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the-backdoor-factory
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- | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB
This is a pretty cool find! I feel inclined to share my project from a while ago, where the idea was (inspired by Dockerfiles) to automate the building of a working Windows 98 installation in QEMU.
It's fairly janky and slow, but it does what it promises and starting from usual installation media will produce a HDD image with Windows 98 installed and somewhat customised (containing some files I wanted and a custom desktop wallpaper and such).
https://github.com/visual2000/paschke
the-backdoor-factory
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Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB
I don't think this argument holds much substance. FOSS developers are absolutely not lost without the source - they just share the fruit of their labor under FOSS licenses. In fact there's a good chunk of work being done black-box style: WINE, many of the drivers, game modding, hell here's a random FOSS binary patcher[0]. So FOSS developers don't seem to be lost without the source.
[0] https://github.com/secretsquirrel/the-backdoor-factory
What are some alternatives?
Mypal - Web browser
BDFProxy - Patch Binaries via MITM: BackdoorFactory + mitmProxy.
jailhouse - Linux-based partitioning hypervisor
vmlinux-to-elf - A tool to recover a fully analyzable .ELF from a raw kernel, through extracting the kernel symbol table (kallsyms)
Cozette - A bitmap programming font optimized for coziness 💜
LIEF - LIEF - Library to Instrument Executable Formats
shrinkwrap - A tool that embosses the needed dependencies on the top level executable