[UFO Chicago] Now Taking Requests For Free Operating Systems

[Carl Karsten]

silly me.
https://www.zephyrproject.org/

"if you don't have enough space for linux."
it is what MicroPython would have used if it had existed at the time.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 5:54 PM Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com> wrote:
>
> boot straight into MicroPython.   it runs on bare mettle
> microcontrollers, no OS other than some OS like things that are part
> of the binary.
>
> https://micropython.org/
>
> I have no idea how much work this would be.  I would be surprised if
> no one has tried it.
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 2:26 PM Jay F. Shachter <jay at m5.chicago.il.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Esteemed Colleagues:
> >
> > One of my clients sent me a laptop on which Microsoft Windows had been
> > installed, because he needed me to teach an online class to a customer
> > who, for security reasons, insisted on using Adobe Connect rather than
> > Zoom for the videoconference platform, and the Adobe Connect client
> > only works properly on Windows, and I didn't own a laptop on which
> > Windows had been installed (except for one where it had been
> > installed, but it doesn't work).
> >
> > So now I had a laptop in my possession that could boot only Microsoft
> > Windows.  This is, of course, a waste of disk storage, and, although
> > disk storage might no longer be considered a scarce resource, laptop
> > computers still are.  I shrunk the Windows system (it still boots, and
> > none of its functionality has been impaired).  Onto the disk storage
> > thus reclaimed, I have installed 6 free operating systems (so there is
> > now a choice of 7 operating systems, when you boot this computer).
> > Three of the six are UNIX systems: Solaris 11.4, Springdale (an RHEL
> > clone) 9.0, and OpenBSD 7.3.  The other three are non-UNIX systems:
> > Haiku r1beta4, 9front (a fork of Plan 9), and FreeDOS 1.3.
> >
> > I have tried and failed to install ReactOS, Icaros, and SkyOS.  Also
> > NetBSD 9.3, which had problems with nouveau.  I have reason to think
> > that NetBSD 10 will have better drivers, and I am waiting for it to
> > become more stable.
> >
> > I am now taking requests.  I will bring this laptop to the next
> > in-person ufo meeting, and you may all play with it.  What other
> > operating systems do you want me to install on it?  In particular, the
> > Linux area has room for 2 or 3 more Linux distributions.  I figured
> > that one of them ought to be RHEL or an RHEL clone, but I have no
> > opinion about the others.  If you could only have 3 or 4 Linux
> > distributions on your computer, which ones ought you to have?  I also
> > have room for several more non-Linux operating systems.  Which ones do
> > you want to see installed on this computer?
> >
> >            Jay F. Shachter
> >            6424 North Whipple Street
> >            Chicago IL  60645-4111
> >                    (1-773)7613784   landline
> >                    (1-410)9964737   GoogleVoice
> >                    jay at m5.chicago.il.us
> >                    http://m5.chicago.il.us
> >
> >            "The best way to become famous is to come up with a memorable quote."
> >                                 -- anonymous
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>
>
> --
> Carl K



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Carl K