A Modern OS... on a Floppy Disk?!

Today we're checking out an entire operating system that can fit on a single floppy disk!

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Chapters:
00:00 - Years in the making
00:22 - What is KolibriOS?
02:47 - Booting up
03:32 - Trying to get online
06:26 - Exploring some programs
10:58 - Games
14:24 - Settings & Customization
20:01 - Swapping to the CD version
20:52 - Big Games
24:41 - Some more CD-only stuff
27:56 - Outro

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[BexaG]

Some explanation about games and othe quirks of KolibriOS.
KolibriOS is being developed by small community of about 30 people (maybe more), mostly from past-soviet countries. This explains, for example, why speed test tried to download a file from tele2 domain (this is Russian network provider). Clicks, Reversi, Lines and Lights were pretty common on IBM-PC compatable computers in Russia and close countries after Soviet collapse. And KFAR is named like that because there is a program called FAR, developed by Russian programmer Evgeniy Roshal, who, by the way, developed RAR archivation algorythm. So, this FAR program is pretty popular in post-soviet countries among IT-specialists because of it's powerful functionality and small size, so KFAR is, in a sense, nod to that program.

I don't, by the way, state, that this is purely Russian OS or anything like this. I just did give some context about oddities. KolibryOS is a product of multinational team and should be seen as an example of such.

[AmyStrikesBack]

I was going to say "okay but can It run Doom tho?" But like, It literally comes with it

[frutigerbloom]

The aesthetic looks like an operating system you'd see in a game

[MetallicBlade]

Just being able to reposition the taskbar in this itty-bitty OS makes it already more versatile than Windows 11.

[nickwallette]

Floppy version includes a web browser. LiveCD version includes the entire web.

[techcube]

This operating system inside a 1.44 MB floppy drive contains more stuff than a 10 GB+ Windows install

[sesboks]

I really like the icon art Kolibri uses for its apps

[MFiveK]

Man these videos are the reason I love your channel. The oddball Windows stuff is great too but these overviews of these weird unheard of OSes are what I love. And the fact that it's not just another Linux distro is kind of insane to me. Weird assembly based OS that runs from a floppy? Top shelf.

[deadreaver]

I'll tell you right now that i'd have used that in the early 2000s without question.

[HeroRareheart]

"Better late then never"

So when's the Compaq Portable part two MJD?

[rigues]

VERY impressive. Reminds me of the legendary QNX Floppy in the 90s, which contained a full OS with a GUI and a (then) modern browser.

[Centomila]

This YouTube page is 50 times bigger than a OS.

[beecat]

Colibrí means hummingbird in Spanish (the emphasis on the final 'e', so col-ee-BREE). That's why the logo is a hummingbird 😊

[nm-]

KolibriOS
*Has More Stuff than 3 Windows installations
*Fits on a Floppy disk
*Looks nice

[balintmagyar]

21:02 WoW, you've found that miracle game! I was searching for it kinda two decades. On our 386 it was named Goose (never found out why...). Now I can finally get my hands on this miracle again! Great Thanks!

[YetAnotherJohnSmith]

The first OS you can run inside of Doom

[spanishattache]

This reminds me of where QNX Disk OS was several decades ago. Running a full blown OS of a disk. The compression was just crazy when you know the floppy is just 1.44MB & the disk had a different total space to the disk & it was quick.

[kuromiLayfe]

Believe Kolibri is one of the few OS projects that runs completely in RAM (the installer and bootloader fits on a floppydrive but after uncompression all of the processes are done from RAM and not your HDD/FDD or SSD

[rubendriezen]

The upload schedule has been awesome lately! Thank you so much!

[Nostalgia_Realm]

Only half way trough the video I realized that this is NOT just another Linux distro. Very cool, had no idea this existed!