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Re: MenuetOS

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Post by eru »

velcrovan wrote: post #48
eru wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need a new OS for that. You can do that as a Linux distribution just fine.

Maybe with heavy hacking, but not ready-made, at least that I’ve found. Certainly don’t seem to be any distros (in the casual searching I do periodically) that focus on 1-second boot times out of the box.

You might like https://www.benjamin-schieder.de/nethacklinux.html

Replace nethack with your favourite editor, and it might just work. (Well, also replace the floppy disk with something faster.)

Re: MenuetOS

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Post by hotnfresh »

JPLeRouzic wrote: post #50
hotnfresh wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Last time I ran it, Lakka (a Linux disto for Retroach emulation appliances) booted in 5s or less on an RPi2, to a usable graphical menu, complete with particle effects or whatever if you have that stuff enabled.

on a 1.44MB floppy?

Nah, but QNX could maybe do it still :-)

1.44 MB floppy read times might prevent sub-5-second boots to a GUI, though. I can’t really remember how fast things like that booted from a floppy, anymore.

Re: MenuetOS

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Post by xyproto »

cylinder714 wrote: post #12
xyproto wrote: post #3

It's such a pity that the 32bit version is open source and the 64-bit version proprietary. The open source alternative is KolibriOS.

My understanding is that Kolibri is a hostile fork of Menuet, and that Menuet's author closed it in retaliation.

Open source software can be forked, that's how open source works.

To me, as an outsider to these projects, making the 32-bit version open source and the 64-bit version proprietary feels hostile.

How many years should pass until it doesn't matter if a fork was "hostile" or not and only open source software remains?

Re: MenuetOS

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Post by tuetuopay »

mdp2021 wrote: post #49
tuetuopay wrote: post #46

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> You can see here a recent AROS booting in 3s (it is not clear if it is bare metal though): The virtualbox window is pretty clear to me :D

Youngsters, bragging about their good eyes... ;) Anyway: I thought I have here a laptop I have to initialize, maybe I will install IcarOS on it as soon as I will have the time. So, we will see how it behaves on bare metal.

Or just having overly-large screens. Or just going back to the video after reading the comment :p

IcarOS seems like a fun thing to play with. Don't go too deep in the obscure OS rabbithole, it's indefinitely deep.

Re: MenuetOS

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Post by cylinder714 »

xyproto wrote: post #53
cylinder714 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My understanding is that Kolibri is a hostile fork of Menuet, and that Menuet's author closed it in retaliation.

Open source software can be forked, that's how open source works. To me, as an outsider to these projects, making the 32-bit version open source and the 64-bit version proprietary feels hostile. How many years should pass until it doesn't matter if a fork was "hostile" or not and only open source software remains?

>Open source software can be forked

But that isn't all that took place; please read the linked post.

I think the author's wishes should be respected above all. Don't you?

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