Re-posting from the BLUG list. Very cool stuff.
I've got Linux running on top of Javascript in Chromium which is, of course, running on Linux. Not too much to do, but fascinating proof of concept. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Krenz <[email protected]> Date: Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:09 AM Subject: [BLUG] Javascript Linux To: [email protected] In case you miss this news. A brilliant hacker by the name of Fabrice Bellard has written a simple x86 emulator in Javascript and it runs Linux: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ What he is able to pack into this mini Linux distro is amazing and reminds me of the old QNX demo disks that fit on a 1.44MB floppy. It even has a networking stack, emacs, vi, ping, wget, etc. and it boots in about 5 seconds. Which is surprising for javascript to be that fast and responsive. Try rm -fr / then press F5 to reinstall. ;-) Amazingly, the emulator and terminal code is under 100KB!!! You'll need Firefox 4 or Google Chrome 11 to run this. -- Mark Krenz Bloomington Linux Users Group http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/ Sent from Mutt using Linux _______________________________________________ BLUG mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
