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- BeOS Demo Video
- Ubuntu Generic vs. Low-Latency Linux Kernel Benchmarks for HPC and Desktop
- Saving Linux
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Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste
You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_...
Besides Linux and BSD Unix there is: https://reactos.org/ https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/
I know some third-world nations still use DOS and the BORLAND DOS compilers because people donate old computers to their nations.
With the right OS, old computers are still usable. Please don't throw them away, e-cycle them so they get used by poor nations that cannot afford new PCs.
- Lightweight Linux Distributions for Older PCs
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Running BeOS 5 in QEMU (i386)
If interested, please take a look at its up-to-date evolution
https://www.haiku-os.org
I tested on real hardware too, and it worked well
- Essence: A desktop OS built from scratch, for control and simplicity
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Here's what your typical Linux system looked like in 2003. We've come so far.
Have you checked out Haiku? It's so delightfully early 2000s.
- Historical workstation desktop interface screenshots
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Geniuses Named this Obtrusive Malware Emulator
Bro you clearly haven't use HaikuOS before.
awesome
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S6, BusyBox, Binary, Suckless
Try this list https://github.com/firasuke/awesome
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A ultra minimalist distro just for fun
Stuff like Business Card Linux might be worth a look. There's some useful links here
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Best (and "easy") distro to build your own distro?
Other projects that could be worth a look are Kiss, Crux, Exherbo & Void...there's a few other pointers in this list.
- GNU free Linux, must not include any GNU stuff
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Can I go deeper or did I hit rock bottom?
Gentoo's quite a complex beast, you could look at simpler stuff with code a single human has a chance of understanding. mkroot, Kiss, Glaucus, Sta.li, few more here
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Arch, Gentoo or LFS
If you are interested in the nuts an bolts of operating systems there's a nice list of interesting projects here.
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is there repositories/lists that contains simple, 'suckless' projects?
https://github.com/firasuke/awesome (last updated yesterday)
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just for curiosity: is it possible to combin Linux and FreeBSD into a single OS? Or does this exist already?
If you search on this link there are a few attempts to use the linux kernel with a bsd userland.
- Distro for a masochist
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Would creating my own Linux Distro from scratch be a good way to learn how linux works for a complete beginner?
Glaucus is another one man project, his Github site has a lot of good info and links to other awesome projects
What are some alternatives?
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glaucus - A simple and lightweight Linux® distribution based on musl libc and toybox
Platform - Qbix Platform for powering Social Apps (http://qbix.com/platform)
awesome-robotics-projects - A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects.
v2os - V2_OS - The V2_ Operating System. 100% 32 bit assembly code
community - Officially unofficial KISS community repository, mirror of https://codeberg.org/kiss-community/community
serenity - The Serenity Operating System 🐞
bedrocklinux-userland - This tracks development for the things such as scripts and (defaults for) config files for Bedrock Linux
kush-os - the kool useful system helper – a from-scratch hobby OS written in C++20
mkroot - Simple Linux build, bootable under qemu for multiple architectures.
harm-less - Inspired by suckless and cat-v, this is a simple single document wiki of suckless practices and minimal software.