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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 24 03:13:09 2025
    They used to make jokes about a certain editor being an OS, back in the
    day, but not any more.

    This one is for real: a full Linux VM in your browser.

    <https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114735683692335386>

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wed Jun 25 00:30:03 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 03:13 this Tuesday (GMT):
    They used to make jokes about a certain editor being an OS, back in the
    day, but not any more.

    This one is for real: a full Linux VM in your browser.

    <https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114735683692335386>


    TBH Emacs is probably at that point by now.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 25 05:15:02 2025
    On 2025-06-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    They used to make jokes about a certain editor being an OS,
    back in the day, but not any more.

    This one is for real: a full Linux VM in your browser.

    <https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/114735683692335386>

    Huh. So, like JSLinux?

    http://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86.cfg&mem=192

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