Mastodawn

Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

The Virtual OS Museum

Over 1,700 pre-installed operating systems spanning 1948 to today, in a single Linux VM. Bundled QEMU, VirtualBox, and UTM. One-click launchers for Windows and Linux.

The Virtual OS Museum

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J. Brian Coyle

@loadhigh
As a virtual machine packrat, this sounds so good!
Are there backup/alternate download mirrors? @internetarchive maybe?

Ko-fi donation inbound soon.

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CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH 1d ago

@JBrianCoyle @internetarchive I'm hoping for a torrent soon, even though that can be tricky for seeders to manage if there will be regular updates.

For now, I truly hope he has an unlimited data plan at his hosting.

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Klingon Sponge 22h ago

@loadhigh @JBrianCoyle @internetarchive I hope they get a torrent going because I will happily leave it seeding on my seed box.

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just_one_bear 17h ago

@retrosponge @loadhigh @JBrianCoyle @internetarchive I got as far as 1% before the download broke so I am going to wait to join a swarm when it's available too.

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Klingon Sponge 17h ago

@just_one_bear @loadhigh @JBrianCoyle @internetarchive I didn't even try because I knew it would fail.😂

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Ludovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD:15h ago

@retrosponge @just_one_bear @loadhigh @JBrianCoyle @internetarchive there's a magnet link in the feed

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Klingon Sponge 15h ago

@usul @just_one_bear @loadhigh @JBrianCoyle @internetarchive Thank you!

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mauvedeity 1h ago

@JBrianCoyle @loadhigh @internetarchive yeah, it’s on the Internet Archive and torrents now. There’s also a “lite” version that’s only 15GB, which I’m fetching now. My ISP doesn’t seem to allow torrenting.