Offline media (and computing)
This is a really small “article”, the premise is that you should have some offline media so that you can (re)install the operating system on your machines, and locating what and how to download it is really complicated these days. Save the ISOs somewhere and don’t touch them until shit hits the fan.
Debian
Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software and proprietary software developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993.
Devuan
Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution that uses sysvinit, runit or OpenRC instead of systemd. Devuan aims to avoid “lock-in” by projects like systemd and aims to maintain compatibility with other init systems to avoid detaching Linux from other Unix systems.
Windows 11
Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021. It succeeded Windows 10 (2015) and is available for free for any Windows 10 devices that meet the new Windows 11 system requirements.
Don’t create a Microsoft Account when installing it (for obvious reasons), activate it using MAS or KMS.
Windows 10
Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft’s Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on July 29, 2015.
Don’t create a Microsoft Account when installing it (for obvious reasons), activate it using MAS or KMS.
Windows 7
Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available on October 22, 2009.
- official download not available anymore
- download page, x86 en, x64 en
Activate it using KMS.
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created January 19, 2024
words 362
tags #software, #offline, #off-the-grid
