{"slug": "menuetos", "name": "MenuetOS", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 4.064, "rising": -1.31, "first": "2026-02-05", "latest": "2026-07-29", "why": "Impressive to see it's still around, great project!", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Impressive to see it's still around, great project!", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "menuetos.net", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://menuetos.net", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["MenuetOS"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 785513408, "item_id": 49094588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094588", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-07-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I noticed almost the same with regards to menuet OS.", "excerpt": "I like that the demo scene is quite creative. It seems as if the non-demo scene kind of abandoned creativity to a large extent here, at the least with regards to the User Interface. I noticed almost the same with regards to menuet OS. Personally I would not use Assembly, but creativity is still leading to changes: https://menuetos.net/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"}, {"id": 780517872, "item_id": 48782367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782367", "by": "0x20cowboy", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Those exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/", "excerpt": "Those exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/ it\u2019s just most people dont use them. I agree with you though. If Apple open sourced os9, and the community could get it to run on modern hardware, I would run it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quake in 13 Kilobytes"}, {"id": 750540016, "item_id": 46908751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908751", "by": "trentearl", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Impressive to see it's still around, great project!", "excerpt": "My friends and I used Menuet back in 2003 to circumvent our highschool's OS restrictions. Impressive to see it's still around, great project!", "context": "used it in 2003 at high school", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}, {"id": 750496593, "item_id": 46906037, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906037", "by": "Tiberium", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "MenuetOS has progressed much further than KolibriOS", "excerpt": "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/main - last commit on the first page is already 10 months ago. And compare it to \"News\" on the MenuetOS page: - ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "trentearl", "context": "used it in 2003 at high school", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908751", "date": "2026-02-05"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": [], "compared": [{"slug": "kolibrios", "name": "KolibriOS", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867526", "title": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434", "title": "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693428", "title": "Quake in 13 Kilobytes", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 2}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 785513408, "item_id": 49094588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094588", "by": "shevy-java", "date": "2026-07-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I noticed almost the same with regards to menuet OS.", "excerpt": "I like that the demo scene is quite creative. It seems as if the non-demo scene kind of abandoned creativity to a large extent here, at the least with regards to the User Interface. I noticed almost the same with regards to menuet OS. Personally I would not use Assembly, but creativity is still leading to changes: https://menuetos.net/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "User Interfaces of the Demo Scene"}, {"id": 780517872, "item_id": 48782367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782367", "by": "0x20cowboy", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Those exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/", "excerpt": "Those exist e.g. https://menuetos.net/ it\u2019s just most people dont use them. I agree with you though. If Apple open sourced os9, and the community could get it to run on modern hardware, I would run it.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quake in 13 Kilobytes"}, {"id": 750542704, "item_id": 46908919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908919", "by": "notepad0x90", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I downloaded the zip, but haven't looked at it yet.", "excerpt": "https://www.menuetos.net/64bit.htm I assume, I downloaded the zip, but haven't looked at it yet.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}, {"id": 750540016, "item_id": 46908751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908751", "by": "trentearl", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Impressive to see it's still around, great project!", "excerpt": "My friends and I used Menuet back in 2003 to circumvent our highschool's OS restrictions. Impressive to see it's still around, great project!", "context": "used it in 2003 at high school", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}, {"id": 750526880, "item_id": 46907930, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46907930", "by": "notepad0x90", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "But this is how you distribute source without accepting contributions!", "excerpt": "Interesting license: https://www.menuetos.net/m64l.txt But this is how you distribute source without accepting contributions! :)", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}, {"id": 750496593, "item_id": 46906037, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906037", "by": "Tiberium", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "MenuetOS has progressed much further than KolibriOS", "excerpt": "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/main - last commit on the first page is already 10 months ago. And compare it to \"News\" on the MenuetOS page: - ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}, {"id": 750484752, "item_id": 46905297, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46905297", "by": "Elfener", "date": "2026-02-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Note that the 64-bit version is not open source.", "excerpt": "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.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "MenuetOS \u2013 a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"}]}