Yes, how are you reading it, It is now possible to run Windows 95 as one more application within your operating system. Although many will come to say "But this has been possible for many years with a virtual machine".
As some of our readers will know that we have more than two decades of life, the launch of Windows 95 was an important moment in the history of computing.
Without a doubt, an operating system that many of you will remember, with that feeling of novelty and practicality that its interface conveyed.
After all these years like 1995, there have been many innovations, built-in technologies, after more than 20 years and many new versions, now you can retest Windows 95 which is now available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
However, developer Felix Rieseberg has just released version 1.0 of Windows 95 as a 'free app.
About the Windows 95 application for Linux
Recently, the Windows 95 operating system became a simple application, with the help of electron that this was done, and that it can also work on Linux, Mac, and even within Windows 10 itself.
The approximate weight of this application is 130 MB, its source code, and installation tools were presented by the author on Github.
In the emulator, you can run a program like Paint and Wordpad and the game that made more than one nostalgic and that was once quite popular "Minesweeper" and "lonely" in addition to having the original Windows 95 applications with some exceptions such as the fact that Internet Explorer refuses to load the page.
The emulator can run within it, the Doom game, which although Rizeberg points out that it was a joke and the game earned the opportunity and in general argues that it is better to use it directly through application virtualization.
Let's know that the operating system is contained under electron technology which gives us the possibility to use this operating system using HTML and CSS.
The application consumes approximately 200 MB of RAM, even if it runs all the utilities, programs, games, and Windows 95 that are built into the emulator.
If something stops working, Windows 95 just has to perform a restart which we can do right inside the emulator.
According to developer Felix Rieseberg, you will get the full Windows 95 experience after installing and running the new application with the help of electron, no matter what operating system you are currently using.
This Windows 95 emulator built with electron works quite well even though it is meant as a joke.
Download the Windows 95 application for Linux
If you are interested, in being able to try this application only out of pure curiosity, You should know that it can be used both in the most modern Windows operating systems, but also in Mac and Linux. To download it you just have to go to the official GitHub page, where you will find all the versions and, if desired, the source code.
In the same way, if you prefer, you can download the indicated packages for distribution with these commands.
If they are Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, RHEL or Any system derived from these or with support for RPM packages must download this package.
wget https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases/download/v1.2.0/windows95-linux-1.2.0.-linux-x86_64.rpm
And the install with:
sudo dnf install windows95-linux-1.2.0.-linux-x86_64.rpm
Now if they are users of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any system derived from these, you should download this deb package.
wget https://github.com/felixrieseberg/windows95/releases/download/v1.2.0/windows95-linux_1.2.0_amd64.deb
And they proceed to install the downloaded package with their preferred package manager or from the terminal with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i windows95-linux_1.2.0_amd64.deb
Finally, in case you have problems with the dependencies, they are solved with this command:
sudo apt install -f
And voila, you can use this application on your systems to remember old times.
Similarly, those interested can review the source code of the application shared by the developer Felix Rieseberg.