Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC
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BUT CAN IT RUN DOOM?
You missed last week's news.
for people out of the loop, unironically this
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/someone-ported-doom-to-run-inside-a-pdf/1100-6528790/
https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf
Not even last week’s
Considering it just exploits the fact that PDFs can execute JavaScript, it's much more "here is Linux running in JavaScript, containered in a PDF"
Video without the "article": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnN-FA3zRM
Sourcecode: https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf
It's TinyEMU under the hood:
It has a javascript version, JSLinux, that's embedded in the pdf. You can run other OS-es in the browser with that, see link. It has X window support, so it should be possible to run a full GUI operating system in a pdf.
Why is this "win-11" pdf 70GB? Win eleven of what?
Eleven. This OS was released in the time before the war. There never was a Windows Twelve.
I would be more impressed if it was written in Postscript.
If your not running Linux inside a PDF, inside a browser, inside WSL, inside Windows, inside the Linux version of virtualbox, inside FreeBSD jails, on a Arm System inside a x86 emulator than what are you even doing
Wtf...pdfs allow js to execute? Who thought that was a good idea? How about it runs flash too while we're at it?
* Laughs in Firefox where this doesn't work *