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 1d ago

@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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mauvedeity

@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.