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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. Its all nice and stuff by dev658 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Except that the author of original emulator is an asshole.
    This is because he didn't release the source of it (its obscured javascript) and he nether licensed it under a free licence.

    And author of this mod, who say that he obtained a permission to _host_ these obscured files just supports that bad guy.
    Both should be ashamed of this. They didn't do a rocket science, nobody would want to buy this stuff.