Re: The Linux Kernel Is Just A Program

From	Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: The Linux Kernel Is Just A Program
Date	2025-12-24 07:39 -0500
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:

> Came across this nifty little article
>
> <https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/the-linux-kernel-is-just-a-program/>
>
> (found on Bluesky
> <https://bsky.app/profile/steveklabnik.com/post/3mapj6kf76k2d>)
> showing that you can run the Linux kernel directly from within a
> VM in qemu, without installing a distro or anything. It will
> boot, and then die because it wants to mount a root filesystem
> and start an init process; so then it’s easy enough to set that
> up with a few more commands, try booting it again, and there you
> go -- you have a running VM.

    <https://retrage.github.io/lkl-js/>

    LKL.js is Linux Kernel Library ported to JavaScript using
    Emscripten. Unlike JSLinux, LKL.js includes a Linux kernel
    fully written in JavaScript and runs without emulators. For
    more details, read my blog post

    LKL.js just boots Linux kernel and still completely useless.
    It shows how Emscripten is powerful and how Linux kernel is
    flexible.

IIRC, the Qemu developer (Fabrice Bellard) wrote a Linux kernel
that ran on a web page.

    <https://bellard.org/jslinux/>

-- 
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or
whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
		-- Chuang-tzu

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