These are recompiled versions of third-party operating systems with some small patches.
Note that these systems are early testing versions of ideally-stable versions of outdated or near-outdated open source operating system versions. Do not install them on your grandmother’s PC with the family photos, these are only intended as test builds for use in a VM.
A Simple HPC Solution
FreeBSD still rebuilds successfully, even on 32-bit i386 targets (which are being phased out starting with removal in 15.x):
https://SecureLang.net/release/OriginsHPC-14.4p01.zip
This build doesn’t include any notable patches, but is missing part of the FreeBSD upstream. Note that future “HPC” builds will probably be based on slightly updated upstream sources, but that 32-bit x86 support is ending in the main FreeBSD project (so 32-bit support will still “work” but any package hosting etc. will need to rely on smaller volunteer or business forks such as this).
Microkernel Builds With Test Branding
The patch p02 build successfully changes the CD label from MINIX to CeanFork branding (this needs to be modified in two parts of the source at the same time for a successful build, see /usr/src/DISTRO-CHANGES):
https://SecureLang.net/release/OriginsMK-3.1.8p02.zip
The patch p03 also adds a uname option allowing the system to report either the original or new/testing version information. This works by running uname -T to toggle between (this setting is currently global), with the default of using old uname information allowing scripts to run unmodified:
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