🤔 Someone Wants Linux to Still Boot 1,000 Years From Now
｢ Eternal tries to make this problem simpler. Instead of expecting people in the future to rebuild today’s hardware and software, it defines a machine so basic that its design can be written down in a tiny format. According to the project site, the reference virtual machine is about 30 lines of pseudocode, and the GitHub README says the C version is around 50 lines ｣
https://linuxiac.com/someone-wants-linux-to-still-boot-1000-years-from-now/
#preservation #linux #opensource
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