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Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS

Posted by Zonk on from the java-and-unix-sitting-in-a-tree dept.

slummy writes " JS/UIX 'is an UNIX-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.' If only you didn't need an OS to run the web browser on."

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  1. So its true! by kevin_conaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    People DO read the comments on Slashdot

    1. Re:So its true! by autocracy · · Score: 2, Funny

      It was a fluke. None of us are reading your post. You didn't see anything...

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  2. Next up by tqft · · Score: 5, Funny


    From TFA:
    "The only application for now is a simple implementation of vi"

    How long before emacs is ported?

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    1. Re:Next up by Ingolfke · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, that boggles the mind. A web-based OS running an editor-based OS. Holy virtualization Batman!

  3. The sites /.ed already... by sandstorming · · Score: 1, Funny

    It obviously isn't an OS made for web hosting ;)

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  4. dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Dead already.. So more like windows than unix.

  5. Compiler by derphilipp · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is there already a customized gcc or other c-compiler available?

    I wanna run doom on it!

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  6. Obligatory by Deep+Fried+Geekboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our new web-based OS overlor... oh, shit, look at that, it's slashdotted.

    PS You do know that in Soviet Russia, your browser runs your OS, right?

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    1. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      i had the impression IE runs windows.

  7. Screenshot by md81544 · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dead already, but I managed to grab a screenshot:
    [guest@www.masswerk.at:2]$
    :-)
  8. fake DOS... by wirehead78 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember back in the day I wrote a BASIC program that looked exactly like DOS, except it would give weird error messages any time you did anything. My parents sure loved that one.

    1. Re:fake DOS... by rayde · · Score: 5, Funny
      did you call your creation MS-DOS?

      ;-)

    2. Re:fake DOS... by fons · · Score: 3, Funny

      haha, downloaded and tried it.

      It still works on my XP machine!

      I was even worried for an instant when it was supposedly formatting my hard d^i^c^kz^z^z^^z^z^f^^ s^d^f^zêf^zê^f^sd^f s^df ^sd^f ^sd^f^s^df^s s^df ^sd^f^s^df^s^df^^s^sd^f^sd^f^^sd^f ^^sdf^^sd^f

    3. Re:fake DOS... by the+way,+what're+you · · Score: 3, Funny
      I was even worried for an instant when it was supposedly formatting my hard d^i^c^kz^z^z^^z^z^f^^ s^d^f^zêf^zê^f^sd^f s^df ^sd^f ^sd^f^s^df^s s^df ^sd^f^s^df^s^df^^s^sd^f^sd^f^^sd^f ^^sdf^^sd^f
      for those of you keeping score at home, that's (zf-c)(sd+2k-i)(f-x)(1-ê)^3, with len(d^i^c^kz) = 0
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    4. Re:fake DOS... by PakProtector · · Score: 5, Funny

      You wanna hear a really fucked up story?

      Okay. It's 1993. I think. I was somewhere between 8 and 10, so maybe it was '94. Anyway, it's not important.

      I was learning to program at the time, and my uncle who is four years older than me decided that since I was a rather dull child, with wit as sharp as a rubber ball, I should start with QBASIC.

      So I created a grand program: A DOS Shell. It would let you look around, cd, all that fancy stuff. I added colours.

      It was all good.

      So, anyway, I didn't really have a good concept of exactly what an OS was, and I decided I'd written one, so, (this was back in the day you understand, and my parents really weren't too computer savvy) I got on their AOL account and uploaded it to AOL's file center, billing it as a revolutionary new operation system called DHDMP. I think. That or DHCMP. I forget.

      The instructions went something along the lines of, STEP 1: Uninstall DOS.

      You get the picture.

      Well, after around 9 thousand downloads, my parent's AOL account was canceled.

      I'd like to think I did a great deal of good via those 9 thousand downloads.

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    5. Re:fake DOS... by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 3, Funny
      10 in 94? Holy crap. Congratulations on making many of us feel old.

      Maybe that's hex. I'm 1A years old.

  9. crap .. by macaulay805 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this mean that Boot Managers need to be Acid2 Certified as well??!!?

  10. If this becomes too successful... by AtariAmarok · · Score: 2, Funny

    If this becomes to successful, we might get lawsuits in the future to prevent a browser company from shipping a free OS add-in!

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  11. Yes, but . . . by Idou · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can it run Lynx?

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  12. unnecessary... by rayde · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've already got my browser based OS of choice. ;-)

  13. Re:Uses? by AnObfuscator · · Score: 5, Funny

    Usefull? Usefull??!! Dude, it's a Unix OS written in JavaScript that runs on a web browser... the nerdiness is off the charts! Who cares about usefull?!

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  14. Re:Uses? by rjamestaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    If your browser is sufficiently tabbed you can run multiple sessions and create a Beowolf Cluster from them -- BeoFox? Beafari?

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  15. Re:Why is this in the Java topic? by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1, Funny

    They've become accustomed to your Java/Javascript confusion posts and like to get a rise out of you. Just thought you should know.

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  16. Webserver? by generic · · Score: 2, Funny

    So can I write a webserver for it and use my browser to serve webpages and look at them!

    I am tempted to check it out.

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  17. Finally we can put together... by ratta · · Score: 5, Funny

    the ease of use of Unix with the security of Internet Explorer.

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  18. Re:Why is this in the Java topic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    For the nth time, Java and Javascript have nothing at all to do with each other. The syntax is similar (both being based loosely on C), but that's it.
    Why do you call yourself Tim C? For the nth time you were not written in C, you are composed of DNA and a bunch of other chemicals. The syntax is similar (both being based on a series of instructions), but that's it.

    You might as well call yourself Tim x86 Assembly - after all, there's some underlying atomic arrangement to your cell structure.

  19. Uh oh... by spiritraveller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully they had good procedures for ensuring that none of SCO's javascript got in there.

  20. Re:Why is this in the Java topic? by allanc · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a stupid way to pick a username.

    --AC

  21. I Know!!! by eno2001 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's build a kernel around the Gecko engine!!! Boot into Firefox on a framebuffer!!!! The ultimate intarweb terminal! In the process we accomplisht the following:

    1. No more monolithic Linux kernel or proprietary Windows kernel!
    2. No more mach kernel because they're slow dontchaknow
    3. We get rid of X Windows and replace it with Gecko, Javascript, CSS and Mozilla chromes
    4. No more clunky X Windows network transparency because nobody uses it anyways. Now all graphic connections will happen in memory instead of going out over the network to the router and back in to the machine they went out of!
    5. No more ability to run servers (because only crackers and pirates do that)
    6. Google searches become embedded in teh OS like Microsoft plans to do in Pot Noodle Hornlong!
    7. A driving instructor somewhere in Johanessberg gets his job back mate!

    Man am I thirsty! ;P

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  22. Countdown by kryogen1x · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wonder when google is going to hire the guys that made it?

  23. Right? by RasendeRutje · · Score: 2, Funny

    So need need another operating system
    to run aan browser
    to run javascript
    to run this new operating system?
    This must be useful!

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  24. Re:Uses? by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a geek-penis compensation device.

  25. Better than localhost! by mogmismo · · Score: 2, Funny

    This beats the sending the cracker to 127.0.0.1. Now we can just honeypot them inside their browsers! M.

  26. woops! not that secure by Enjoi · · Score: 1, Funny

    var conf_rootpassskey='7B56B841C38BF38C';

  27. Re:No comments and site dead. by Waltre · · Score: 3, Funny

    since the google cache site has been slashdotted, we now need a cache of the google cache page.

  28. Re:Uses? by kevcol · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Putty is great, but if your employer won't allow SSH through the firewall"

    Of course, you are speaking about those employers who lock their employees in a building 24/7 and never let them go home to study or do other things on their own, right?

  29. oh dear god... by Philodoxx · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally, the efficiency of javascript, the user friendliness of unix, and the uncompromising speed of a web based application all in one package.

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  30. Re:Why is this in the Java topic? by Darth_Burrito · · Score: 2, Funny

    DNA is more like machine code. He could still have been written in C and compiled to DNA. Personally, I suspect perl is involved somewhere.