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Online Open Source OS Puter Becomes More Awesome With Office Offering (itsfoss.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002 to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 1 day ago (2 children)

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 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

So a docker container isn't running an os?

[–] lukalix98@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

With that logic everything is an operating system