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Indeed, this is completely awesome. I first thought it was some remotely hosted virtual machine, but it really runs inside the browser. Insane! Especially consi

Indeed, this is completely awesome. I first thought it was some remotely hosted virtual machine, but it really runs inside the browser. Insane! Especially considered how fast it is. When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Edit: seems the terminal emulator supports ANSI escape codes such as the 16 Linux colors, but not the XTerm 256 color mode (\e[38;5;CCm) or Konsole 24 bit (\e[38;2;RR;GG;BBm). Guess it could be easily added as it's HTML.

sigil 15y ago
> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Reddit has a meme for that. ;) (downvote away, I've earned it!)
- 5avage 15y ago
  The Esteban one? "I don't always write Linux Kernels" "But when I do, it's in browser hosted Javascript"
  - StavrosK 15y ago
    The "yo dawg".
    - false 15y ago
      or the INCEPTION for that matter :)
- smokeyj 15y ago
  HN would appreciate if you left reddit at reddit.
dkasper 15y ago
No network connection yet either :( ~ # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B
- mnutt 15y ago
  This would require a server-side component, as the browser has cross-domain limitations and couldn't generate arbitrary network traffic anyway. You could tunnel through websockets, however.
Maxious 15y ago
> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Skip the middle man, output gtk via html5 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-update/ http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-upd... (I don't actually know if it still has dependencies on X11 :P)
- wladimir 15y ago
  That would be even better. One could make a Linux device driver to directly access Canvas, WebGL, or even the DOM. It seems that in my post I used "X" as a generic name for "Linux graphics" which is pretty short-sighted.
- bzbarsky 15y ago
  Gecko's GTK backend has dependencies on X11, if that's what you were asking about.
starwed 15y ago
Interestingly, you can run Firefox inside of Firefox... just enter the url: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
- bhoung 15y ago
  why??
  - windsurfer 15y ago
    Because XUL is rendered with gecko.
CountHackulus 15y ago
Sadly my dreams were also crushed when I discovered that lynx wasn't in there. However, wget is there, so all the building blocks are in place.
- anc2020 15y ago
  As far as I can guess, any networking implementation would have to pass low level requests through a proxy on the server, which would end up making things pretty slow even on an unburdened server.

sigil 15y ago

> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Reddit has a meme for that. ;) (downvote away, I've earned it!)

5avage 15y ago
The Esteban one? "I don't always write Linux Kernels" "But when I do, it's in browser hosted Javascript"
- StavrosK 15y ago
  The "yo dawg".
  - false 15y ago
    or the INCEPTION for that matter :)
smokeyj 15y ago
HN would appreciate if you left reddit at reddit.

dkasper 15y ago

No network connection yet either :( ~ # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B

mnutt 15y ago
This would require a server-side component, as the browser has cross-domain limitations and couldn't generate arbitrary network traffic anyway. You could tunnel through websockets, however.

Maxious 15y ago

> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Skip the middle man, output gtk via html5 http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-update/ http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-upd... (I don't actually know if it still has dependencies on X11 :P)

wladimir 15y ago
That would be even better. One could make a Linux device driver to directly access Canvas, WebGL, or even the DOM. It seems that in my post I used "X" as a generic name for "Linux graphics" which is pretty short-sighted.
bzbarsky 15y ago
Gecko's GTK backend has dependencies on X11, if that's what you were asking about.

starwed 15y ago

Interestingly, you can run Firefox inside of Firefox... just enter the url: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

bhoung 15y ago
why??
- windsurfer 15y ago
  Because XUL is rendered with gecko.

CountHackulus 15y ago

Sadly my dreams were also crushed when I discovered that lynx wasn't in there. However, wget is there, so all the building blocks are in place.

anc2020 15y ago
As far as I can guess, any networking implementation would have to pass low level requests through a proxy on the server, which would end up making things pretty slow even on an unburdened server.