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Re: JSLinux

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Awesome, I suppose it's more energy efficient then jslinux and can be run on iOS, it might be a good alternative for A-Shell or iSH. I tried it on my a MacBook, but the keyboard input doesn't register.

Thanks for pointing this out, I've deployed a fix. One of my goals for the project is to create a useful computing environment on top of any arbitrary locked down platform, so I'd love to turn it into an iOS app at some point.

Dreamcast web browser? :)

Re: JSLinux

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My dream is have a in browser nixos vm on wasm. If I could have a bare vm, I can bootstrap it easily with a nixos config. From there I can start thinking about running web services in browser tabs instead of physical hardware.

Pretty sure this is possible already... What's stopping you?

I’ve tried to set this up and get a little bogged down on some of the finer points of compiling nixos to wasm. It’s not very straightforward unfortunately :/

Re: JSLinux

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"I'm implementing exec() support now" Bah. Details, details dismissive hand wave . It's just minimalism, right? I hear it's all the rage.

Leave it as an exercise to the reader.

I had to implement exec() on Unix V6 for my OS course at uni.

Re: JSLinux

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Please - anyone - announce a talk he is going to give. I would listen to him. I just heard Vint Cerf speak on martian probe networking.

I know what I’m listening to when I wake up

I know for a fact that ppl are serious on hn when they post in their sleep without any fanfare whatsoever

Re: JSLinux

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Fabrice does a great job at building these self-contained pieces of software which often grow to have lives of their own. As a lesser known example, JSLinux's terminal emulator was forked a few times and is now known as xterm.js, which has become the predominant web embeddable terminal emulator. This all comes full circle, because now I'm building a true successor to JSLinux that's way faster because I've natively co…

is there any command working ? ps, cat, vi, ed .. they all crash (I don't know enough about embedding busybox to know what to do)

You can hit Tab twice to get a list of commands that are available

Re: JSLinux

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https://taws.ch/ (Amiga OS) https://amiga.oszx.co/ https://www.file-hunter.com/AMIGA/ https://www.file-hunter.com/MSX/ (MSX! via WebMSX)

Is the UI of OS an emulation? First link says it's a simulation not an emulator.

But very useful nevertheless - and there’s full Amiga emulation in the other links.

Re: JSLinux

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This produces attempted to munmap ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 36 at kernel/exit.c:812 0x00000000 CPU: 3 PID: 36 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.1.132 # Stack: at vmlinux.o.__warn (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[278]:0x17655) at vmlinux.o.warn_slowpath_fmt (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[279]:0x1772b) at vmlinux.o.do_exit (https:/…

yep, that's to be expected, this is a very wip demo. I'm implementing exec() support now, so currently only shell builtins work.

I got that with echo * which you suggested to use :)

I opened that on my Android Phone and half expected it not to boot at all. But it does. I have no idea about the state of WASM n stuff, but apparently, it's much more eadvanced than I anticipated. Mind blown.

Re: JSLinux

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Can you name some that invite comparison with FB?

I'd do less comparison and more recognition. Some of these are kind of old or from the past and I'm no expert and the list is very incomplete but: Jean Ichbiah - big contributor to Ada Alain Colmerauer - creator of Prolog Jean-Marie Hullot - iCal, iSync, NeXTSTEP GUI builder, CTO of Applications at Apple in early 2000s Philippe Kahn - founder of Borland, inventor of first camera-phone Olivier Fourdan - creator of Xfc…

> I'd do less comparison and more recognition.

Not to be overly snarky, but it's a good thing, since none of those people's output is comparable to FB's. The thought there might be another programmer like him was an interesting one to entertain...

Re: JSLinux

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I'd do less comparison and more recognition. Some of these are kind of old or from the past and I'm no expert and the list is very incomplete but: Jean Ichbiah - big contributor to Ada Alain Colmerauer - creator of Prolog Jean-Marie Hullot - iCal, iSync, NeXTSTEP GUI builder, CTO of Applications at Apple in early 2000s Philippe Kahn - founder of Borland, inventor of first camera-phone Olivier Fourdan - creator of Xfc…

> I'd do less comparison and more recognition. Not to be overly snarky, but it's a good thing, since none of those people's output is comparable to FB's. The thought there might be another programmer like him was an interesting one to entertain...

For sure! But then the output set might be smaller and we need to recognize the good.

Statically there’s probably others working in private, not publishing in open.

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