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Browser Shell: A Linux VM in the browser serving a website

77 pointsby 4y agohumphd.github.io
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4y agoHN ↗

This is really cool and even more impressive given the blog post is from 2019.

Is there any instructions on how to “host” this ourselves? Not seeing anything related to that in the post nor the GH page: https://github.com/humphd/browser-shell

4y agoHN ↗

Looks like a pretty straightforward node/web app project, with a parcel build step. Probably just a `yarn` and `yarn build` will get you most of the way there! See what it spits out and serve that.

4y agoHN ↗

This is quite interesting actually. I can see potential use-cases for this.

4y agoHN ↗

Wow! You can create an interactive online course teaching Linux command line basics.