Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Re: [BLUG] Javascript Linux

Yeah... wow... amazing... and what a nerd!! :)

David


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:31:57AM -0400, Steven Black wrote:
>That's awesome.
>
>Personally, I think the tech details are a little more interesting:
>http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
>
>"Some of the code is inspired from my x86 dynamic translator present in
>QEMU" -- Now we know how he had the underlying knowledge to pull this off.
>
>Cheers,
>Steven Black
>
>On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> In case you miss this news. A brilliant hacker by the name of Fabrice
>> Bellard has written a simple x86 emulator in Javascript and it runs
>> Linux:
>>
>> http://bellard.org/jslinux/
>>
>> What he is able to pack into this mini Linux distro is amazing and
>> reminds me of the old QNX demo disks that fit on a 1.44MB floppy. It
>> even has a networking stack, emacs, vi, ping, wget, etc. and it boots in
>> about 5 seconds. Which is surprising for javascript to be that fast and
>> responsive.
>>
>> Try rm -fr / then press F5 to reinstall. ;-)
>>
>> Amazingly, the emulator and terminal code is under 100KB!!!
>> You'll need Firefox 4 or Google Chrome 11 to run this.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Krenz
>> Bloomington Linux Users Group
>> http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
>>
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Re: [BLUG] Javascript Linux

That's awesome.

Personally, I think the tech details are a little more interesting: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

"Some of the code is inspired from my x86 dynamic translator present in QEMU" -- Now we know how he had the underlying knowledge to pull this off.

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

 In case you miss this news. A brilliant hacker by the name of Fabrice
Bellard has written a simple x86 emulator in Javascript and it runs
Linux:

 http://bellard.org/jslinux/

 What he is able to pack into this mini Linux distro is amazing and
reminds me of the old QNX demo disks that fit on a 1.44MB floppy.  It
even has a networking stack, emacs, vi, ping, wget, etc. and it boots in
about 5 seconds. Which is surprising for javascript to be that fast and
responsive.

 Try rm -fr / then press F5 to reinstall. ;-)

Amazingly, the emulator and terminal code is under 100KB!!!
You'll need Firefox 4 or Google Chrome 11 to run this.


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[BLUG] Javascript Linux

In case you miss this news. A brilliant hacker by the name of Fabrice
Bellard has written a simple x86 emulator in Javascript and it runs
Linux:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/

What he is able to pack into this mini Linux distro is amazing and
reminds me of the old QNX demo disks that fit on a 1.44MB floppy. It
even has a networking stack, emacs, vi, ping, wget, etc. and it boots in
about 5 seconds. Which is surprising for javascript to be that fast and
responsive.

Try rm -fr / then press F5 to reinstall. ;-)

Amazingly, the emulator and terminal code is under 100KB!!!
You'll need Firefox 4 or Google Chrome 11 to run this.


--
Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/

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