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Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by wladimir »

sigil wrote: post #33

This is completely awesome. When I saw http://cb.vu a few years ago I thought hey, someone has finally done it, but that turned out to be a hack. Kudos to Bellard once again. Nitpicking: the terminal emulation is messed up. It keeps resizing horizontally, and less gets confused. I'm sure the terminal emulator was fun to play with. A correct vt100 state machine implementation [1] would probably not be quite as fun [2]…

Indeed, this is completely awesome. I first thought it was some remotely hosted virtual machine, but it really runs inside the browser. Insane! Especially considered how fast it is.

When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :')

Edit: seems the terminal emulator supports ANSI escape codes such as the 16 Linux colors, but not the XTerm 256 color mode (\e[38;5;CCm) or Konsole 24 bit (\e[38;2;RR;GG;BBm). Guess it could be easily added as it's HTML.

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by sigil »

wladimir wrote: post #51
sigil wrote: post #33

This is completely awesome. When I saw http://cb.vu a few years ago I thought hey, someone has finally done it, but that turned out to be a hack. Kudos to Bellard once again. Nitpicking: the terminal emulation is messed up. It keeps resizing horizontally, and less gets confused. I'm sure the terminal emulator was fun to play with. A correct vt100 state machine implementation [1] would probably not be quite as fun [2]…

Indeed, this is completely awesome. I first thought it was some remotely hosted virtual machine, but it really runs inside the browser. Insane! Especially considered how fast it is. When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Edit: seems the terminal emulator supports ANSI escape codes such as the 16 Linux colors, but not the XTerm 256 color mode (\e[38;5;CCm) or Konsole 24 bit (\e…

> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :')

Reddit has a meme for that. ;) (downvote away, I've earned it!)

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by plasma »

rickard wrote: post #27
terminus wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. That would be a whole interesting can of worms. Would need PCI/USB/whatever bus your ethernet card was on. Plus emulation of the selected ethernet card itself. Loopback (which is present) is so much simpler.

I guess a tun/tap to some server-side service might be possible too, but perhaps not very interesting. The x86 dynamic library api suggested in the tech notes sounds more useful. Edit: Easier idea might be adding ttyS1 and connecting that to a websocket on the server. Combined with something like socat or ppp, that ought to work. Since the console is already ttyS0 and connected to the js terminal, it might be doable…

Maybe power the network using a server side relay script and an ajax request?

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by shii »

jbk wrote: post #16

After FFmpeg (used in all your TVs and gadgets, very likely), QEmu (used also by Xen and VBox and other), tcc and his IOCC entries, the DVB-T emission with an ATI card, Fabrice comes, once again with something crazy... He is really impressive...

So pg was wrong, the greatest hackers don't use Lisp, they write in (and invent) obscure versions of C all day.

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by demallien »

jbk wrote: post #16

After FFmpeg (used in all your TVs and gadgets, very likely), QEmu (used also by Xen and VBox and other), tcc and his IOCC entries, the DVB-T emission with an ATI card, Fabrice comes, once again with something crazy... He is really impressive...

Pity me - I work in pretty much the same role as Fabrice in one of his company's direct competitors...

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by buluzhai »

eliben wrote: post #55

Fabrice Bellard is truly impressive. There's a nice article about him, called "Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Superproductive programmer", here: http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/03/fabrice-bel...

Another:http://www.freearchive.org/o/55dfc9935a719fc36ab1d1656797273...

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by wladimir »

srean wrote: post #42

Feel bad to miss out on this as I am on FF 3.6. But this remind reminded me of a service from a long time ago. Dont remember their name, this was some 10 years ago. But they used to provide a KDE desktop via the browser as a java applet. It was not terribly snappy, but quite surprisingly usable. Any one remembers this ?

With Guacamole (http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/) you can run a VNC session in Javascript, so you can have your desktop, but alas this still needs a remote (virtual) machine running the desktop.

Hmm if network emulation was added to the javascript VM you could combine it with this.

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