luke8086/gentleos32
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A fantasy OS for vintage 32-bit PCs
6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2026-06-07 · latest 2026-06-09
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…of the "bare metal OS" when I see one of the apps call `krn_\*` functions directly [2]. [1]: https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/blob/main/kernel/main... [2]: https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/blob/ea691f14635c023d...
comment by aktau · 2026-06-09 · in Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs -
…from the last photo, I'll admit that :) Btw. the QEMU screenshots are still in the repo in https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/tree/main/doc/appimg
comment by luke8086 · 2026-06-09 · in Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs -
…this OS :) Either all pictures are AI generated using QEMU templates that were there previously https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/commit/d40576226b7020... or those are real pictured beautified by AI. YT loves doing that to thumbnails,…
comment by rasz · 2026-06-09 · in Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs -
There seems to be an 8 meg image here: https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos32/releases/download/202...
comment by valleyer · 2026-06-09 · in Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs -
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GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUIstory by tekkertje · 2026-06-09 · 2 comments
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Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCsstory by luke8086 · 2026-06-07 · 106 comments