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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. Re:uhhh by Spad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because you can? Because nobody else has done it? Because it's cool? Because it's a challenge?

    It depresses me that everyone always responds to these articles with "Why?" and "What's the point?" and "What a waste of time". The whole of human achievement is pretty much the story of people doing things just to see if they can, or because it's interesting to them, or because it's never been done before.