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63 different operating systems on a Powerbook 17"!

Amit Singh has published the details about to get at least 63 different operating systems up and running on a 17" Powerbook, using tools like Virtual PC and the like!

Some of the details about how to get the systems to run are quite interesting. For example, Solaris x86 doesn't boot by default under Virtual PC due to differing CPU vendor strings, the fix:

perl -pi -e 's#GenuineIntel#ConnectixCPU#g' solinst.iso

Awesome.

There's some nostalgic operating systems there like BeOS, OS2 Warp, and the most modern operating systems like BSD, Linux, Unix and Windows.

Still looking for a PPC virtualizer though, in fact it was even brought up a few days ago on TheAppleBlog in this article :)

Posted by crafterm at April 13, 2005 03:29 PM | TrackBack