Boot Linux in your Web Browser

[YosemiteSam]

Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linux in your browser, provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work).

Boot Linux

Not much you can do with it as it is a very striped down version of Linux. Command line only and even that is striped down to a extreme minimum. Cool none the less.

 

[Meat-O-Rama]

Hah, how cool would it be to boot up linux in your browser, run a lightweight webserver like ngnix, then browse that site from the browser that is serving it?

 

[Phoenix]

Nice...root access. Not that much can be done with it.

And rats, no fortune.

 

[Phoenix]

The root directory has a "hello.c" (a hello world 'C' program for non-programmers)

type "tcc -o hello hello.c" and hit enter.

The program "hello" will be compiled in the current working directory.

Type "./hello" to see it print "Hello World"