Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

The page was near-unreadable for me because the CSS uses the font stack "courier,fixed,swiss,sans-serif", and courier is just too thin and wispy against a black background. I opened Firebug and changed the CSS declaration to be "monospace" and then all was right with the world.

That said, it's a phenomenal achievement, and should be a great way for websites to demonstrate command-line tools to people. :)

(also: browsers let you store more information with DOM Local Storage than you could in a cookie; If you could expose that to Linux as a block device...)

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by rickard » Tue, May 17, 2011, 5:53 AM UTC

neopanz wrote: post #2

Not sure how long ago he posted this. This guy never ceases to amaze me. He's the Grigori Perelman of Hackerdom.

3 days. See http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html , linked from the page source.

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by mikeytown2 » Tue, May 17, 2011, 5:55 AM UTC

Anyone know how to get the network working? ping/wget don't work. But seriously, this is pretty flippin sweet!

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by hedgehog » Tue, May 17, 2011, 5:56 AM UTC

neopanz wrote: post #2

Not sure how long ago he posted this. This guy never ceases to amaze me. He's the Grigori Perelman of Hackerdom.

Not long ago:

Last-Modified: Mon, 16 May 2011 21:14:50 GMT

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by EGreg » Tue, May 17, 2011, 5:57 AM UTC

this is some crazy shit

Re: Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.

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Post by vessenes » Tue, May 17, 2011, 5:58 AM UTC

My favorite bit:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

...

f00f bug: yes

#

Hah!

20 bogomips by the way, at least on Chrome on a MacBook Pro.

I sense a whole new era of browser performance testing..