Run Windows 95 on Linux Mint, Debian, Deepin and Ubuntu Flavour
someone just packed the very old Windows 95 operating system in an Electron app, which can be installed on any platform thanks to GitHub's open-source framework for building and distributing universal binaries on Windows, Linux, and Mac systems.
What's New in windows95 v1.2 :
added a few features and cleaned a few things up, notably:- You can now mount the disk image (on Windows 10 and macOS)
- The app auto-updates (Windows does not, it'll stay on Windows 95)
- You can now see the CPU and HDD working
- You can now send Ctrl + Alt + Del and reboot the machine from the window menu
Here's how to run Windows 95 on Linux, Mac, and even Windows
If you want to install Windows 95 on your GNU/Linux distribution or on your Mac computer, or even better on your Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 PC, you can download the Electron app for your operating system right now from Felix Rieseberg's GitHub page, install and run it.
Mac users need only to extract the archive and double click the app to use it. It's that simple! And voilà, you're running a full-featured Windows 95 operating system, just like back in the days when personal computers were invented. To exit the app, simply press the Esc key on your keyboard.
For GNU/Linux users, the Windows 95 Electron app is available as both RPM and DEB packages so you can install it on a wide-range of Debian or Red Hat-based operating systems. The source code is available in all its glory on GitHub, where you can check out other interesting work by developer Felix Rieseber.
How to Install Windows 95 on Linux Mint, Debian, Deepin and Ubuntu Flatform ?
Open termnial and follow this command :
wget https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases/download/v1.2.0/windows95-linux_1.2.0_amd64.deb
Install deb package on your ubuntu system, and run install -f to complete install depedencies :
sudo dpkg -i windows95-linux_1.2.0_amd64.debsudo apt-get install -f
After installation is completed, open WIndows 95 on ubuntu dashboard :
Start windows 95
