[im] Virtual OS Museum

[Sugár János]

Andrew Warkentin has spent over twenty years collecting old operating systems and getting them to run. The result is the  Virtual OS Museum, a launcher and Linux VM  that boots 570-odd operating systems on top of QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with everything pre-installed, pre-configured, and rolled back to a known-good state by a snapshot tool when an install breaks.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/
The Virtual OS Museum
virtualosmuseum.org
Warkentin's argument for the project is that software preservation has improved significantly since 2003. Some OSes only run on a specific version of an emulator because later versions regressed. Some need patched emulators just to boot on a modern Linux box. Some take a week to install from original tape images.


https://virtualosmuseum.org/
The Virtual OS Museum
virtualosmuseum.org

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