Thursday, February 18, 2010

KolibriOS – A tiny operating system on a 1.44MB floppy

KolibriOS  is is an operating system that fits on a single 1.44MB Floppy (many applications are compressed) and  runs with 8MB of Ram !!!  The surprise is that the system come with a graphical environment complete with text editors, system utilities, games, browser, media players and lots of other stuff.

About KolibriOS from Kalibri Wiki :

KolibriOS is an open source operating system with a monolithic preemptive kernel, video drivers, for 32-bit x86 architecture computers, developed and maintained by The KolibriOS Project Team. KolibriOS is a fork of MenuetOS, written entirely in FASM (assembly language). However, C, C++, Free Pascal, Forth, among other high-level languages and compilers, can also be used in user application development.
English, Russian and German versions are available.

Read more: Unixmen
Official site: KolibriOS

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