GoKawiilThis was the first Linux OS I ever used. Jack Wallen/ZDNET
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The Virtual OS Museum gives you a peek at old-school OSes.
You can run any one of hundreds of operating systems.
All you need to make this free tool work is VirtualBox.
Every so often, a Linux project comes to my attention that makes me rejoice over this amazing operating system and how far it's come.
One such initiative -- recently brought to my attention -- truly blew me away. It's called the Virtual OS Museum.
With VirtualBox, this museum lets you run various operating systems that are no longer around. Essentially, what you do is download a zipped file, unzip it, change into the newly created directory, and run the executable. VirtualBox then opens to a Debian Linux instance, where you can select from a very long list of operating systems to run.
Also: How to connect to a VirtualBox virtual machine from your LAN
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