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How to Run Linux In Your Browser

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Linux is one of the mostly used operating system these days. Most of the newer smartphones with Android, webOS are built on top of linux OS variation.

There are plenty of resources where you can learn Linux Online for free. But when it comes to trying out linux, you either have to have a linux OS installed on your computer or you will have to go to some lab computer with linux OS.

Well, now you can run linux within your browser on your windows machines.. and that too is free.

Fabrice Bellard, created this Linux PC Emulator is written in Javascript. The emulated hardware consists in the following devices:

  • 32 bit x86 compatible CPU
  • 8259 Programmble Interrupt Controller
  • 8254 Programmble Interrupt Timer
  • 16450 UART
  • Real Time Clock.

The code is written in pure Javascript using the W3C Typed Arrays which are available in some recent browsers. Only this feature is tested to determine if a given browser can launch the PC emulator. It was tested with Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 on Linux, Window and Mac.

You can run Linux in your Browser by visiting the site bellard.org/jslinux


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