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It is an OS that is able to run Unix/Linux applications locally, in a terminal at the moment, with a graphical environment in the near future. Its microkernel i

It is an OS that is able to run Unix/Linux applications locally, in a terminal at the moment, with a graphical environment in the near future. Its microkernel is compiled from C to WebAssembly thanks to emscripten

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kaycebasques 3y ago
Is this the source? https://github.com/baudaux/exa https://github.com/baudaux/exa
- baudaux 3y ago
  The source of the changes I did in emscripten is also important for understanding the syscall mechanism
- baudaux 3y ago
  Yes, it is the source of the kernel. It is a POC at the moment. So please be indulgent :-)
ianbicking 3y ago
How much OS development/effort are you able to skip by building it on a browser/WASM instead of normal hardware? I don't know if you are effectively recreating a low-level machine on top of the browser's high-level APIs, or using the high-level APIs to skip substantial parts of the implementation. How serializable is the state of the OS? Can you freeze and move the image? What resources can't be preserved? (E.g., open sockets... but then you don't really get raw sockets on a browser anyway; still WebSockets/etc can't be transferred.)
- baudaux 3y ago
  It is a kind of micro kernel architecture. So the state is spread through resource manager and drivers. Real sockets are (will be) opened on server side. Websocket will be used for the tunnelling
  - koolala 3y ago
    Is a server required for exaquOS functionality? Beyond serving it of course, I'm excited to run all this stuff locally and requiring a server normally defeats the point of something running in a browser.
    - baudaux 3y ago
      The server is used for serving the files (mostly) and a few commands for netfs file system (in php at the moment). On my laptop, i have a local server in nodejs. Later on, the server will be used for the IP stack
- baudaux 3y ago
  A big effort, even if I do it during my spare time

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kaycebasques 3y ago

Is this the source? https://github.com/baudaux/exa https://github.com/baudaux/exa

baudaux 3y ago
The source of the changes I did in emscripten is also important for understanding the syscall mechanism
baudaux 3y ago
Yes, it is the source of the kernel. It is a POC at the moment. So please be indulgent :-)

ianbicking 3y ago

How much OS development/effort are you able to skip by building it on a browser/WASM instead of normal hardware? I don't know if you are effectively recreating a low-level machine on top of the browser's high-level APIs, or using the high-level APIs to skip substantial parts of the implementation. How serializable is the state of the OS? Can you freeze and move the image? What resources can't be preserved? (E.g., open sockets... but then you don't really get raw sockets on a browser anyway; still WebSockets/etc can't be transferred.)

baudaux 3y ago
It is a kind of micro kernel architecture. So the state is spread through resource manager and drivers. Real sockets are (will be) opened on server side. Websocket will be used for the tunnelling
- koolala 3y ago
  Is a server required for exaquOS functionality? Beyond serving it of course, I'm excited to run all this stuff locally and requiring a server normally defeats the point of something running in a browser.
  - baudaux 3y ago
    The server is used for serving the files (mostly) and a few commands for netfs file system (in php at the moment). On my laptop, i have a local server in nodejs. Later on, the server will be used for the IP stack
baudaux 3y ago
A big effort, even if I do it during my spare time