:o no freaking way!
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Simón Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
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