On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 04:42:02PM +0100, Pouya Tafti wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, at 15:06, [email protected] wrote:
> > Fabrice Bellard has developed a VM in JavaScript (!!!) allowing to
> > run an OS in a browser. See: https://bellard.org/jslinux/
> >
> > This was brought to my attention by a teacher wanting to teach TeX and
> > litterate programming to students without the need for them to install
> > anything.
>
> Even if you didn't want to install anything, why run an entire
> VM+OS+application in the browser, as opposed to a lightweight client talking
> to a server?
>
> Just a thought.
There are obviously other ways to do it. But I know from experience that
when you have to deal with some IT managers in big organizations,
requiring to install anything is an ordeal, specially if it is not MS
Windows.
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