Run Linux on the Web

From: http://coolshell.cn/articles/4722.html

 

A programmer named Fabrice bellard wrote a piece of JavaScript to start Linux in a web browser.

, I put this webpage IFRAME below), currently, you can only use Firefox 4 and chrome 11 to run this Linux. This is not a false imitation of Linux. It is actually a Linux running. This action has aroused the attention of many cool people, including the Javascript creator Brendan eich.
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Subsequently, Fabrice bellard released related technical instructions: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

From this document, we can see:

• This module is completely written in JavaScript.
• The CPU simulator uses qemu.

  (Close to 486 of the original version). Some changes have been made to install Linux.

• The javascript terminal can use termlib

  But he wrote one by himself, because the OS buttons are different from those of the Web browser (here

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• Linux uses the 2.6.20 kernel. Here is the compilation configuration.

  And made some minor changes.

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• The disk uses a RAM disk and is loaded at startup. Its file system is built by buildroot

  And busybox

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• There is a hello. C program in the home directory. You can use tinycc

  Compile (TCC, refer to this article on cool shell

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From these feelings,

1. Running a Linux operating system on the Web is not a problem. So what else can't be done on the web?
2. Linux really has a high performance, and it doesn't feel slow to run in JavaScript.
3. Techno-geek.