A new version of the interesting 100% in x86 assembly operating system, MenuetOS, was released today. The new version brings Voodoo VESA support (which was the most requested feature) and a simple Linux emulation layer. The whole OS (and all of its applications) fits in a 1.44 floppy disk, so there is no need for partitioning your hard drive if you want to try out MenuetOS. Recently, OSNews hosted an exclusive interview with Ville Turjanmaa, the MenuetOS creator.
MenuetOS 0.59 Released
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menuetos is an interesting concept – doing the os in assembly. but the author’s suggestion that he is doing this because object oriented oses have been done already is a bit funny. all operating systems used to be written in assembly. this method of development was basically dropped as the pace of hardware development picked up because it takes longer to write an os in assembly than to port/recompile source code.
the os is not that bad for a graphical os on a floppy. it does have a pretty awful looking color scheme. it is a very low contrast scheme too. i had to turn out my lights just to see what was on the screen.
i like the idea of small and easy…
and the color on my computer was ok
but what i would love to see is a graphical os that is build with a ftp/http server built into it… just a small os… BUT a different file system then unix as it’s file system is confusing… i get the bin files but if you want to change an ip address then you go one place… then to change something else you have to go to a completely different place… i hate doing this but i am trying… i am trying QNX right now… it’s about the same but it has a little easier config to it and there is ONE ftpd to it but it’s not graphical… i know what you might say to this but i am young and i need things to come easy to me for it’s in my nature (or im just lazy)
is there an os that is graphical os that’s not unix and has a ftpd to it?
thanks
I notice that there are some rather familiar ICONS
on the minuet desktop. I suggest that the creators
of minuet should take care with (C.) materials like
icons. It could bite them later.
>is there an os that is graphical os that’s not unix and has a ftpd to it?
BeOS.
If you remember QNX demo floppy – it was kernel+TCP stack+Graphics(VGA only I believe)+Web Browser and it was good, small and stable.
But it’s unix.
There are some non-unix OSes that fits floppy – DOS derivatives usually.
I don’t understand this problem with ftpd config in unix – if it confuses you
then may be you shouldn’t be doing this. Embedded software is not for everyone, you should adjust your mind to think as hardware interprets bits and bytes.
config file sysntax/locaton is the least piece to worry about.
i have found that qnx is much better then unix even if it is on the same kernel…
i like it… But there are some things that could work better
QNX is _not_ the same kernel as ‘unix’. That’s bascally it’s difference! It’s unix-like generally in most other ways, such as file system layout, POSIX, & cli interface but the kernel itself is a small, real-time microkernel, unlike the monolithic kernels of most other unices (not the mach-based ones like Mac OS X, since Mach is a microkernel…).