I certainly am no expert in anything, but I tried this and it loads as
described under W2K-SP4+FireFox4....

John McKelvey

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Travis Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

> :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
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