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

@loadhigh Oh wow, this could potentially be super super helpful!

I'll grab the 121. I'm not overflowing with space, but I can spare that much. At least... I'll try to grab the 121... It's, uh, not flying. In fact it's struggling even to make the initial connection. EDIT: Well, it says blocked by cloudflare on my attempt to download so far. Going great!

But yeah, they really really need to put that in a torrent for their own sake and the sake of their downloaders.