Editing Haiku (operating system) (section)

== Software ==
[[Package manager|Package management]] is done by the graphical application HaikuDepot, and a command-line equivalent called <code>pkgman</code>.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Package Management Infrastructure — Haiku internals documentation |url=https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/develop/packages/Infrastructure.html |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=www.haiku-os.org}}</ref> Packages can also be activated by installing them from remote repositories with pkgman, or dropping them over a special ''packages'' directory.<ref name=":5" /> Haiku package management mounts activated packages over a read-only system directory. The Haiku package management system performs dependency solving with <code>libsolv</code> from the [[openSUSE]] project.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

It comes with a number of preloaded applications, such as a [[WebKit]]-based web browser [[WebPositive]], a document reader BePDF, a simple [[web server]] PoorMan, text editors [[Pe (text editor)|Pe]] and StyledEdit, an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] client Vision, and a [[Bash (Unix shell)|Bash]]-based terminal emulator Terminal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wallen |first=Jack |date=2018-10-19 |title=To BeOS or not to BeOS, that is the Haiku |url=https://www.linux.com/topic/desktop/beos-or-not-beos-haiku/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=Linux.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Compatibility with BeOS===
Haiku R1 aims to be compatible with BeOS 5 at both the [[source compatible|source]] and binary level,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Haiku Book: Application Level API Incompatibilities with BeOS |url=https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/api/compatibility.html |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=www.haiku-os.org}}</ref> allowing software written and [[compiler|compiled]] for BeOS to be compiled and run without modification on Haiku.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=General FAQ |url=https://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=Haiku Project |language=en}}</ref> The 64-bit version of Haiku, however, does not have BeOS compatibility at the binary level, but the API still does. (The same would apply to other non-IA32 ports, such as RISC-V.)<ref name=":3" /> Installation of these PKG format files are done using the PackageInstaller.<ref>{{Cite web |title=LegacyPackageInstaller |url=https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/applications/packageinstaller.html |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=www.haiku-os.org}}</ref>