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Online Open Source OS Puter Becomes More Awesome With Office Offering (itsfoss.com)
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[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 weeks ago

Puter is an operating system that runs inside a web browser.

Does that really qualify as an "operating system"?

[-] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, it's a full OS you just access remotely through your browser.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

You don't "access it through your browser" though, right? Based on how I understood the concept it's just ("just") Javascript running in your browser.

I mean, it's a neat project, but I'm still not convinced it qualifies as an operating system

[-] Hisse@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well an operating system is a system that ... operates, so even if I made one with one of those lego-block scripting languages it would qualify right?

[-] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know, but I would have thought that the key task of the OS is to provide an abstraction that allows apps to run on supported hardware. So it takes care of file access and creation, outputing to the screen, interacting with external devices such as keyboards, webcams etc.

If you already have a browser running, you already have some kind of OS taking care of those low level details.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

So basically your browser (or main OS maybe) is just a hypervisor for this.

[-] p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

So a docker container isn't running an os?

[-] lukalix98@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Depends on the container, but yeah, there might not be an os at all.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

With that logic everything is an operating system

[-] deprecateddino@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Honest question, why does anyone need this? You are presumably already on an OS in order to use this.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

2 main reasons.

  1. Using cloud environments is a pretty cheap and easy way to do data prevention loss, which is what corpos call it when they implement measures to prevent data from getting leaked. If you store all the data in this and gate this behind 2fa, then getting the main device hacked leaks no data provided the "cloud os" is logged out.

  2. Chromebook users. Docs suck, onlyoffice web sucks less.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago

Similar: anuraos, https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/anuraOS

Anuraos is special because it uses a js linux emulator to execute linux apps. Very, very slowly. But it's there and there is even gui support.

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