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Boot Linux (or OpenBSD Or Oberon Or FreeDOS) In Your Browser (copy.sh)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the browser-booting dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader DeQueue writes: Back in 2011 Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript that let you boot Linux in your browser. But he didn't stop there.

On his website he now has images that let you boot Oberon, Arch Linux, FreeDOS, OpenBSD, Solar OS and more recent versions of Linux such as 2.6 or 3.18 (the 3.18 image includes internet access). You can also boot to a CD image, or a floppy image, or a hard drive disk image on your local machine. And, if you don't need yet another operating system on your computer, you can even boot to Bootchess and play chess

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  1. Fabrice Bellard is awesome. by queazocotal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lzexe - exe file compression on the PC to fit more on your floppy.
    Qemu - emulate random processors on your PC.
    tccboot - boot linux using a live C compiler.
    Live broadcast of digital video using a VGA card. ...

    1. Re:Fabrice Bellard is awesome. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Plus he founded ffmpeg, which has become the standard tool in the industry since.

    2. Re:Fabrice Bellard is awesome. by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 3, Informative

      He is talking about a computer program called lzexe, not the compression algorithm that it used.

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    3. Re:Fabrice Bellard is awesome. by marcansoft · · Score: 4, Informative

      Too bad this isn't his.

      Fabian Hemmer (http://copy.sh/, copy@copy.sh)

      I have no idea where the submitter got Fabrice Bellard from. This is hosted on a completely different site and authored by a completely different person. Yes, more than one person is capable of implementing an x86 emulator in Javascript. Bellard wrote his and never released the (editable) source; this guy, OTOH, wrote a more compatible emulator of his own (runs more than Linux) and open sourced it.

      This is also old news, I remember seeing it quite some time ago. The site has been up since 2014. Slow news day much?

    4. Re:Fabrice Bellard is awesome. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      >> Lzexe - exe file compression on the PC to fit more on your floppy.
      Correct.

      > LZ compression was invented by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977
      Correct.

      LZ compression mechanism was invented by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv but lzexe, a dos utility using that algorithm to compress EXE files was created by Fabrice Bellard.

  2. Re:Worthless by Khyber · · Score: 3, Informative

    "You'd even struggle to download a modern Firefox that worked on '98."

    I guess someone doesn't know about OldVersion.

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