge (GCC2/4 hybrid) Haiku CD from Ubuntu 9.10
Guide for Ubuntu users who would like to try Haiku out and are brave enough to venture into the bleeding edge of building from sources.
Watching YouTube in Haiku Using Gnash
Haiku has some support for Flash through an experimental port of Gnash. These step-by-step instructions show how to install Gnash so that you can play YouTube videos in Haiku.
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If you are a Haiku user and fancy playing with graphics, you may want to know that a lot of the artwork used in Haiku itself and the Haiku website is freely available for download, and most of it is in editable file formats. This includes numerous variations of the Haiku logo, the graphics used in the boot splash screen, the Haiku icons, the system cursors and several other images used for various purposes. The icons are in Haiku's native HVIF icon format, which can be edited using the Icon-O-Matic application, and most of the remaining graphics are available as WonderBrush files, which can be edited using the native application with the same name. So if you want to create Haiku-themed graphics for your website, blog or t-shirt, there is plenty of material to play with. This tip will tell you how to easily download all the artwork and how to keep your artwork files in sync with the Haiku repository, both by using a simple command.
Preventing the user from loading pages that do not have a verified SSL certficate is a good security practice that most browsers follow. Usually, when you attempt to access a page with a self-signed SSL certificate, your browser will show a warning message but still allow you to proceed for cases where you know (or assume at your own risk) that the site is safe. In most cases, there is also exception handling for adding sites to an exception list, so that you are not bugged with the warning message everytime you try to access sites known to be safe by the user.
From time to time I hear people saying that they cannot user their external monitor with Haiku from a laptop or netbook. While it is true that there is not much multi-monitor support in Haiku, there is still a very simple way that may just allow you to do this without any difficult tinkering. I came up with this trick a few years ago, when I was scheduled to give a Haiku talk at the 
Haiku developer Jon "DarkWyrm" Yoder recently released a new version of Paladin, a native integrated development environment (IDE) for Haiku. Paladin 1.3 comes only a few months after previous version 1.2.1, adding several new features, including Subversion and Mercurial based source control integration (Git support is in the works), a feature to import BeIDE projects, an update to 
It is not an exaggeration to say that Linux is at the center of the open source movement. So it is not unusual (in fact, quite common) for many open source events to bear the Linux name, when in the majority of the cases they embrace the wider ecosystem that encompasses an ample variety of open source software projects.