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Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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"

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Video without the "article": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnN-FA3zRM

Sourcecode: https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf

It's TinyEMU under the hood:

TinyEMU is a system emulator for the RISC-V and x86 architectures. Its purpose is to be small and simple while being complete.

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.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I would be more impressed if it was written in Postscript.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is this "win-11" pdf 70GB? Win eleven of what?

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

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.