Menuet and Kolibri - Ultralight OSes Written in Assembly

[Trev-MUN]

Check these out:

http://menuetos.net/

http://kolibrios.org/en/

I've had my eye on these for a while, as I've had an interest in converting one of the old-new stock 90's PCs I picked up a few years ago into a NAS. (From what I understand, though, I'd have to use Kolibri for them, because development on Menuet's 32-bit version has mostly stalled and I don't believe that version's been tested with 90's era CPUs like Pentium Is and IIs.)

Either way, the work that's been done on both operating systems so far is rather impressive. What do you guys think?

[Humming Owl]

I've tested KolibriOS and it is very fast. Unfortunately it doesn't detect my wireless card and ethernet connector. In their forum one of the developers said that support for those components can be added if you know Assembly (God... I wish I could know that) but so far is an excellent project. I wonder if Assembly written OSes can be way more effective than the ones we already use.

I've also seen this one, I can't use it because you have to compile it yourself but it also seems very nice (It's not written in Assembly) --> https://serenityos.org/

[Trev-MUN]

I wonder if Assembly written OSes can be way more effective than the ones we already use.

I've wondered the same! I recently saw that Kolibri actually can run games like Wolfenstein 3D and Menuet can handle Quake 1, which surprised me. I was under the impression that any software for either OS had to be specifically written for them. Maybe that's still the case? I'm not too clear on the specifics.

Either way, it's mighty impressive. Definitely shows the power of writing in assembly rather than through C/C#/C++ or other languages.