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gave ourselves all of January to get the loss32 prototype out the door and we have not forgotten about this

there'll be something downloadable by the end of 2026-01-31 (CET) unless we get hit by a truck or something

Massive bonus points if you ship it on a linux-libre ISO and get it listed as an FSF Approved system just like FreeDOS.
(my only experience with blobless Linux is running Trisquel with KDE for a week: totally unremarkable compared to other Debian/Ubuntu offspring (antix/MX, Q4os, Kanotix) aside from getting 10% longer battery life than usual)

RE: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01KG15QRS46X4HXY3K8WNZ2VHR

@hikari The only reason it wouldn't be embraced by the Stallmanites is that Win32 is still a living platform (despite MS's attempts to replace it with UWP or whatever) and that Wine gets better compatibility when using the official libraries.

An even funnier scenario would be if it went full circle and got ported to MS-DOS: as anything recent enough to run a current Wine could probably run it from Haiku, NetBSD or Corpo Unix just fine (I dunno).

I'm more interested in using it as a contained environment than as a replacement for Plasma and XFCE.

@hikari Frankly it'd just be nice to have a distro on the FSF list that isn't just a tedious offshoot of one that already exists.

I also suggest including a disassembler as one of the preloaded apps, to mitigate the effects of implicitly supporting Microsoft's monopoly and monoculture.