Comment by Elfener

11 hours ago

Note that the 64-bit version is not open source.

KolibriOS (https://kolibrios.org/en) is an active fork of the open source 32-bit version.

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Tiberium  10 hours ago

To be honest, while KolibriOS is open-source, I wouldn't call it "active" that much. MenuetOS has progressed much further than KolibriOS over the years in both performance (it has SMP support!) and being 64-bit.

You can check the commit activity: https://git.kolibrios.org/KolibriOS/kolibrios/commits/branch... - last commit on the first page is already 10 months ago.

And compare it to "News" on the MenuetOS page: - 22.01.2026 M64 1.58.10 released - Improvements, bugfixes, additions

- 26.08.2024 M64 1.53.60 released - MPlayer included to disk image

- 24.07.2024 M64 1.52.00 released - Partial Linux layer (X-Window/Posix/Elf)

- 12.07.2024 M64 1.51.50 released - New graphics designs by Yamen Nasr

- 08.05.2024 M64 1.50.80 released - Fasm-G, many 32 bit apps & sources

0x1ch  9 hours ago

I wonder why that is. I imagine there's a number between 0 and 1 that reflects how many people have an interest in stealing and commercializing this project.

  • genewitch  8 hours ago

    it's okay to want to be paid for effort.

    if one doesn't want to pay, one can use 32 bit (with all that entails, which, really, isn't much on the sort of machine you'd want to boot from floppy); if one wants 64 bit, one can pay?

    i don't see a problem.

    • II2II  7 hours ago

      The license says it's free for personal or educational use. The only real restrictions prohibit commercial use, redistributing, reverse engineering, disassembling, and decompiling without permission. While that is a a lot less restrictive than most licenses, most of those restrictions are also rather curious. It pretty much negates the value of the software as an educational tool, reducing it to a technology demo.

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