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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)."

5 of 393 comments (clear)

  1. Fun guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Fabrice also wrote his own version of emacs in his own realtime C compiler, and he also at one time held the record for calculating pi.

  2. 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.
  3. 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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    Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
  4. Mod Fabrice Bellard up! by simoncpu+was+here · · Score: 5, Insightful

    +1 Brilliant

  5. Vital Stats by modus_operandi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let's see what this baby has under the hood:

    ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
    processor : 0
    vendor_id : GenuineIntel
    cpu family : 5
    model : 4
    model name : Pentium MMX
    stepping : 3
    cache size : 0 KB
    fdiv_bug : no
    hlt_bug : no
    f00f_bug : yes
    coma_bug : no
    fpu : no
    fpu_exception : no
    cpuid level : 1
    wp : yes
    flags :
    bogomips : 20.21
    clflush size : 32

    ~ # cat /proc/meminfo
    MemTotal: 30448 kB
    MemFree: 26960 kB
    Buffers: 2048 kB
    Cached: 456 kB
    SwapCached: 0 kB
    Active: 2636 kB
    Inactive: 64 kB
    SwapTotal: 0 kB
    SwapFree: 0 kB
    Dirty: 8 kB
    Writeback: 0 kB
    AnonPages: 212 kB
    Mapped: 324 kB
    Slab: 700 kB
    SReclaimable: 96 kB
    SUnreclaim: 604 kB
    PageTables: 36 kB
    NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
    Bounce: 0 kB
    CommitLimit: 15224 kB
    Committed_AS: 456 kB
    VmallocTotal: 1007592 kB
    VmallocUsed: 0 kB
    VmallocChunk: 1007592 kB
    HugePages_Total: 0
    HugePages_Free: 0
    HugePages_Rsvd: 0
    Hugepagesize: 4096 kB

    ~ # top
    Mem: 3472K used, 26976K free, 0K shrd, 2048K buff, 472K cached
    CPU: 0.5% usr 0.3% sys 0.0% nic 87.2% idle 0.0% io 6.2% irq 5.5% sirq
    Load average: 0.08 0.04 0.01 1/12 78
    PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM CPU %CPU COMMAND
    78 75 root R 1136 3.7 0 12.7 top
    75 1 root S 1156 3.8 0 0.0 sh
    1 0 root S 1136 3.7 0 0.0 /bin/sh /sbin/init
    3 1 root SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [events/0]
    4 1 root SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [khelper]
    2 1 root SWN 0 0.0 0 0.0 [ksoftirqd/0]
    5 1 root SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kthread]
    16 5 root SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kblockd/0]
    34 5 root SW< 0 0.0 0 0.0 [kswapd0]
    35 5 root SW< 0 0.0

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    Well's all that ends.