#i'm also about to google solaris and bsd out of curiosity

[antagonist-chan]

So, I've got VirtualBox, a virtual machine program, on my computer, as I've been mentioning a lot lately. I primarily installed it because I just switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu Linux; as such, the main virtual machine on it is running Windows 10, so I can continue to use programs that don't work on Linux (primarily MMD and the Office suite; I've abandoned a lot of the programs I used to use on Windows in favor of Linux alternatives, but MMD doesn't really HAVE alternatives (in that way, it's kinda less of a 3D graphics program and more of a game) and the Office suite is kinda necessary for certain bits of schoolwork).

However, at the moment, I'm installing a second virtual machine that's running a different version of Linux- Fedora. Why? Is it because I'm second-guessing Ubuntu and considering a different Linux distro? Not really, I've been perfectly happy with Ubuntu so far. Rather, it's because I'm taking a Linux class in school right now, and Fedora is the version of Linux that this class is working with. So, I'm installing Fedora so I can do my homework.

Anyways, in setting up this Fedora VM, I remembered what options VirtualBox gives me. When I first tell it to create a new VM, it gives me options for what OS it's gonna be running. The options? Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, IBM OS/2, Mac OS X, and Other. Then, of course, the second question is what version of that OS it's gonna be using (Oh, Windows? Is it gonna be 3.1, XP, 7, 10? Oh, Linux? Is it gonna be 2.2? Ubuntu? Fedora? openSUSE?).

In any case, I find it amusing that those are my main options. I've never heard of Solaris or BSD, and the only reason I've heard of OS/2 is because I've been watching a lot of videos about computing technology from the 80's lately. And yet, apparently there are more people trying to run OS/2 VMs than DOS ones. I mean, I guess it's not really THAT surprising- I mean, who the hell would WANT to run a VM of DOS? If you want a DOS experience on a modern computer, why not just use the Windows command line? And if you want a FULL DOS experience, why not just use a vintage computer?- just, I've known about the existence of DOS since... basically the first time I ever started looking into the history of old PCs AT ALL, but I only know OS/2 due to... basically online documentaries. I mean, to be fair, those documentaries also talked about how OS/2 is apparently still in surprisingly large use in things like cash registers and ATMs, and there are still a lot of OS/2 enthusiasts, but I don't see cash registers or ATMs needing virtual machines to run, and I don't see OS/2 enthusiasts installing it on a VM- if anything, they'd have OS/2 as their host and install Windows or Linux on a VM.

As much as I'm making fun of the idea, simply knowing that VirtualBox can virtualize OS/2 does make me kinda wanna download an ISO of OS/2 and run a VM of it, just to see what it's like if nothing else.