MenuetOS, floppy os with a GUI

[etc]

http://www.menuetos.net/
I thought this was interesting, and you guys should have a look.

It's written in ASM for 64bit and 32bit systems, and fits on a single floppy. It doesn't touch the harddrive, and has a complete GUI.
It amazes me they could fit all of this on a single floppy.
The project developement is growing extremely fast. The last time I checked this out, it didn't have half the stuff it does now.

They even have ports of things like ScummVM, Doom, Dosbox, and Quake. Check it out http://www.menuetos.org/screens.html

Best of all it works in qemu!
Why not try it out, its a 1.4mb download

To use in Qemu
Download 32bit img http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/menuet/m078.img
Then
qemu -boot a -fda m078.img -pci -user-net
Replace m078.img with the name of the 64bit img if you use a 64bit system.
You can remove the -user-net flag if you don't want it having net access.

[xequence]

That looks very cool. I think I might have found a good OS for my old computer ;)

Edit:

Tried it in vmware, it messed up. On my accual computer it says hardware doesent support the graphics, and I have a normal old integrated intel graphics thingy.

Maybe two floppies for MenuetOS are in order, for better hardeware detection ;)

[Kowalski_GT-R]

i would be interested in this OS,

Has anyone had any experience with it?

Edit: please move this thread at will: I noted it's in the wrong place

[ice60]

i've run it in qemu, here's a screenshot i took when i first ran it -

[K.Mandla]

Moved to Other OS Talk. ;)

[n3tfury]

i've run it in qemu, here's a screenshot i took when i first ran it -

awesome!

[MethodOne]

Run this command on the image if you want a bootable CD:

mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.imgReplace bootfloppy with the name of the floppy image and call bootcd whatever you want. Then burn the resulting ISO onto a CD as an image.

[init1]

Menuet is great. Kolibrios is also worth mentioning. It's based on Menuet and has more applications.
http://www.kolibrios.org/