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why?.. what?.. how?..
why would you write it entirely in assembly? besides all the obvious ones, that would be so exhausting.

I'll try it out if I can work out how to get the diskette image onto a CD.

Edit: and I have now done so. It works and seems pretty neat.

I never bought a floppy drive for the computer I built because I couldn't imagine why the hell I would ever need one. I do all of my emergency booting from CD's and DVD's, and it's not like anyone stores anything important on a floppy anyway.

I noticed that they only offer a floppy image, not a CD image (I'd be willing to waste a $0.02 CD), so I'll try it out if ever I get around to installing a floppy drive or copying all the data to the CD with bootsectors ripped from another bootable CD.

You don't have to write the image to a floppy. You could just as easily write it to, for example, a USB drive (e.g. "dd if=/path/to/disk/image of=/dev/sda"). Most modern x86 machines can boot off a USB drive.
[edit]Or I could be not stupid and just directly mention the same for a CD drive...[/edit]

Wow. Just... wow.

The best OS ever is, in my oppinion, Back|Track 3. It's Linux for security professionals, meaning it has an extensive suite of penetration testing and auditing tools designed to fit a security audit workflow. It's amazingly useful to me, even though I'm not a security specialist.

I should also mention Haiku, a BeOS based operating system designed for efficiency.