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It's a running OS snapshot as a drive image, not a source tree, the sources are on the drive image.

As for GitHub itself: I am not going to further Microsoft's grip on the world of software development.



Thank you.

For taking a stand against Microsofts "social network", "ai training data", greed and proprietary tooling.

I think sharing the source code as you do now is a perfect choice is it is what you are most comfortable with.


I may end up working some more on it and releasing updated versions of the torrent. But I'm not going to be a 'maintainer', if I want unpaid work I'll volunteer at the local animal shelter instead.


Well, then go to codeberg.org




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