A Complete OS on 1.44MB Floppy Disk

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KolibriOS is a tiny yet incredibly powerful and fast operating system. This power requires only a few megabyte disk space and 8MB of RAM to run. Kolibri features a rich set of applications that include word processor, image viewer, graphical editor, web browser and well over 30 exciting games.
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@dom165 4 ай бұрын

I used something similar 20 years ago called menuet. The challenge today is to find floppy and floppy drive hahahaha

@esra_erimez 4 ай бұрын

KolibriOS was forked off from MenuetOS in 2004

@blankenfelderstubenadler8006 3 ай бұрын

In japan and germany, you get it without problems. In japan the textile econemy used old machines which worked with texile cut CADs designs on floppy

@MegaManNeo 3 ай бұрын

I used to boot into MenuetOS - the system this is based on - for fun back in the day. To young 13-14 years old me back then, it was mind blowing to start into something other than DOS or Windows from a 3.5" floppy diskette. At the same time I did my first steps into Linux using my Knoppix 3.7 LiveCD. Crazy times.

@anon_y_mousse 3 ай бұрын

While it wasn't my first Linux, I did use Knoppix for about a year as my sole OS like 20-ish years ago. Fun times, I'd say.

@maxmuster7003 3 ай бұрын

I used knoppix 6.4 on PC with no hdd, but with two NICs and a dsl modem(without routing function) and an usb-stick with a shell script to configure the NICS to enable routing and portforwarding and to login to the provider with a password and a second script to logout. Using Windows with putty and winscp to telecontrol the software router.

@davidrandall4001 3 ай бұрын

Don, I have a few old laptops that this might just be the ticket for. Thanks for putting this out there otherwise..... most of us would have never heard about it. My many thanks.

@ronm6585 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing Don.

@SchoolforHackers 3 ай бұрын

Imagine deploying 200-300 of these as VMs for Remote Desktop. On a server with, like, a spacious gig of ram.

@michaelwong4530 3 ай бұрын

Great video. I remember when linux fit on a floppy. It would be nice if the operating systems were programmed to optimize efficiency and space, sadly they seem to emphasize bloat and telemetry on the user.

@gedgicat2063 4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of picore or tinycore os which started off as x86 and now runs on a raspberry pi

@mattelder1971 3 ай бұрын

That's impressive. Back in the early 90s, before Windows 95 came out, I managed to do something similar with Windows 3.1, but nowhere near as functional as this.

@kjetilhvalstrand1009 3 ай бұрын

It does show how bloated Win95 was, the name “Microsoft” was joke, to Amiga users.

@mattelder1971 3 ай бұрын

@@kjetilhvalstrand1009 Yeah, I was an Amiga user until late 1993 or early 1994. An install of Windows 95 would have taken up the majority of my Amiga's 40MB hard drive all on its own (As I recall, my typical installation of 95 was around 30MB when I first started using the betas in mid-1995).

@cspahn3221 3 ай бұрын

this is super neat

@saultube44 Ай бұрын

Assembly! King of Languages! 😁 But seriously: *The Efficiency* of it, how many things, 3D even; this is Assembly, at its Efficient Point; Oh How Glorious it is. Not even 1.44 MB, it has like 0.35MB, so it's like 1.1MB only

@sneekylinux 3 ай бұрын

I remember taking a look at this many years ago Don.....(am getting old!!)

@tetttettamilli6761 3 ай бұрын

@NST - I'm currently playing with an old Gateway 7200X Win XP box (getting it to see the ext HDMI VC is Mission: Impossible). Thus, with limited resources now a reality, I'll definitely will have to check it out. Thanks.

@deanbaker7080 4 ай бұрын

Hey Don, could you make a video on actually installing Kolibri to a hard drive? Thanks for the video

@Harry_Bl44346 Ай бұрын

this is crazyyyyyyy

@frankgregory-xs6nw 3 ай бұрын

Operating Systems should always strive to be as light as possible. This just shows how bloated most OS's are.

@TheNinjaMarmot 3 ай бұрын

I think windows 3.11 used more floppies. I think even IBM DOS used more floppies and that didn't even have a gui!

@maxmuster7003 3 ай бұрын

I have no floppy drive, but a DosBox emulator app installed and there is a special mount command to mount an image file. But i am not sure if it starts the OS from the image file. DosBox emulates an intel 80386/80387 32 bit CPU with svga-S3 graphic.

@anon_y_mousse 3 ай бұрын

Don, I'm surprised that with all the equipment you've got laying around you don't have a USB floppy drive handy. Menuet, and this fork of it called Kolibri, they really prove that modern computing is just far too bloated. Sure, not everyone wants to program in assembly, but even FASM can use macros and you can easily develop your own code libraries that over time developing things in a given language gets faster and easier. As an example of bloat, I downloaded a program written in Rust that was just under a thousand lines of code, and it generated a 12mb binary and half a gig of extra junk that isn't even needed to run the program.

@sunnysaini5 4 ай бұрын

Great

@prottentogo 3 ай бұрын

lol the eyes cracked me up

@PihkalTheTihkal 3 ай бұрын

Flappy-bird, imagine if they would have called it FLOPPY-Bird, missed opportunity.

@haydenc2742 3 ай бұрын

Check out the newly released and updated Damn Small Linux or SLAX

@Makumbi 3 ай бұрын

Reminds me of zipslack back in the day

@neversaynever5157 2 ай бұрын

great video thanks i have a toshiba laptop around the same age as yours if you could work out a way to install that systerm onto a hard drive I would love to se it , that looks like the only way to really revive a 32 bit machine i think that system would keep my 20 year old toshiba going for another 20 years 🙂👍

@chef2654 4 ай бұрын

Amazing right? A whole operating system, with a desktop and other programs in 1.44MB. Think about how bloated current OS'es are. I mean, they look better, sure. But why do they consume more than 1GB of ram at idle? And do they really need 400 processes running at idle for desktop in 2024? Its just a clownshow these days.

@anon_y_mousse 3 ай бұрын

When I first boot up, the OS I use, Slackware, only uses around 700mb of RAM. Of course, I use KDE, so that's more than twice what it might with another WM/DE. For instance, when I enter run level 4 and close all the GUI components, it's around 300mb of RAM. This is with nothing running too.

@SchoolforHackers 3 ай бұрын

Oh, the joys of manually choosing run level. Yeah baby.

@anon_y_mousse 3 ай бұрын

@@SchoolforHackers It's not that I have to, because it's set up by default to boot to SDDM, but doing so clears all the memory used by the various GUI components that get started by the boot process. I've found that merely logging out clears most of that RAM, but I take it a step further.

@SchoolforHackers 3 ай бұрын

@@anon_y_mousse I dig: I’m non-sarcastically remembering my old UNIX days. It was great working so close to the metal.

@danbeaver534 3 ай бұрын

I use a multitasking gui OS that runs off a single 880K floppy and a 30-year old cpu, called the Amiga

@Fareke2 3 ай бұрын

Make a video that fits on floppy.

@NovaspiritTech 3 ай бұрын

Prob be at 480x320 res and insane compression

@SchoolforHackers 3 ай бұрын

Ouch.

@ms-ex8em 3 ай бұрын

why do floppy drives format under 2.0 mb or 1.0 mb ?? why is this ? is it because they need system space etc ? or the tracks on the disc ?? etc thanks...........

@dhardison 3 ай бұрын

QNX did this, as well

@edcdad1124 4 ай бұрын

That's crazy I wonder if there's similar programs in size I can install on my wife's HP stream 14 I have lubuntu on it and it actually runs well .

@haydenc2742 3 ай бұрын

Newly released Damn Small Linux might run well on it

@edcdad1124 3 ай бұрын

@@haydenc2742 haven't even heard of that one yet lol I was gonna try cute fish os or whatever on it lubuntu seems to run well thou

@edcdad1124 3 ай бұрын

@@haydenc2742 whoa the original was only 50mb ! I'll have to give this new one a shot on a spare drive in my main PC

@UcantBeSerious03 4 ай бұрын

digs out my usb flooppy drive

@ms-ex8em 3 ай бұрын

okay i have a question for you ?? are ALL floppy drives exactly the same ?? the floppy drives themselves ?? 1.44 mb 1.76 mb amiga 1.6 mb 800k 400k mac 360k 720k pc atari are they all the same or maybe not so ?? thanks...........

@fbifido2 3 ай бұрын

can the floppy image be converted to a VHD image or any other virtual image?

@WR3ND 3 ай бұрын

There are different image types on their site, not just floppy.

@huongthanh5190 3 ай бұрын

It maybe os for IoT system.

@mysticmarble94 4 ай бұрын

Do you shift your voice audio to the right channel to match the overlay ? If so, it's kind of irritating 😬

@glitchinthematrix15 3 ай бұрын

Yes I have noticed the same in all videos, audio is not balanced its shifted towards right.

@SchoolforHackers 3 ай бұрын

Hmm, I’d been thinking it was just my crappy left ear. Thanks -

@djstraussp 4 ай бұрын

Any virtualized flavor of this OS?

@SchoolforHackers 3 ай бұрын

Actually, it would be a snap to set up - assuming you’ve got a floppy disk drive to get started.

@ms-ex8em 3 ай бұрын

why did ibm or pc choose 1.44 mb why not 1.76 or 1.89 or 2.0 mb ?? thanks are high density floppy drives ALL 2.0 mb in size really ?? thanks.............

@MrIzaiah2007YT 2 ай бұрын

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!?

@Sol_Solis_ 2 ай бұрын

Programmed in Assembly language.

@MrIzaiah2007YT 2 ай бұрын

@@Sol_Solis_ I don't know what that means but this sure fits on a floppy disk.

@kjetilhvalstrand1009 3 ай бұрын

Looked like compressed floppy so 1.44 mb == 2.88 mb, yes its impressive, this must be stripped exe files, the way some OS static link is extremely bad for exe files, I guess it depends on download software when you need it. As so small I’m guessing no drivers, depending on std PC hardware floppy and VESA, ps2 etc.