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Boot Linux In Your Browser

Posted by Soulskill on from the year-of-linux-in-the-browser dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linux in your browser, provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work)."

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  1. But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...does it run BSD?

  2. Yo dawg, by pecosdave · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yo dawg, we hear you liked Linux and virtual machines so we wrote a virtual machine for the Java Virtual Machine so you can run Linux while you run Linux.

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    1. Re:Yo dawg, by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yo dawg, JavaScript and the JVM have less to do with each other than an Orthodox rabbi and a porkchop.

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    2. Re:Yo dawg, by grcumb · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yo dawg, we hear you liked Linux...

      Yeah, but does it run Lin - hang on....

      ... Oh My God. It's penguins all the way down!

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  3. This is the year ........ by rust627 · · Score: 5, Funny

    .......... of Linux on the browser on the desktop.

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    da da da dum indeed.
  4. Re:The burning question. by gandhi_2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you can boot linux in your browser, then launch a browser, and boot linux in that browser....

    Yo dawg, if you had a beowulf cluster, you could run kturtle all the way down.

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  5. Uh oh... by Spykk · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, I'm off to tie up a few loose ends. It's only a matter of time before he gets X running in there. After that someone will try running firefox. Shortly after that someone will direct that copy of firefox to the link posted in the summary and then the universe will end.

  6. Finally by sayfawa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Finally I have the courage to do a
    rm -rf /*

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  7. Booting Linux by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't work for me. It got to a text thing with a flashing cursor but stopped there. I don't see my Ubuntu desktop or browser icon.

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