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Kolibri - a desktop operating system in under 3 MB

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bmarkus:
Size is a frequent discussion topic here, in terms of the system, RAM usage, etc. There is in interesting article about

Kolibri OS at Distrowatch

While Kolibri itself is interesting, TC is used as a reference by the author of article:

"But what if I told you that I was recently running a modern operating system that requires about 5 MB of disk space and about 10 MB of RAM? That sounds like a stretch, doesn't it, even for Tiny Core Linux?"

 ;)

curaga:
Previous topic about Kolibri (before the DW article though):
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=1189.0

thane:
There may be open source operating systems (e.g. BSD) that in some theoretical sense are "better" than Linux. However, nobody seems to have taken the trouble to make a distro of any of them that is as light and flexible as TCL. When somebody does I'll give them another look.

alu:
the review is interesting, and i can imagine that tc/mc could be reduced to less than 5 MB with much more flexibility than kolibri and much more usability. tc/mc would be then unexampled.

nick65go:
Necromacy of this thread, abandoned from 2009, so  there are 12 years without a word about kolibri development.

Today Kolibri has English text (menu, docs) or Spanish etc; and google translate is good enough for rusian to english. Its initial mising of appls was corrected, today having a lot of drivers and applications.
http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/Hardware_Support
Even it started to focus on old-windows appls by using wine.

It seams to be good to play with it on / off-line. Especaily for Very-low RAM.
http://websvn.kolibrios.org/listing.php?repname=Kolibri+OS&

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