Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS

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."

Comments

So its true!

[kevin_conaway]

People DO read the comments on Slashdot

Next up

[tqft]

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

How long before emacs is ported?

Obligatory

[Deep Fried Geekboy]

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?

Screenshot

[md81544]

Dead already, but I managed to grab a screenshot:

[guest@www.masswerk.at:2]$

:-)

fake DOS...

[wirehead78]

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.

Re:fake DOS...

[rayde]

did you call your creation MS-DOS?

;-)

Re:fake DOS...

[fons]

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

Re:fake DOS...

[the way, what're you]

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

Re:fake DOS...

[PakProtector]

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.

Re:fake DOS...

[Mr. Underbridge]

10 in 94? Holy crap. Congratulations on making many of us feel old.

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

crap ..

[macaulay805]

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

Yes, but . . .

[Idou]

Can it run Lynx?

unnecessary...

[rayde]

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

Re:Uses?

[AnObfuscator]

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?!

Re:Uses?

[rjamestaylor]

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

Finally we can put together...

[ratta]

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

Re:Why is this in the Java topic?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Why is this in the Java topic?

[allanc]

That's a stupid way to pick a username.

--AC

I Know!!!

[eno2001]

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

Re:No comments and site dead.

[Waltre]

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