plasma-umass/browsix
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Browsix is a Unix-like operating system for the browser.
8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2016-05-14 · latest 2022-03-15
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…(216 points, 4 years ago, 51 comments) [3] https://wiki.winehq.org/Vkd3d [4] https://browsix.org/ https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix many popular discussions, 5~6 years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=browsix [5]…
comment by rektide · 2022-03-15 · in Ask HN: Why can’t I run desktop Linux in my browser? -
Does it run on https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix ?
comment by sitkack · 2017-01-01 · in Ask HN: What might be the future of open-source offline-first email apps? -
…cause, but it's a known issue. $ cat README Welcome to Browsix! For more info, please check out: https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix Known issues with this shell: - 'cd' is not implemented. - backspacing past '$' produces "interesting"…
comment by cestith · 2016-12-12 · in Run Unix processes inside your browser -
…we had emscripten working. The shell currently used in the demo is dash, compiled with emscripten: https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix/blob/master/src/dash... Which ends up in the build through our gulpfile:…
comment by nteon · 2016-12-11 · in Run Unix processes inside your browser -
This is apparently the source code for it: https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix/blob/master/src/bin/... It doesn't do much, and certainly does not qualify as being unmodified existing code (which is what this whole system is supposed to…
comment by userbinator · 2016-12-11 · in Run Unix processes inside your browser -
Their github may be more informative. https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix Seems they are using web workers to implement a POSIX environment. And their shell demo do not even support cd(!).
comment by digi_owl · 2016-12-11 · in Run Unix processes inside your browser -
Wow, looks like a big deal. I've been reading through https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix/blob/master/doc/repo... which is a really nice article, but I'd recommend you to tell a bit more on what this level of indirection brings. You…
comment by MrQuincle · 2016-05-14 · in Browsix – A Unix-Like Operating System for the Browser