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Comment by tombl

5 days ago

Fabrice does a great job at building these self-contained pieces of software which often grow to have lives of their own. As a lesser known example, JSLinux's terminal emulator was forked a few times and is now known as xterm.js, which has become the predominant web embeddable terminal emulator.

This all comes full circle, because now I'm building a true successor to JSLinux that's way faster because I've natively compiled the kernel/userspace to wasm, and of course I'm using xterm.js for the terminal emulation.

If you like buggy demos that probably shouldn't be shared yet, you should check out https://linux.tombl.dev, but note that it's currently just a busybox shell and nothing else, so I hope you're good with `echo *` instead of `ls`.

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apitman  5 days ago

I like to say Fabrice creates side projects that others spend their entire careers maintaining.

I knew about QEMU, ffmpeg, his LTE stuff, and QuickJS. I had no idea xterm.js started with him too.

pantalaimon  5 days ago

This produces

        attempted to munmap
        ------------[ cut here ]------------
        WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 36 at kernel/exit.c:812 0x00000000
        CPU: 3 PID: 36 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.1.132 #
        Stack:
            at vmlinux.o.__warn (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[278]:0x17655)
            at vmlinux.o.warn_slowpath_fmt (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[279]:0x1772b)
            at vmlinux.o.do_exit (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[329]:0x1985e)
            at vmlinux.o.task_entry_inner (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[154]:0x12249)
            at vmlinux.o.task_entry (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/vmlinux-NLTKI6YG.wasm:wasm-function[153]:0x12155)
            at self.onmessage (https://linux.tombl.dev/dist/worker-MHWHWELT.js:151:53)
        ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

on any command

  • tombl  5 days ago

    yep, that's to be expected, this is a very wip demo. I'm implementing exec() support now, so currently only shell builtins work.

    • jerf  5 days ago

      "I'm implementing exec() support now"

      Bah. Details, details dismissive hand wave.

      It's just minimalism, right? I hear it's all the rage.

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    • 7bit  4 days ago

      I got that with echo * which you suggested to use :)

      I opened that on my Android Phone and half expected it not to boot at all. But it does. I have no idea about the state of WASM n stuff, but apparently, it's much more eadvanced than I anticipated. Mind blown.

fsiefken  5 days ago

Awesome, I suppose it's more energy efficient then jslinux and can be run on iOS, it might be a good alternative for A-Shell or iSH. I tried it on my a MacBook, but the keyboard input doesn't register.

  • tombl  5 days ago

    Thanks for pointing this out, I've deployed a fix. One of my goals for the project is to create a useful computing environment on top of any arbitrary locked down platform, so I'd love to turn it into an iOS app at some point.