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Linux In JavaScript, With Persistent Storage

Posted by timothy on from the and-all-I-want-is-a-working-wireless-card dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember Fabrice bellard's [Linux-booting PC emulator in JavaScript] ? This modified version [Note: click on "emulator.html" in that directory to see it in action] allows the same emulator to boot the most recent linux kernel, 3.0.4, as well as providing the user with persistent storage. It is achieved by building a virtual block device, which stores data in HTML5 local storage. The block device can be partitioned and formatted as ext2, so it can be easily used."

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  1. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So when the web browser becomes the OS we will still be able to issue cryptic command-line incantations to do things that everyone else has to point-and-click to do!

  2. Year of by JustOK · · Score: 4, Funny

    All hail the year of linux in the browser!

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