[darkrose0510]

I've had heaps of people asking me how it works, so to help explain things a little I've put up a blog post showing the boot process of the development version, have a look as webLinux Blog - It's gonna be a while... if you're interested.

Suffice to say that it isn't just a web page that looks like Linux, it actually is as close as I can get to a real Linux system written in javascript. Shared objects, multithreading, process and memory management, and still a long way to go...

[Roxoff]

Ahhhhggghhh, very frustrating...

I selected 'run level 5', it dropped into a login prompt, I pressed the wrong button, then pressed 'backspace' to delete the bad character... and Internet Ex-bleedin-plorer takes me back to the previous page! I think I need to use Firefox...

Looks pretty cool though. Maybe you could do something about that backspace thing, there are likely to be people looking at your page from IE.

[elija]

Your blog link gives me a 404 not found error...

[Bemk]

Do you guys have some good tutorials or something to make me able to help this project, I think it's so cool!!! I look at the source and it all kind of makes a little sense, I'm a beginning C++ developer, but I'd like to learn a web developing language too. I'm learning XHTML too. I know that it's a good start, but not of much use as I've seen in this project.

[Geeth]

Dude, that is awesome

I have to admit I thought that it would be slugish and slow, but damn it's like a dream.

The only issue i have is backspace.

[darkrose0510]

Originally Posted by Roxoff

Ahhhhggghhh, very frustrating...

I selected 'run level 5', it dropped into a login prompt, I pressed the wrong button, then pressed 'backspace' to delete the bad character... and Internet Ex-bleedin-plorer takes me back to the previous page! I think I need to use Firefox...

Looks pretty cool though. Maybe you could do something about that backspace thing, there are likely to be people looking at your page from IE.

yeah there's no x server yet... it's a work in progress, so runlevels 3 and 5 are currently exactly the same. And the next release has a pretty much rewritten kernel, including a nice new keyboard module that solves the backspace problem.

Originally Posted by elija

Your blog link gives me a 404 not found error...

try webLinux Blog - It's gonna be a while...
or webLinux Blog - It's gonna be a while...

Originally Posted by Bemk

Do you guys have some good tutorials or something to make me able to help this project, I think it's so cool!!! I look at the source and it all kind of makes a little sense, I'm a beginning C++ developer, but I'd like to learn a web developing language too. I'm learning XHTML too. I know that it's a good start, but not of much use as I've seen in this project.

WebLinux almost has a language of it's own, especially the the next release where programs almost look like they're written in C...

#include <libc>

function main()
{
	printf("hello world!\n");

	return 0;
}

That's hello world for WebLinux, but if you know a bit of javascript and a bit of C you should be able to figure it out. I really need better documentation for it though.

Help would be very much appreciated, as I'm basically on my own at present.

Originally Posted by Geeth

Dude, that is awesome

I have to admit I thought that it would be slugish and slow, but damn it's like a dream.

The only issue i have is backspace.

woohoo I got a banana! I'm working on speeding it up too (filesystem precaching when processes are idle to reduce the need to load from the server on call.

[questio verum]

Linux in a webpage. A capital idea! I can't help you with coding, but I'm a fair proofreader. Third paragraph, last line: associated rather than assaciated.

In a way, this site reminds me of "Learning UNIX", a book/floppy package I had years ago. It allowed the user to simulate a UNIX CLI environment from DOS. Your project has the potential to be much better though. I'll definitely be checking in from time to time.

[arinlares]

it's great, if you are familiar with the Linux command line, which i, unfortunately, am not. i've been wondering when somebody would do something like this, though.

[Bemk]

You know what, you deserve more Bananas


And I'll digg into your source code. Could you tell us how we could help you writing this thing too???

[darkrose0510]

Ok, if you want to see the current development code go to:
http://weblinux.ltmnet.com/devel/

Have a read through kernel-0.4.js to help get some idea of how it all works.
Look at init, login, chvt, fsck to see how programs are written.
libc (printf, printr, scanf) and libfs (read,write, get permissions, get dir list, etc) are worth looking at too.
There's a todo.txt listing things that need doing... it grows fairly rapidly at times.

The only way to have your code included at present is to email it to me, but if enough people get involved I'll setup something better.