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<title>Twister OS</title>
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<li><a href="index.html">HOME</a></li>
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<li><a href="gallery.html">GALLERY</a></li>
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<li><a href="about.html">ABOUT</a></li>
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<h3 class="">About Twister OS <span><h6 style="margin-top: -1px; margin-bottom: -10px;">A note from our founder</h6></span></h3>
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Twister OS is the successor of Raspbian 95, Raspbian XP, Raspbian X, Raspbian X Nighthawk
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and iRaspbian (The Last two being made by Grayduck) It was a personal project done by me, Salvador.
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With the idea that the Raspian Pixel Desktop wasn't enough, I created Raspbian 95/XP. In terms of
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productivity, XFCE was a much better desktop and adding some emulator would make make both worlds
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(gaming and desktop) merged as one build. Twister OS is built on the official Raspbian Pi OS with
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themes designed to appear like operating systems they are themed after, but they are no operating
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systems by themselves. With that said, Software updates for Twister OS relies upon the Raspberry Pi
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Foundation while internal changes to themes and included software are updated by us via patches.
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The second and maybe most important part weren't the themes themselves (That Grayduck a friend I made
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through this process and now copropietary of Pi Labs Youtube channel demonstrating all his assets doing
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that part much better than I), but was Box86. Box86 is an emulator developed by ptitSeb that vanishes the
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borders between ARM Linux and x86 Linux, being able to automatically execute (with some kind of success)
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x86 Linux binaries and Wine x86 without any complex process like we suffer on other slow and painful
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implimentations, like Exagear (not open sourced and abandoned) or Qemu with chroots and VM's.
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Windows on ARM Operating System is another closed source non Linux way of running x86 software on
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the Raspberry Pi 4. While it has a fast dynarec, it does everything through software and from my perspective
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that's not a good approach, like it wasn't on Exagear. There is another thing, even with Microsoft getting
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involved and making a driver for it, it would be limited to just the Raspberry Pi 4. Box86 and Linux can run
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anywhere, especially with open source MESA drivers, it's not limited to just the Raspberry Pi 4. Box86 can run
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on the Odroid N2, C4, any RK3399 and many other single board computers.
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With the idea of being able to execute x86 software with a fast dynarec plus GPU acceleration opens the
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future of cheap ARM linux handhelds or laptops that would be able to run x86 Linux and Windows software (with
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Box86 and Wine x86). I would like to thank ptitSeb for his continuing development of Box86 and all the MESA
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driver developers to keep working on GPU's that are really constrained on capabilities and giving them features that
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weren't meant for them, especially on Panfrost. Grayduck, the artist behind Twister OS, and Phoenixbyrd to
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the support on Discord and this official site.
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<div align=right style="margin-top: 25px; ">Salvador.</div>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgfQjdc5RceRlTGfuthBs7g"><img src="images/PiLabs.png" width="200px"></a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86"><img src="images/Box86Logo.png" width="200px"></a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/Jack477/CommanderPi"><img src="images/CPiTitle.png" width="300px"></a></li>
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<footer style="margin-top: 75px;"><p>Twister OS 2020 | <a href="https://discord.gg/Fh8sjmu" target="_blank">Join our Discord!</a></p></footer>
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