[geeks] the virtualization project

Nate Raymond nraymond at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 14:18:06 CDT 2011


On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:

> Even xfce has become hefty.  Desktop software (web browsers, file
> browsers, etc.) has generally done an excellent job of keeping up with the
> expanding resources of the machines on which they're intended to run.
>

Indeed.  Javascript is now at the point where you can run machine emulators
written in nothing but Javascript.  So it is now possible to run Linux
inside an emulator inside a web browser for instance:

http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

- Nate


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