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Distributions and Operating Systems: EasyOS, CP/M, Asahi Linux, and PikaOS
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Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.1.1 released
Announcement for previous release: [...]
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Eerie Linux ☛ Playing with CP/M – part 2
CP/M was the most successful microcomputer operating system during the 8-bit era. It has been highly influential and is still very much worth exploring if you’re interested in operating system history, retro-computing or are simply looking for a fun lesson in minimalism (which is quite a grounding experience in times where we have gigabytes of memory and IT people at large seem to have lost any motivation to optimize and not waste resources).
The previous article covered working with disk images as well as sharing files between the emulated system and the host machine. If you’re completely new to CP/M and don’t know how to use it (or how to get started with emulation), you may want to one of my previous articles: “A Gentle Introduction to CP/M”.
In this part we’re going to take a look at some CP/M software.
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CCC ☛ Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
We'll cover how we reverse engineered the hardware without staring at disassembly but by using a thin hypervisor that traces all MMIO access and then wrote Linux drivers.
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ZDNet ☛ Gaming on Linux? I found a distro that makes it pain-free
Gaming on Linux has come a long way; PikaOS is one such distro that offers a user-friendly, out-of-the-box experience.