Glenn Pegden May 20
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I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

#HackerNews #virtualmuseum #operating #systems #techinnovation #softwarehistory #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
May 19 at 3:56pmHacker News Top 15
Show threadDesertFOXMay 19
@h4ckernews Awesome! Thanks!
Show threadDesertFOXMay 19
@h4ckernews I would love to download your archive, but right now it's way too slow . 😞
Show threadEloshaMay 20

@dfx_tech Hackernews is just a news aggregator, not the creator of this slop. 😉

And yes, I've never understood the reason for these "one contains everything" collections. Its always too much to actually benefit from the masses, instead wastes a lot ot storage, traffic and time.

I'd rather stick to what sounds interesting and make that run, which is part of the learning process after all. 🤗

Show threadflaepMay 20
@elosha @dfx_tech
The website looks realy sloppy, but if the vms realy "just work" they are nice to have.
Gateway to retro computing.
Show threadEloshaMay 20
@flaep @dfx_tech I don't want to talk badly, but to me it doesn't "just work" if you have to buy an extra SSD, need to boot a middleware OS, and you'll probably never really try 90% of content (too many computers, requiring different understanding). In the end, Gamers/Unixers/Mainframers/… are different people. For these situations there are smaller collections, like a prepared Amiga games HDD image or a preinstalled IBM S/360 emu OS image. ☺️