Developer smrobtzz has achieved a milestone by getting Haiku OS to boot on ARM64 architecture under QEMU, with the ultimate goal of running it natively on an Apple M1 MacBook. No pre-built image is available yet — users must bootstrap their own from a non-Haiku system. Separately, Haiku has been functional on RISC-V QEMU and the HiFive Unmatched SBC for about five years. The BeOS-derived OS remains known for its snappiness and has been considered daily-drivable on x86 since 2024.

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