Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser on Friday July 03, @10:50AM

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Michael Lauzon <mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Forgot the link:
>
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1248246/Emulated-PC-Enables-Linux-Desktop-In-Your-Browser
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 17:14, Michael Lauzon<mlauzon-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Don't know if any of you saw this article on Slashdot, but here it is:
> >
> > Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser!
> > The latest JPC, the fast 100% Java x86 PC emulator
> > (http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/aboutus_aboutus.html), is now
> > available with online demos and downloads
> > (http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/). JPC is open source and is the most
> > secure way of running x86 software ever — 2 layers (applet sandbox,
> > JPC sandbox) of independently validated security make it the world's
> > most secure means of isolating x86 software. Visit the website to try
> > out some classic games and play around with Linux all within your web
> > browser. Refresh = reboot!


Let me understand this, someone developed a VM to run inside another VM
that's all designed to run in a browser?

So I went to the JPC site, clicked on the DOOM link nothing happened, I
tried it again and my Firefox 3.5 crashed =) Were you able to get DOOM
going?

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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