Winter is coming and Collapse OS aims to soften the blow. It is a Forth (why Forth?) operating system and a collection of tools and documentation with a single purpose: preserve the ability to program microcontrollers through civilizational collapse. It is designed to:
- Run on minimal and improvised machines.
- Interface through improvised means (serial, keyboard, display).
- Edit text and binary contents.
- Compile assembler source for a wide range of MCUs and CPUs.
- Read and write from a wide range of storage devices.
- Assemble itself and deploy to another machine.
Additionally, the goal of this project is to be as self-contained as possible. With a copy of this project, a capable and creative person should be able to manage to build and install Collapse OS without external resources (i.e. internet) on a machine of her design, built from scavenged parts with low-tech tools.
This is good and all, but i think i'd rather stick with linux and all the code available to it.
A better thing for a world-wide collapse might be an archive/library of books and information covering everything about how to restart society. Everything from how to make a shelter, how to make basic medicines, surgery, how to find ores for more advanced things. how to make a makeshift power generator with a stream/river, how to build shelter, how to farm, how to build all types of weapons, etc.
People could download them to their low-powered e-reader (solar power charged), or print them off before hand (or after the collapse if they can somehow find a working computer, printer and the paper) everything required to restart society should be in everyone's hands.
so data hoarding (digital or physical), we could do a post on that too