KolibriOS

KolibriOS
KolibriOS desktop, summer 2024
DeveloperKolibriOS Project Team
Written inFASM
Working stateActive
Source modelOpen source
Latest release0.7.7.0+8770 / August 1, 2024; 2 months ago (2024-08-01)[1][2]
Repositorygit.kolibrios.org
Available inEnglish, Russian, Italian, Spanish
Platformsx86
Kernel typeMonolithic[3]
Default
user interface
KolibriOS Kernel API
LicenseGPL-2.0-only with binary blobs[4]
Preceded byMenuetOS
Official websitewww.kolibrios.org

KolibriOS, or Kolibri, is a small, open-source x86 operating system written completely in assembly.[5] It was forked from MenuetOS in 2004 and has run under independent development since.[6]

In a 2009 review piece on alternative operating systems, TechRadar called it "tremendously impressive", noting its performance and streamlined codebase.[7]

  1. ^ "Kolibri Releases". archive.kolibrios.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  2. ^ "Index". builds.kolibrios.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  3. ^ Boris Ya. Sovetov; Vladislav V. Cehanovsky (2018). Информационные Технологии [Information Technologies] (in Russian) (7th ed.). Moscow, Russia: Urait. p. 243. ISBN 978-5-534-00048-1.
  4. ^ Is there any proprietary software in this? Board.KolibriOS.org, 2014.
  5. ^ Bärwaldt, Erik (2017). "Little Friend". Linux Magazine (204). ISSN 1471-5678.
  6. ^ "KolibriOS official site". www.kolibrios.org. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
  7. ^ "10 operating systems you've never heard of". TechRadar. 2009-12-20. ISSN 2190-9717.