Running Linux in the browser
Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]>
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Via [ http://adblockplus.org/blog/running-linux-in-the-browser ] at [ http://bellard.org/jslinux/ ] cat /proc/version shows: Linux version 2.6.20 (bellard@voyager) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)) #3 Sat May 14 19:08:30 CEST 2011 ===== Running Linux in the browser · 2011-05-17 16:50 by Wladimir Palant I haven’t seen it mentioned on Planet yet, could it be that nobody heard? I’ve seen lots of cool browser demos lately but this one really blows me away: jslinux by Fabrice Bellard. This is a real x86 emulator written in JavaScript and running Linux, not a fake Linux terminal. The emulated hardware is somewhat limited (e.g. no FPU) but this doesn’t make packing an emulator into less than 20 kB of JavaScript code less impressive. The emulator loads a bunch of binary Linux images and — voilà, Linux boots up. It is also really fast, booting up takes 7 seconds in Firefox 4 for me, and all the other operations don’t take much longer than they would on a real system. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]