Astro Hacker News - MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk

Elfener |next [-]

Note that the 64-bit version is not open source.

KolibriOS (https://kolibrios.org/en) is an active fork of the open source 32-bit version.

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Interview With Ville Turjanmaa, the Creator of MenuetOS (2001) (1)

Ville Turjanmaa: The current distribution fits to a single floppy and I plan to keep the basic OS functions that way.

— Man of his word!

1. https://www.osnews.com/story/93/interview-with-ville-turjanm...

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I believe I run MenuetOS once over decade years ago. Now it's 26 years old since its first release. I can only be jealous of such stamina and wish it prosperous years ahead.

Has it had any commercial success?

p4bl0 |next |previous [-]

I remember stumbling uppon Menuet when it was still 32 bits only, (probably around 2006?). I tried it, booting from an actual floppy disk at the time. Nowadays, I don't even know where I would find a computer that still has a floppy disk drive. Time flies.

alnwlsn |root |parent [-]

I remember doing this too, a little bit later. It would churn on the disk for minutes on end, and usually fail. I think I got it to work once or twice.

Floppy disks and drives were plentiful, but scrap in those days. So of course those were the machines I got to play with as a kid at that time. Many of my disks were not in the best condition, or they were some of the post-2000s ones that were low quality to begin with.

I remember people were making various editions of "mini windows" 3.11 on a floppy disk around that time also.

mrbluecoat |previous [-]

A similar project discussed a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866544