Mandatory mention to KolibriOS[0], an open-source fork of MenuetOS.
covered quite a few times over the years
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514601 (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789 (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988778 (2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9595507 (2015)
Why did they go closed-source for the 64-bit version?
Is the IntelHDA audio driver only available for 64-bit MenuetOS? According to the release notes, it was first included in version 0.96X, which seems to be 64-bit.
The developer has only made one 32-bit version (0.86) availabe, though. Would be great to have past releases available as well.
EDIT: Apparently the 32-bit versions have not come too far in the last 12+ years -- in 2011 (when the Intel HDA driver was released), version 0.85 of M32 was downloadable: https://web.archive.org/web/20110615210928/http://www.menuet...
I'm learning some assembly (on FreeDOS), so MenuetOS is interesting. Was hoping to test it (+ the HDA audio, for 24-bit playback -- and maybe try to make sense of the audio driver source, for a hobby project) on a Dell Mini 9, which is 32 bit. It's time to move on then, I guess.
Menuet (and Kolibri) are most likely the only OSes written in asm which are still under active development until today...
Is there any examples of practical uses of this OS or is this more of a passion project?
I wonder if using this makes the most sense from a "security by obscurity" standpoint. It doesn't seem likely that blackhats would spend a lot of time hacking into such a marginally used OS.
This is at least 24 years old.
2009 might be earliest HN commentary, but MenuetOS dates back to at least 2005 according to the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20051215234548if_/http://www.co....
https://web.archive.org/web/20051030022655if_/http://www.men...