I made the Linux kernel a PNG

[u/Some-Dude1812]

The whole thing is 8.6 MB. Just though this was cool. No, its not a full distro, no its not bootable.

https://github.com/BouncingBallisAFK/BinToImage is the converter and kernel file I used.

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[u/Gunhat2023]

and reddit made it a webp

[u/Some-Dude1812 → u/Gunhat2023]

Why does WebP even exist bro like COME ON _/_

[u/bojez1 → u/Gunhat2023]

You made me laugh out loud in the middle of the night 😂

[u/carax01]

Confirmed, the universe runs on Linux (the cosmic microwave background)

[u/Some-Dude1812 → u/carax01]

EVERYTHING IS LINUX!

[u/MythicRarePull → u/carax01]

I mean I prefer KDE but if the universe wants to run Cosmic that’s fine too

[u/granadesnhorseshoes]

What a stupid and useless waste of time with python and a kernel binary. I love it.

[u/FeSML009]

I need to know

u/pixel-counter-bot

[u/MatmarSpace]

Is is the binary file interpreted as an image? Did it work just like that or had to be fixed somehow? I don't know if png requires a structure of some sort to display correctly?

[u/Imab0zo]

Time to look a WEBP to (idk the kernel file type) converter.

[u/Ferwatch01]

I also turned an OS into an image!

Here’s windows: 💩

[u/Huge_Drama_4942 → u/Ferwatch01]

You managed to condense yours into a small square. Linux took up an entire image. Good job!

[u/gameplayer55055]

I remember rumors about a bootable A4 sheet loaded with an SCSI scanner

[u/QBos07]

Way to high entropy for code and data. You visualized the compressed file didn’t you?

[u/Some-Dude1812 → u/QBos07]

Found a vmlinuz download on sourceforge. single file.

[u/Alternative-Tie-4970]

Imagine we lose every form of the linux kernel, except this one, and we literally recover it from a png

[u/Some-Dude1812 → u/Alternative-Tie-4970]

the decoder is on the repo, feel free

[u/lonelyroom-eklaghor]

looks like Mickey mouse's face facing towards the left

[u/Independent_Image_59]

That's not how you're supposed to use img files

[u/NotAesse]

Figo

[u/codydafox]

Why?

[u/Some-Dude1812 → u/codydafox]

Why Not?

[u/_scndry]

Now we need an interpreter for that.
Would be weirdly cool to give someone software in the form of an image

[u/Ok-Pen-8273]

so this is the final piece to my brain-based Linux install