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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 5avage »

sigil wrote: post #53
wladimir wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!)

The Esteban one?

"I don't always write Linux Kernels"

"But when I do, it's in browser hosted Javascript"

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by fhars »

neopanz wrote: post #45
vessenes wrote: post #20

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Any Macarthur Grant folks floating around here? Take note! That's an impressive resume.

Great idea. That guy deserves it. Though I suspect he would be too modest to accept the money since he GNUed all his creations.

That does not necessarily imply modesty, there is another MacArthur grant winner who GNUed all his creations... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Recognition

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by hhdk »

angusgr wrote: post #39

I'm sad the source has been compressed so there's no easy human-readable View Source, like there was on the VAX emulator that came up a few weeks ago. :( Still awe-inspiring, though. :)

Paste the source at http://jsbeautifier.org/ - It makes the source readable

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by dkasper »

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…

No network connection yet either :(

~ # ifconfig

     lo   Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0    
                               
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1    
                          
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0  
                  
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0    
              
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0                              
               
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by limmeau »

neopanz wrote: post #45
vessenes wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any Macarthur Grant folks floating around here? Take note! That's an impressive resume.

Great idea. That guy deserves it. Though I suspect he would be too modest to accept the money since he GNUed all his creations.

In the days before KVM, he wrote a paravirtualization kernel module for QEMU (kqemu), gave away binaries and tried to sell the source. I don't know what happened with that business.
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