Have you noticed the update?<p><pre><code> - There is clipboard support (bi-directional)
- It runs on Chromium 13
- It runs on iPad!!
(If it does not take your input, set the focus to the
clipboard edit box)
</code></pre>
http://bellard.org/jslinux/<p>And as a side-note, Tom has ported JSLinux to node.js<p>https://groups.google.com/d/topic/nodejs/B0OUf_Bd15E/discussion
I am a demanding luser. My javascript coding skills are non-existent, and I recognize that I'm asking for the moon on a stick here, and HN isn't the right place to make feature requests anyway.<p>But I'd love to see some extra features ...<p>What I'd like to see?<p>1. Support for loading and mounting additional read-only filesystem images embedded within the web page (presumably serialized and encoded in Base64 or something).<p>2. Support for a translucent FS, to allow writes to a ramdisk to show up on top of the aforementioned read-only FS images.<p>3. Support for writing out an updated copy of the JSLinux HTML file, with a saved copy of the read-only filesystem, including changes merged in from a translucent mount.<p>(In other words: you can edit files on a designated filesystem, then "save" the VM webpage and get a new copy of JSLinux with your edits added to the external filesystem so they're there next time you fire it up..)<p>4. For added fun (but arguably this is an entirely different requirement), I'd like to see a version of JSLinux merged with TiddlyWiki, so you'd have a combined TiddlyWiki (for documentation) with a virtual Linux environment (terminal only) embedded in it, and the ability to save changes.<p>You'd then have a single file containing (a) a hypertext documentation system and (b) a command line Linux environment.<p>I would ... well, "killing" is too strong a word; but I'd probably move into it for good, using vi and MultiMarkDown for book production and small-scale programming projects and TiddlyWiki to keep track of ideas and notes.
A complete list:<p><pre><code> added support for more browsers including Opera 11.11 and __Internet Explorer 9__
reduced VM RAM size from 32 MB to 16 MB.
Source code release of the Linux starter utility.
added a clipboard to exchange data between the VM and the host
added FAQ and News pages
fixed monospace font for some browsers.
fixed binary XHR for Firefox nightly builds
fixed terminal height for the less command
fixed ampersand output in the terminal.</code></pre>
This running on the iPad is the win of the hacking, curiosity and intelligence over the closeness. As without any good reason (IMHO) such a project would never be approved as an app by Apple.
I've tried to compile <a href="http://bellard.org/mersenne.html" rel="nofollow">http://bellard.org/mersenne.html</a>, alas
not enough memory.
Pity, that would be full win.
In Opera 11.11, I seem to get a max of 8 instances going, but not more. Is there a technical limitation, or a deliberate restriction?<p>Memory seems to be OK, the browser is just past a Gig. Although this is a 32-bit OS, I don't see a memory issue.