oswatcher

OSWatcher is a tool designed for the preservation and analysis of historical operating system releases, allowing users to query a comprehensive graph of changes across OS versions from Windows 95 through 11 and Ubuntu 6.10 to 25.04. Using a Merkle graph model stored in Neo4j, it enables users to explore file evolutions, provenance of artifacts, and commonalities across releases, akin to a version control system for OS images. Notably, OSWatcher emphasizes offline image analysis rather than real-time monitoring, differentiating itself from similar tools like Oracle's OSWatcher Black Box.