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I was hoping it was a finished version of http://bellard.org/jslinux/ http://bellard.org/jslinux/

wslh 13y ago
Same expectation here. Deploying a customized VM to the browser (with networking included) will be very interesting. I am not sure about the real use cases. For learning development will be useful since you don't need to do a more complex interaction between the browser and your server.
- robertelder 13y ago
  Unfortunately, full networking capability as it exists in a typical virtual machine (like Virtualbox), will not be possible in pure javascript. Security features of the browser like the same origin policy restrict this from being possible. Even if you were to use some of the exceptions to the same origin policy, you will be limited to sending HTTP requests. There is no way to send a UDP packet from javascript for example. Of course you can create browser extensions which expose these utilities, but then you're taking the easy way out :)
zeckalpha 13y ago
I was hoping it used http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html
g3 13y ago
Just give me one more month, I'm almost there ...
xhrpost 13y ago
Would be neat for a project like this to go open source and accept community submissions. Not sure why the author of jsLinux didn't go that route.
- rhelmer 13y ago
  Fabrice Bellard is the author of qemu and ffmpeg (among other things), so it is likely he is aware of the benefits of open source and it is a conscious decision (maybe there is interest from someone with relatively deep pockets, or maybe he considers it too hacky?) Don't want to speak for him here though. I do wonder how qemu compiled via emscripten would compare though...
  - oscargrouch 13y ago
    Fabrice Bellard is the Chuck Norris of all hackers.. its a waste of time trying to figure out what his superior mind could be thinking :)
oscargrouch 13y ago
anybody just typed: $ ls $ gcc hello.c -o hello
itry 13y ago
Unbelievable. I tried, echo, ls, find, grep, top, ping, whoami, ps, wget, vi, emacs. Everything is there. All in my browser in Javascript? This is fucking cool. I would love a complete vim in javascript that I can use to replace textareas. This would make it possible to simply use the vim.
- thousande 13y ago
  http://codemirror.net/ http://codemirror.net/ I am not a vim user, but I guess this gets close: http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
  - itry 13y ago
    Interesting! Thanks, will look into it!
  - daGrevis 13y ago
    It's the best attempt I've seen so far, but still it's very close from _the real Vim_. See this: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems .
- e12e 13y ago
  The real wtf is installing tcc and running hello-world with a shebang...

wslh 13y ago

Same expectation here. Deploying a customized VM to the browser (with networking included) will be very interesting. I am not sure about the real use cases. For learning development will be useful since you don't need to do a more complex interaction between the browser and your server.

robertelder 13y ago
Unfortunately, full networking capability as it exists in a typical virtual machine (like Virtualbox), will not be possible in pure javascript. Security features of the browser like the same origin policy restrict this from being possible. Even if you were to use some of the exceptions to the same origin policy, you will be limited to sending HTTP requests. There is no way to send a UDP packet from javascript for example. Of course you can create browser extensions which expose these utilities, but then you're taking the easy way out :)

zeckalpha 13y ago

I was hoping it used http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html

g3 13y ago

Just give me one more month, I'm almost there ...

xhrpost 13y ago

Would be neat for a project like this to go open source and accept community submissions. Not sure why the author of jsLinux didn't go that route.

rhelmer 13y ago
Fabrice Bellard is the author of qemu and ffmpeg (among other things), so it is likely he is aware of the benefits of open source and it is a conscious decision (maybe there is interest from someone with relatively deep pockets, or maybe he considers it too hacky?) Don't want to speak for him here though. I do wonder how qemu compiled via emscripten would compare though...
- oscargrouch 13y ago
  Fabrice Bellard is the Chuck Norris of all hackers.. its a waste of time trying to figure out what his superior mind could be thinking :)

oscargrouch 13y ago

anybody just typed: $ ls $ gcc hello.c -o hello

itry 13y ago

Unbelievable. I tried, echo, ls, find, grep, top, ping, whoami, ps, wget, vi, emacs. Everything is there. All in my browser in Javascript? This is fucking cool. I would love a complete vim in javascript that I can use to replace textareas. This would make it possible to simply use the vim.

thousande 13y ago
http://codemirror.net/ http://codemirror.net/ I am not a vim user, but I guess this gets close: http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html http://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
- itry 13y ago
  Interesting! Thanks, will look into it!
- daGrevis 13y ago
  It's the best attempt I've seen so far, but still it's very close from _the real Vim_. See this: http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems http://haldean.org/docstore/?vim-problems .
e12e 13y ago
The real wtf is installing tcc and running hello-world with a shebang...