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Friday, 13 July 2012

Kolibri Operating System (OS) – A tiny operating system on a 1.44MB floppy

KolibriOS 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 Kolibri OS from Kalibri Wiki :

Kolibri OS 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 Kolibri OS from Kalibri Wiki : Kolibri OS is an open source operating system with a monolithic preemptive kernel, video drivers, for 32-bit x86 architecture computers, developed and maintained by The Kolibri OS Project Team. Kolibri OS is a fork of Menuet OS, 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.

Kolibri OS Features

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  • Boots from several devices, NTFS is also supported. You can even start it from Windows (Windows will shutdown).
  • Graphical user interface based on VESA.
  • Development kit: code editor with a macro-assembler (FASM) integrated.
  • Runs on low end systems or older hardware (SystemRequirements)
  • Pre-emptive multitasking, streams, parallel execution of system calls.
  • Supported file systems are FAT12FAT16FAT32 (long names support), NTFS (partially, read only), ext2/ext3 (partially, read only) and CDFS.
  • AC'97 audio codec support for IntelnForcenForce2nForce3nForce4, SIS7012, FM801, VT8233, VT8233C, VT8235, VT8237, VT8237R, VT8237R Plus and EMU10K1X chipsets.
KolibriOS
KolibriOS logo
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KolibriOS desktop
Website:www.kolibrios.org
Company/
developer:
KolibriOS Project Team
OS family:
Source model:Open source
Latest stable release:0.7.7.0 / December, 2009
Kernel type:Monolithic kernel
License:GPL
Working state:Active


















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