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.
KolibriOS features a rich set of applications that include word processor, image viewer, graphical editor, web browser and well over 30 exciting games. Full FAT12/16/32 support is implemented, as well as read-only support for NTFS, exFAT, ISO9660 and Ext2/3/4. Drivers are written for popular sound, network and graphics cards.
Speed is achieved since the core parts of KolibriOS (kernel and drivers) are written entirely in FASM assembly language.
- Features include:A monolithic preemptive kernel that is less than 100 kilobytes in size, complete with streams, parallel execution of system calls, a USB and TCP/IP stack.
- Speed: Thanks to being (carefully) written in Assembler, it’s very fast.
- Size: KolibriOS is very small – The kernel and most of the programs fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk!
- Filesystem support: Read/write support for FAT16/32 (with long file names), ExFAT and ext2/3/4, read-only support for NTFS, XFS and CDFS(ISO9660).
- Lightweight: Kolibri boots on any computer that has a Pentium (i586) compatible processor and at least eight megabytes of RAM.
- Hardware support: A lot of the popular sound, network and graphics cards are supported (see supported hardware list)
- Comes with a development kit (code editor with FASM macro-assembler integrated).
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | KolibriOS |
| Init Software: | - |
| Package Management: | - |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | i386 |
| Home Page: | kolibrios.org |
| Developer: | KolibriOS Team |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distros which is currently under development. |
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