This project provides a simple Node.js compatibility layer for the excellent jslinux project, an x86 emulator for running Linux, written in JavaScript. jslinux was created by Fabrice Bellard, and is not open source, so you'll have to obtain a copy from the website.

• Install via npm install jslinux, or download the dependencies yourself.
• Run the jslinux executable, or load the "jslinux" module and call the boot() function.
• If the terminal is in raw mode, hit Ctrl-C four times in a row to exit.

$ node
> require("jslinux").boot()
[Node.js switching to raw mode. Hit Ctrl-C four times in a row to exit.]
{ base: '/usr/local/lib/node/.npm/jslinux/0.0.1/package/external/',
  terminal: 
   { handler: [Function: Jf],
       ...
  boot: [Function] }
> Starting Linux
Linux version 2.6.20 (bellard@voyager) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)) #1 Wed May 18 23:22:20 CEST 2011
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
    ...
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed
Welcome to JS/Linux
~ # echo hello node
hello node
~ # 

• typed-array

• More hooks (boot args, filesystem, etc?)

Note: jslinux itself is (C) 2011 Fabrice Bellard, and is not part of this project nor is it included with the project. The code contained in this repository only is subject to the following license:

Copyright (C) 2011 by Thomas Robinson (http://tlrobinson.net/)

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