Boot Linux In Your Browser

An anonymous reader writes "Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linux in your browser, provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work)."

But...

[Anonymous Coward]

...does it run BSD?

Yo dawg,

[pecosdave]

Yo dawg, we hear you liked Linux and virtual machines so we wrote a virtual machine for the Java Virtual Machine so you can run Linux while you run Linux.

This is the year ........

[rust627]

.......... of Linux on the browser on the desktop.

Re:The burning question.

[gandhi_2]

So you can boot linux in your browser, then launch a browser, and boot linux in that browser....

Yo dawg, if you had a beowulf cluster, you could run kturtle all the way down.

Re:Yo dawg,

[Zontar The Mindless]

Yo dawg, JavaScript and the JVM have less to do with each other than an Orthodox rabbi and a porkchop.

Uh oh...

[Spykk]

Well, I'm off to tie up a few loose ends. It's only a matter of time before he gets X running in there. After that someone will try running firefox. Shortly after that someone will direct that copy of firefox to the link posted in the summary and then the universe will end.

Re:Yo dawg,

[grcumb]

Yo dawg, we hear you liked Linux...

Yeah, but does it run Lin - hang on....

... Oh My God. It's penguins all the way down!

Finally

[sayfawa]

Finally I have the courage to do a
rm -rf /*

Booting Linux

[jez9999]

Didn't work for me. It got to a text thing with a flashing cursor but stopped there. I don't see my Ubuntu desktop or browser icon.