Tiny Windows 10 & windows 11

 

Tiny10-21h2-x64,x86-NTDEV

Tiny10 21H2 2209 by NTDV

newer version of Tiny10 that includes Microsoft Edge and other features

includes both 64 bit and 32bit ISOs.

taken from https://youtu.be/4cF3UW5W980

https://archive.org/details/tiny-10-21h2-x64-2209

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8Bl6rUNx8w
A few months ago, we took a look at Tiny10, which was based off of Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019. However, since then, NTDEV has released Tiny10 21H2, which is based off LTSC 2021. In this video, we'll be taking a look at Tiny10 21H2 and seeing how it compares to the original version.

https://twitter.com/NTDEV_/status/1505656808576372753  Download link are dead, get from Archive.org above.

This related to Tiny11. 

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/21/tiny11-makes-windows-11-small/

https://archive.org/details/tiny-11_202302

Youtube channel of guy who's building these. 

https://www.youtube.com/ntdev

NFS mounts from a windows PC.

In order for Windows to mount and NFS partition you must first install  Windows Services for Unix (SFU)

SFU is also known as Interix.  This is windows flavor of Posix compatibility for NT and it considered a Unix Distro!!!

You can download the file from HERE:
Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5
SFU35SEL_EN.exe  (Direct download link)

The installed dumped the file in
 C:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME/Local Settings/Temp/

Before you install you will need to know about setting up user accounts with NIS or local username mapping, which is just uses simple password and group files.

I chose the local file option because I have no idea how my employer network is setup and didn't feel like contacting IT and going down that path.

Here are the files I chose to use.  It's really just something to shut the program up.


sokol@virtualxp /cygdrive/c
$ cat passwd
jsokol:x:15151:200:John Sokol:/home/jsokol:/bin/bash
sokol@virtualxp /cygdrive/c
$ cat group
engr:x:200:


Run setup to install this and then reboot.

Once Windows is back up, you can start adding NFS network shares. Do this in just the same way as you would add normal network shares in Windows. From File Explorer, select "Tools" and then "Map Network Drive". In the dialog, type the server/share address in the following format:

Code:

yourserver:/data

using the correct name or IP address for your server, and the correct path to your share. Remember the colon ( : ) !! Tick the Reconnect at Logon so that your shares persist through reboots. Windows firewall (or your own firewall) may block NFS Client on reboot, and should offer you the chance to unblock it.


Install SFU on XP Home
Making Windows Services for Unix (SFU) Install on XP Home Edition

- Take a hexeditor.

- Go to the directory where SFU has been extracted.
- Take file "SfuSetup.msi".
- Make a backup copy of it, just in case you commit an error...
- Open the file "SfuSetup.msi" in a hexeditor.
- Search for string "NOT (VersionNT = 501 AND MsiNTSuitePersonal)"
- Change 501 to 510
- Do not forget to click safe.

Finish. It works on my XP home.

How to install Client for NFS on Windows for a UNIX-to-Windows migration

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=310168

Customizing Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX Installation

'Cosmo' — a C#-Based Operating System

From Slashdot

"A new operating system called Cosmo has been developed, written entirely in C#. It shows the naysayers you can write a full OS kernel without C. So far, you need Visual Studio to compile and run it, as Mono is not supported. However, the source code can be compiled with the Express editions of Visual Studio. The project plans to add VB.NET support soon."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)

I can hardly believe it's possible. Doesn't C# need the .net stuff that requires Windows?

Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) not to be mistaken with Command Line Interface.

Common Intermediate Language (CIL),

Windows 8 Hyper-V and MinWin: A game changing strategy? | ITworld

http://www.itworld.com/virtualization/189289/windows-8-hyper-v-and-minwin-game-changing-strategy



http://www.osnews.com/story/25026/Windows_8_Hyper-v_and_MinWin_A_Game_Changing_Strategy_

 Microsoft seems to be "all in" with its virtualization strategy these days: back in June we heard word of a client-hypervisor (Hyper-V 3.0) built into Windows 8 and in mid-July, Hyper-V for the upcoming Windows Server 8 was publicly unveiled. And I've dug up evidence of a much bigger presence of MinWin in Microsoft's upcoming OS. So how is this fitting together? Is this the ultimate virtualization trio?

MinWin contains the bootloader, HAL (processor & chipset initialization, memory manager, etc), scheduler, most of the kernel infrastructure (sans most drivers, filesystems, etc) and some of the core Win32 subsystem upon which essential apps can be run.

To MinWin you can then configure an OS build by choosing which OS components you want to include from a catalog of items - NTFS, (ex)FAT, etc., TCP/IP & NETBIOS, SCSI/RAID, video, audio, printers, .NET, etc.

Windows Internals Book