Talk:MenuetOS

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Objectivity

MenuetOS is notable for implementing an OS the proper' way: simple, efficient, fast and small. Other OS'es suffer from feature-mania, complexity (thus allowing security vulnerabilities) and legacy backward-compatibility. None of those drawbacks exist in Menuet. It has a graphical desktop, games, and networking capabilities (TCP/IP stack), and still fits on a single 1.44MB floppy disk. It is also the platform for relatively easy, full-featured assembly language programming in 2005 when assembly languages were considered usable mainly for old and embedded systems.
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Just a few objective (in my opinion) phrases that I feel should be altered. Some could say that these phrases are fact, so I thought I'd make sure by asking a few others. Should be fairly quick to clean up and set straight though. 86.2.11.128 15:36, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I've taken a stab at it and removed the NPOV tag. ERobson 02:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

AMD64

Would someone who is an expert on this subject please contribute to the Menuet entry on the AMD64 page? Thank you! Jeh 23:31, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello world

Windowed hello world program source code available at http://www.menuetos.net/e64.asm. --Easyas12c 07:20, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Split

I'm suggesting a split to the original MenuetOS and the new 64-bit MenuetOS. There are multiple reasons for this. Most importantly the other is free software, while the other is not. --Easyas12c 20:42, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The later is a lie... Both are free if you don't believe download just go to the download page :-)

No it is not. Kernel source code is still missing. Which is a violation of freedom 1, from The Free Software Definition. --Easyas12c 21:21, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Freeware and opensource are two different things but both are free to download and use.--Frozenport 22:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

And free software is a third thing that gives you the rights listed in The Free Software Definition.--Easyas12c 07:35, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Would you split Windows into Windows x86 and Windows x64?

No, I wouldn't. There is no point because they are both non-free software and essentially the same product. Also note that MenuetOS is written in FASM which is an assembly language that can't just be recompiled to another architecture, but often requires some serious rewriting. --Easyas12c 21:21, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does this matter? Both versions atempt to support the same type of application and have very very similiar source codes... Not to say that the topic should not be seperated with headers but if the topic is seperated tottaly it would make information about both versions of the same OS harder to find.--Frozenport 22:04, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It complicates writing the article and makes the article prone to errors. It also prevents the 32-bit version from being put in Category:Free_software. --Easyas12c 07:39, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why is it necessary to split a topic just to make it fit in the Category:Free_software catagory? I believe that this will further obscure an OS that needs as much publicity as it can get.--Frozenport 20:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I say its fine the way it is, but it may make sence to have a seperate header for the 32bit version.

MenuetOS is not Minuet

MenuetOS appears to have nothing to do with Minuet beyond that they have similar names and can both access the Internet.

Menuet License

From http://www.menuetos.net/m64l.txt

0) Free for personal and educational use.

1) Contact menuetos.net for commercial use.

2) Redistribution prohibited without permission.

That falls under the classification of a propietary license. I think that Wikipedia readers, who go to the link and don't know what to make of it, should instead be warned about it in the box, thus having "License: Propietary". --W2bh 17:52, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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