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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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[–] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 4 points 21 hours 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 10 hours ago (1 children)

So a docker container isn't running an os?

[–] lukalix98@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

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