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Testers wanted, and pocket donations

March 19, 2008 by Emanuele Cipolla

Hi there. I’m in the process of preparing several new images – one of them should be, at last, OpenSUSE 10.0, and a fixed FreeDOS 1.0 one.
As I have time, I would like to receive some more feedback, especially from Windows users: there are reportedly troubles in the steps to follow to load images, or simply I’ve done wrong assumptions.

The title also talks about donations: we are not in a hurry about that, but as this site is getting “hotter”, I would like to buy a second-level domain; I had planned to do that sometime during the next summer, but if you have some spare bucks and want to use them, it’s time to stop wondering how to 🙂 :

Register to WordPress.com, and log in.
In your Global Dashboard, click on Updates (the last link on the right in the menu bar), and then on Gifts. Set the username to gsdefender, and choose how much you want to send me.

Domain buyout + setup costs 15$. If you live in the E.U., you should have a “fair” 😉 conversion rate.

Stay tuned.

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Puppy Linux image by Johann Loefflmann

March 4, 2008 by Emanuele Cipolla

Yesterday I received an e-mail by Johann Loefflmann. Johann has installed Puppy Linux 3.01 on a VirtualBox® image and wanted me to share it with you. Johann wrote:

Hi Emanuele,
my name is Johann and I’m from Germany. I found your page quite useful!

I have created instructions how to install Puppy Linux 3.01 in a Virtualbox. See also http://www.jonelo.de/os/how-to-install-puppy-linux-3.01-on-virtualbox.txt
An actual Virtual machine can be downloaded from http://www.jonelo.de/java/bigal/#Download.
Why? Go to http://www.jonelo.de/java/bigal/index.html#virtual if you would like to know my motivation for that task. Feel free to use my instructions or the machine for your project 🙂
[…]

This image includes BigAl, a piece of Java software written by Johann that does complex calculations. Someone might find interesting to use.

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The project isn’t dead

February 26, 2008 by Emanuele Cipolla

Some of my boxes are, though.
I’m in the process of replacing them with some spare hardware. Please be patient.

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MINIX 3.1.2 image released

January 27, 2008 by Emanuele Cipolla

A minimal MINIX 3.1.2 image has been released. You can grab it here.

Note that, as the MINIX kernel AFAIK does not support the network
card VirtualBox emulates, you’ll have to download the official ISO image to add new packages through packman, the MINIX 3 package manager.

Filed under News Tagged with 3.1, 3.1.2, andrew s. tanenbaum, ast, minix, minix 3, operating systems