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I’m currently using Windows 11
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An operating system of significant and historical renown, responsible for running most of the internet and phones (via Android).
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To mix it with Windows, check out Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- See also /tag/linux+windows
- BSD, a cousin of Linux, which is also behind iOS (on iPhones).
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https://www.linuxfoundation.org/
Linux is an umbrella concept/base from which free operating systems are produced.
These initially intrigued me because of fundamental philosophies of freedom. Free as in freedom (Libre) and free as in beer (Gratis). Now it’s also about ease of use.
Note that you can remaster a distribution into your own customized one, with its own software, etc.
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aka distro(s)
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This is something like a placeholder or a dead project, and probably has more notes which have not been ported yet.
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https://amiga.com/
A legendary platform in its time, it’s not relegated to being an oldschool computer.
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An operating system too cool to be allowed to survive.
Completely dead, with all links I had collected being confirmed-abandoned.
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Haiku is the only live an open source effort I know of.
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A legendary platform in its time, it’s not relegated to being an oldschool computer.
This was a major project for a long while, as I made a pilgrimage to this platform and stuck with it as my only computing resource.
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Often given the shortform “c64”.
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C-One, a re-creation with more contemporary hardware.
coming later, maybe
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Windows 98se – 1999-05-05
- “Second edition”
- Windows 98 – Released 1998-06-25
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Windows 95 – Released 1995-08-24
coming later, maybe
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Released 1992-04-06
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Windows “3.12” was my modification to Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
2019-02-22 – Still in beta
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=guixsd
https://guix.gnu.org/
GuixSD is an advanced distribution of the GNU operating system developed by the GNU Project.
This looks interesting but I haven’t tried it. This is definitely something I’ll keep on my radar.
