Emulated PC Enables Linux Desktop In Your Browser

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!"

Refresh = reboot!

[IBBoard]

Rrefresh = reboot!

Just what you want - an even easier way to lose data from your VM. Why rely on bugs and crashes when an accidental refresh can reboot your machine?!

Only makes sense if the VM is run on the server

[defireman]

I can't see why would anyone wants to download an applet just to run a VM on his own machine. Now, if the VM runs on the server, that will be another story.

Re:Why would I want to run X86 emulator in my brow

[TheRaven64]

It's a good (for given values of good) way of turning those old bits of legacy code into web apps. How many businesses have you seen that depend on some bit of 16-bit Windows software, probably written in VB or Delphi, which had source code once but no one's seen a copy for a decade? These programs ran okay on a 386 and ran well on a 486. Now they'll run in a web browser on whatever platform you want, including something very cheap like a Loongson 2F or ARM.

Re:We put an OS in your browser in your OS!

[SpzToid]

I was thinking of being able to run a cool linux distro like Backtrack, inside the corporate firewall, using known and approved IP addresses, etc. To SOME people, this is a feature; to others a threat. Regardless, i want to know about the possibilities to do my job better.

Microsoft is making a big deal in Windows 7 about being able to lockdown USB drives in the enterprise. But with this info, they should also considering locking-down web-browsers.

Oh, wait. Nevermind I just said that about Microsoft.

Re:Refresh = reboot!

[IBBoard]

I'd find a page disabling my refresh button the bigger annoyance. The refresh button is outside the scope of a page - it's the UI of an app and shouldn't be told what to do by some randomly downloaded and viewed bit of data!