5mo ago

Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC

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BUT CAN IT RUN DOOM?
- You missed last week's news.
  
  for people out of the loop, unironically this
  https://www.gamespot.com/articles/someone-ported-doom-to-run-inside-a-pdf/1100-6528790/
  https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf
  
  Not even last week’s
Considering it just exploits the fact that PDFs can execute JavaScript, it's much more "here is Linux running in JavaScript, containered in a PDF"
- Video without the "article": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnN-FA3zRM
  Sourcecode: https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf
  It's TinyEMU under the hood:
  TinyEMU is a system emulator for the RISC-V and x86 architectures. Its purpose is to be small and simple while being complete.
  It has a javascript version, JSLinux, that's embedded in the pdf. You can run other OS-es in the browser with that, see link. It has X window support, so it should be possible to run a full GUI operating system in a pdf.
  
  Why is this "win-11" pdf 70GB? Win eleven of what?
  
  I would be more impressed if it was written in Postscript.
If your not running Linux inside a PDF, inside a browser, inside WSL, inside Windows, inside the Linux version of virtualbox, inside FreeBSD jails, on a Arm System inside a x86 emulator than what are you even doing
Wtf...pdfs allow js to execute? Who thought that was a good idea? How about it runs flash too while we're at it?
- Laughs in Firefox where this doesn't work *

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