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Neil Waldhauer:
The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors

From the Register:

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/23/the-virtual-os-museum-opens-its-doors/5243459

The Virtual OS Museum is an epic collection of historically significant operating systems, representing more than 600 OSes across upwards of 250 platforms. It's all local, so you'll need a good few gigs of space.

This includes several versions of OS/2.

Martin Iturbide:
Thanks Neil

It is kind of cool:
- https://virtualosmuseum.org/downloads/
But, as you told, it is big:
- Full edition (121G zipped, 174G unzipped)
- Lite edition (14G zipped, 21G unzipped)

I will be checking it out, seems that the Lite version is only the basic stuff, and you download the historic OS on demand.

Regards

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

I tried out the lite version on Windows.
It is a VirtualBox implementation with a Debian image that has the "Virtual Museum Launcher". This linux application gives you a variety of legacy OSes you can install.

It took me sometime to understand it, but basically you can search the OS/2 on the bottom part of the app.
It will download the OS Virtual image and make it run. On the case of Warp 4, running on Virtualbox, inside a Debian Virtualbox, it was not good.

But it is kind of nice project, currently all images are in English, but who knows, it can grow to have different languages in time. Yes, it is massive.

Regards

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