Run Linux in your browser
I don't know if this has been posted or not, but I saw it on Slashdot and though it was pretty cool..
This Fabrice Bellard fellow has written an x86 emulator in JavaScript that boots Linux in your browser (requires FF 4 or chrome it seems). http://bellard.org/jslinux/ It seems he also has some other pretty amazing acomplishments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard |
http://www.urbanlegends.com ... :rolleyes:
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Been out a long time. http://jpc.sourceforge.net/home_home.html
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Java != JavaScript. They're not even closely related. |
Run linux in your browser was the topic.
JPC is more advanced and really useful right now. I think the world of qemu and bellards work on it but this is really useless at this point. http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html |
Is there any practical use for JS/Linux?
If you haven't heard, Fabrice Bellard (the developer of QEMU) created JS/Linux, a Javascript PC Emulator.
He then compiled a 2.6.20 Linux kernel and put together a mini distro that's up and running and you can actually play with root access in a shell right here! (Though you must have a very modern browser.) There's an article in The-H about it. Is this cool or what? No wait! That was rhetorical, it's not the question. This little demo isn't practical since there is no network connectivity, and I couldn't see anyway to access a real file system. So there would clearly need to be some more development. But here's the real question: Is there any practical use for this? I hope so, but I can't think of anything. |
well, at te very least this is proof that javascript is a very useful tool
seriously though, this might be a beginning of a new level of application sandboxing within browsers |
I don't know of any practical use for it (at this time), but it's definitely cool!:cool: :cool: :cool:
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jslinux
Uses? Talk about a secure sandbox for testing!
It may also be an interesting place for a newby to study command-line use and shell scripting. I can see expanding upon the concept to create useful cases. Things I now use virtual machines for might transfer to such an environment. Mostly it is just a REALLY NEAT TOY! One I would not have thought to create myself, and one that has earned my respect for the author. |
Not useful yet or maybe never.
Look at JPC for something that is useful (java not script) right now. |
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It turns out that JPC is a legitimate x86 PC emulator that runs in Java, just like you said. And it runs DSL. And you can run a demo right on the JPC site. Impressive. Both of these are fascinating and surprising, though I still can't think of any real use for them beyond the fun they provide in messing with them, or maybe some kind of demo. |
In a very real sense things like virtual machine software was at one time this basic.
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Moved to Linux-Virtualisation
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