Simulating linux terminal in browser

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DevC picture DevC · Oct 24, 2013 · Viewed 29.5k times · Source

I have read about Fabrice Bellard's linux simulation in browser.

How does Linux emulator in Javascript by Fabrice Bellard work?

Today I stumbled upon this site, where they are simulating full linux terminal in browser, I am able to run python, perl etc. I know they are running their site on node.js, but I couldn't figure out how they exactly simulating the terminal.

http://runnable.com/UWRl3KlLuONCAACG/read-files-from-filesystem-in-python

Answer

generalhenry picture generalhenry · Dec 28, 2013

The full linux is http://docker.io, the rest is https://github.com/Runnable/dockworker

We're not simulating the terminal but as Kyle says, replicating the terminal over websockets (with an ajax fallback).

In the browser we're using https://github.com/chjj/term.js which was derived from Fabrice Bellard's emulator. It handles the output, and also the keystroke capture.

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