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Title: Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/03/061...

"During the past two years or so I have been slow-rolling an effort to port
the Linux kernel to WebAssembly," reads a surprising post on the Linux kernel
mailing list. I'm now at the point where the kernel boots and I can run basic
programs from a shell. As you will see if you play around with it for a bit,
it's not very stable and will crash sooner or later, but I think this is a
good first step. Wasm is not necessarily only targeting the web, but that's
how I have been developing this project... This is Linux, booting in your
browser tab, accelerated by Wasm. Phoronix warns that "there are stability
issues and it didn't take me long either to trigger crashes for this Linux
kernel WASM port when running within Google Chrome."

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