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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thunfisch 12h ago

@loadhigh For those wondering like me: Yes, there's a torrent available from archive.org, just not linked on the page. You can find it here: https://archive.org/details/preliminary-os-museum-image

Preliminary OS Museum Image : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is a preliminary version of the Virtual OS Museum VM in OVA format with only a few OS images. The launcher works and a few of the installations have been...

Internet Archive

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CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH

@thunfisch I see that the whole project is available there now, too.

My experience with Archive.org torrents has not been the best in the past. Because if the contents of the entry change, the torrent URL will stay the same, leading to you potentially seeding old contents, which clients with an updated torrent file don't accept.