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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.misc on Tue Jun 24 03:13:09 2025
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    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@candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid to comp.misc on Wed Jun 25 00:30:03 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    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.
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    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
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  • From Ivan Shmakov@ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid to comp.misc on Wed Jun 25 05:15:02 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.misc

    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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