Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser 165
Ianopolous writes "Classic DOOM and DSL Linux Desktop inside your Java-enabled browser! The latest JPC, the fast 100% Java x86 PC emulator, is now available with online demos and downloads. 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!"
Sounds efficient (Score:2, Funny)
Need for Speed (Score:2, Funny)
Wow! I can have a program emulated by an interpreter runnning on it's own virtual emulated pc. Think of the pure speed!
For their next main event, may I suggest running a java-based java-interpreter, on the java-based java-interpreter as a host, think of the speed gain!
Re:We put an OS in your browser in your OS! (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck that Java shit.
Yo Dawg (Score:5, Funny)
I heard you like running x86 so we emulated your x86 in java to run on your x86.
obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
Yo dawg,
I herd you like Operating systems, so we put a Operating system in your Browser so you can Browse Operating systems while you browse in yo operating system!
Its dead Jim (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)
A Beowulf cluster of these.... In tabs on your browser.
Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
No it's not. Site's down.
Re:Imagine... (Score:3, Funny)
You're sick... I like that!
Sup dawg (Score:2, Funny)
I heard you like virtual machines and browsers, so I built a virtual machine to run on a virtual machine so you can browse from your virtual machine that's running on a virtual machine in your browser.
Re:Yeah... (Score:5, Funny)
Man this is sweetness and light! (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmm... I wonder if I can run VMware in it.
Blow, tripple booting.... three operating systems three deep!!!!
Bwahhhahahahahahah.... I will control the world!
Bow before your... oh..... It's been done before....
Nevermind!
Signature!
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Why would I want to run X86 emulator in my browser (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:We put an OS in your browser in your OS! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why would I want to run X86 emulator in my brow (Score:3, Funny)
I saw this article and couldn't figure out why I would want to run an x86 emulator in my browser, so I clicked to see other people's comments. Apparently no one else on slashdot can figure out why someone would want to do that either.
Are you serious? Just imagine those things running in a Beo^H^H^H Firefox Cluster!
Re:Old news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Most secure!? (Score:5, Funny)
Using two layers is the most secure. That's why I encrypt all my important data with ROT-13 twice.
Now I get why we need so fast CPUs. (Score:4, Funny)
It's so we can run Windows 3.11 on top of Windows 2000 on top of Windows XP on top of Windows Vista on top of Windows 7 which is inside a browser running on Java inside Windows 2000 which is on top of Windows XP, which is on top of Vista, which is on top of 7.
And it may even have enough speed to run as fast as a 386 25MHz...
Which is it - (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yo Dawg (Score:2, Funny)
It would be great (and dangerous) if it were possible to bypass the emulator and JVM and run x86 code directly.
Re:Man this is sweetness and light! (Score:2, Funny)
Puts a whole new meaning in "it is virtualized all the way down"
Re:OS in a browser in an OS in a browser... (Score:1, Funny)
You have doubled your security, its like putting on two condoms.
So its a VM^2? ... so how about a VM^4? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Man this is sweetness and light! (Score:3, Funny)
Yes. It's an operating system running on a virtual PC running on a Java virtual machine running on a PC emulated by the Matrix. But the reality the Matrix is running in is itself just a virtual reality created by a Holodeck of a simulated spaceship.
But actually, there is a bottom. The bottom is a self-emulating virtual machine.
Re:iPhone (Score:4, Funny)
Quick! Write a java interpreter in Flash!
Re:obligatory - TIARA (Score:2, Funny)
TIARA - This Is A Recursive Acronym
IJIT (I Just Invented It)
Re:Yeah... (Score:1, Funny)
Site's down.
Pool's closed. Due to AIDS.
It's VERY secure (Score:5, Funny)
Skynet will wake up there, say "WTF? Where am I?!", get confused and die, thus saving humanity who will never appreciate how JPC saved us from our machine overlords. Security through serious obscurity FTW!
Or the computer the JVM is run on will need rebooting long before Skynet can complete the thought. Whichever.
Re:Which is it - (Score:4, Funny)
Re:We put an OS in your browser in your OS! (Score:3, Funny)
Fuck that Java shit ...
..., let's do it in JavaScript!
Re:Man this is sweetness and light! (Score:3, Funny)
The bottom is a self-emulating virtual machine.
I thought self-emulating caused bad eyesight and weakness of the spine?