California lawmakers are considering exempting Linux and other open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act after backlash over OS-level age verification requirements 🏛️
Amendment could exempt major Linux distros, while proprietary platforms like SteamOS may still be covered 🐧
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https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/04/zdnet-how-to-try-out-over-85-linux-distros-no-installation-required-with-distrosea/One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: CA’s AB 1856 Exempts Open Source But Expands Age-Gating
New Virtual Museum Offers Access to Hundreds of Historic and Obsolete Operating Systems
📰 Original title: 'Virtual OS Museum' Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
A new digital preservation project known as the Virtual OS Museum allows users to explore and run around 570 historic and obsolete operating systems. The initiative has gained attention after reports highlighted how easily modern users can access extremely old computing environments, including systems such as NeXTSTEP, Commodore 64 software environments, Apple early systems, Atari platforms, various Unix and Linux distributions, and even rare mainframe and research systems like IBM 1130 and DEC-based machines. The museum is distributed as a virtual machine running on VirtualBox, which boots into a Debian Linux environment that acts as a launcher for the catalog of operating systems. Users can download either a full version, approximately 174 GB in size and capable of running offline, or a lighter 14 GB edition that downloads operating system images on demand from the internet. Once installed, users can select from a large menu of legacy systems spanning decades of computing history, including early personal computers, mobile and embedded systems, academic machines, and industrial mainframes. The project is largely the work of a single curator, Andrew Wartenkin, who has spent over two decades collecting and organizing operating system images and related software. While he relies on existing emulation tools rather than writing all virtualization code himself, the effort is notable for its scale and historical breadth. The Virtual OS Museum highlights the evolution of computing interfaces and architectures, offering both educational and nostalgic value. Users can experience early computing constraints, such as limited memory and hardware-level programming, while also exploring the diversity of systems that shaped modern operating systems.
New Virtual Museum Offers Access to Hundreds of Historic and Obsolete Operating Systems
📰 Original title: 'Virtual OS Museum' Lets You Try 570 Extinct Operating Systems
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅
A new digital preservation project known as the Virtual OS Museum allows users to explore and run around 570 historic and obsolete operating systems. The initiative has gained attention after reports highlighted how easily modern users can access extremely old computing environments, including systems such as NeXTSTEP, Commodore 64 software environments, Apple early systems, Atari platforms, various Unix and Linux distributions, and even rare mainframe and research systems like IBM 1130 and DEC-based machines. The museum is distributed as a virtual machine running on VirtualBox, which boots into a Debian Linux environment that acts as a launcher for the catalog of operating systems. Users can download either a full version, approximately 174 GB in size and capable of running offline, or a lighter 14 GB edition that downloads operating system images on demand from the internet. Once installed, users can select from a large menu of legacy systems spanning decades of computing history, including early personal computers, mobile and embedded systems, academic machines, and industrial mainframes. The project is largely the work of a single curator, Andrew Wartenkin, who has spent over two decades collecting and organizing operating system images and related software. While he relies on existing emulation tools rather than writing all virtualization code himself, the effort is notable for its scale and historical breadth. The Virtual OS Museum highlights the evolution of computing interfaces and architectures, offering both educational and nostalgic value. Users can experience early computing constraints, such as limited memory and hardware-level programming, while also exploring the diversity of systems that shaped modern operating systems.
I hate talking about #ageverification but supposibly the #California state law: "ab 1856"
is expanding beyond #operatingsystems. It will potentially now apply to, the #webbrowser level, and a return to age verification applying to websites?
While an extension to #browser is horrifying but now #Meta is screwed over, here's why.
If the law passes in this current state, Meta is being targeted again and the government, keeps meta's lobbying money. Did meta really thought they were going to exempt them in the long term? Well they weren't, they want to regulate the entirety of the internet and technology.
Up to the text output before it reaches a "minors screen" as they claim, it's for the minors protection.
After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open source operating systems from the sweeping age-bracketing regime mandated by last year’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043). Nonetheless, the current bill still jeopardizes internet users’ speech, privacy, and security....
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