GentleOS is a love letter to classic operating systems with a lovely retro GUI (opens in new tab)

In today’s climate, I needed this: GentleOS, an operating system targeting both 186 (GentleOS/32) and even processors as old as the 80186 (GentleOS/16), with a lovely retro graphical user interface, usable on bare metal, and, of course, open source. Its goal is to provide a simple platform for tinkering with retro hardware and running graphical interactive apps on bare metal. At minimum, it only requires an i386 CPU, 4MB of RAM, and a VGA display capable of 640x480x16 mode. By design it’s ent...