Someone Wants Linux to Still Boot 1,000 Years From Now

Eternal is an open-source project that runs Linux on a tiny virtual machine designed for long-term software preservation.

blarth 51 points 4 days ago

I’m also someone.

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Nioxic 45 points 4 days ago

Thats how the avengers beat kang in the cartoon

Kang who comes from a couple thousand years in the future uses a modified version of iron mans operating system

So iron man is able to exploit it

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Grail 14 points 4 days ago

This implies Tony knows of a zero day nobody else could find, and didn't bother to tell anyone for thousands of years.

Respect, that's old school.

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haroldfinch 23 points 4 days ago

If Idiocracy is any indication, the Eternal OS might be capable of booting, but the people won't be able to do it.

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cm0002 22 points 4 days ago

Yea, that movie is pretty dumb tho, no way any of that could actually happen ~ Naive teen me

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Mihies 16 points 4 days ago

If only that'd happen, not the much worse crap we are seeing these days. ~ me, today

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python 8 points 4 days ago

I should get into selling Electrolytes ~ Smart teen me

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Uli 4 points 4 days ago

If there's still turkey in the fridge, I'm totally having sandwich ~ hungry teen me

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umbraroze 13 points 4 days ago

You may have heard of "rewrite it in Rust", now get ready to rewrite it in COBOL

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Flagstaff 5 points 4 days ago

But can COBOL run Doom?

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bacon_pdp 10 points 4 days ago

Them, completely failing to realize that isn’t the hard part.

This is

https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap

Because instead of a massive set of binary blobs, you have a small set of simple tools with easy to implement specifications. That result in everything you need.

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inari 5 points 4 days ago

Yes, me

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pglpm 4 points 3 days ago

A bit sad that Turing's machine isn't mentioned anywhere in their pages – but maybe I just missed the mention.

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over_clox 4 points 3 days ago

At the rate we're going, humans will either be extinct by then, or people will only know how to read and write in hieroglyphics emojis..

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GalacticGrapefruit 2 points 4 days ago

Genuinely, this is brilliant. If this works, it'll mean that the massive chunk of our culture that lives on the internet won't be lost completely. I wish them luck.

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quick_snail 1 point 3 days ago

Isn't this the idea of docker?

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