virtualization

operating systems Aug 30, 2026 6 min read

Haiku R1/beta6: the little OS gets a bigger foundation

Haiku R1/beta6 arrives after nearly two years with officially branded Firefox for x86_64, experimental QEMU acceleration through NVMM, and extensive memory, filesystem, and desktop improvements. It feels less like a cosmetic update than a careful rebuild of the small operating system’s foundations.

by ahsan

#firefox #haiku #open-source #operating systems #virtualization

machine learning Aug 11, 2026 7 min read

11–16× Faster LLMs in macOS VMs on Apple Silicon

macOS VMs on Apple Silicon can run LLM inference far faster when the guest reports conservative Metal capabilities. A process-scoped capability shim steers llama.cpp onto newer Metal kernels, yielding reported 11–16× speedups while keeping the same Virtualization.framework GPU path.

by ahsan

#apple silicon #llama.cpp #macos #metal #virtualization