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Boot Linux (or OpenBSD Or Oberon Or FreeDOS) In Your Browser (copy.sh)
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
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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Everybody is busy playing with it...
The first thing I tried to do, is launch Win98. That worked. Then with Internet Explorer, go to Fabrice Bellard's site again and launch Windows 98 inside the VM. But now IE wants to install a modem first :(
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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.
I would love to be able to use the systemd OS with this!
Where does it state that it's from Fabrice Bellard?
The page says it's by Fabian Hemmer
Not enough boots
I beat my record!
Run the Win98 one.
Shut it down.
It BSOD's with 0E exception in VXD VDD.
That's got to be a world-record in terms of "number of instructions executed before a fatal error".
Mozilla.org must be ecstatic!
I wish that his improved picture format, BPG, would get more attention and adoption. It truly is a better replacement for both JPG and PNG.
... to run an OS image 50% of the speed it would run on a 386.
Also how exactly does the internet access bit work when browsers deliberately limit the net access they allow javascript?
I think the developer is on the right track. I'd LOVE to have a workable emulator in the browser that is good. It's not there yet but keep working on it! Good job!
How impressive. You can run free stuff in an emulator that's shittier and slower than those you already have free access to. Yawn.
I'd like to see how they manage that one.
I'm not sure that this is created by Fabrice Bellard, since the README.MD says:
Author
Fabian Hemmer (http://copy.sh/, copy@copy.sh)
How about Global Thermonuclear War?
I can't run TempleOS on it.
Why ever would someone think that it is interesting to find a way to break this. This is obviously a fantastic effort, he needs friends to help.
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Apps!
So, once I booted up Linux in my browser, I could run a web browser, and in that webbrowser I could boot a Linux image, in which I could boot a browser.
Or.... I could boot a linux in a Chrome OS machine, in the linux, I could boot Chrome OS, running Android, which starts a browser, which runs a Linux, which runs a Chrome OS which runs Android which runs a browser which runs a linux boot image, which..... etc.
Can we go for the quadruple and start Windows in a Virtual Machine?... On Linux in Android in Chrome on Linux.
Want to play.
Why javascript? I thought the JVM, or .NET, were the standard, general purpose VMs?
Yes, I am a Javascript hater, at least in the browser. Maybe javascript has a better fit somewhere else.
You don't need a browser.
Oh ... wait.
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This might be just what I need :)
My bet is the site will have to pull down the Windows images since I doubt a license was obtained.
The developer of this thing has thoughtfully provided a "hello.c" file and cc. Oh, yes, and emacs. So go ahead and type:
cc -o hello hello.c
and marvel at the speed.
This environment is just like my first full-time, non-student programming job. There was no IDE, so we pretty much lived in emacs. I haven't used emacs in decades, but my fingers still remember the key bindings for the commands -- as long as I'm not trying to consciously remember them.
It was on a 68020 running at 16 MHz which delivered a grand total of 2 MIPS at 16 MHz. We shared all that computing power among four programmers, which was luxury because the system was supposed to support 16 users (32 max).
It seems almost inconceivable, but the funny thing is it was really just as fun programming back then as it is now with a supercomputer all to myself. Our office was next to a reservoir, and used to start a compile, wait five minutes for the parsing to catch any syntax error (about 75% of the time), then go for a walk on the 1.5 mile trail around the pond. Then I'd stop in at the convenience store to buy a cup of coffee, and head back to the office, and make would just be finishing up the linking. God forbid you got a link error though. That's why we had time to read the entire Unix manual (all eight sections) cover to cover. Many times.
This has fed my conviction that user perceptions of system speed are as strongly affected by consistency as it is by absolute speed. If you're used to a build taking fifteen seconds,a sudden change to 30 seconds seems unbearable.
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Maybe you thought waiting for 10 frameworks to load was bad. In a few years, it will be standard practice for websites to load a full operating system to run themselves.
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You must have a Microsoft-signed UEFI tab running at boot time.
Shit I'm running firefox under linux.
Get your facts right when making the story.
fucking idiot
OP says CLEARLY
so people didn't have to wait for a response.
your attempt to appear intelligent has failed miserably
I inserted a Windows 10 ISO and it got to boot logo and then the recovery screen saying my PC is not 64-bit.
When will Linux become a real user OS say like OSX? Really simple so that any of us idiots can use it without it going kablooey. I've tried loading Ubuntu and Linuxmint, I was able to get Ubuntu to work, however; I couldn't get used to the side bar icons and such. With Linuxmint, I wasn't able to get it to load my Nvidia drivers and upon loading it on my hard drive was only able to achieve a black screen with no interaction.
I'm really ready to make the switch, but I haven't been able to find something that will just load and work without many problems as I'm not tech savvy in the least.
Wow ... this is amazing! I had no idea this was even possible with JavaScript. All I can do with JavaScript is manipulate the DOM and other standard browser functions. This guy is the boss.