Re: Running Linux in the browser

> 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.

In a lot of ways, this reminds me of the Knoppix liveCD hack. And
see how far that idea has gone. With a javascript emulation of the
x86 cpu running Linux, more innovation is on tap!

-- 
Harish Pillay [email protected] gpg id: 746809E3

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