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The new OS I am creating https://www.exaequos.com is WebAssembly in a POSIX environment. So it is running in every web browser



Oof. My Firefox browser on Ubuntu crashed and all my open VSCodium's went along with it. Happened when loading for a second time. First time worked.


What's the connection between your Firefox and VSCodium? Or did your system run out of virtual memory and start killing things at random?


No connection that I can think of. Might be the memory. 16 GB physical. But I didn't have a lot open (browser + 3 vscodium) and it happened in a heartbeat after clicking in the browser.


It should not use a lot of memory when the login prompt is displayed and even when bash is launched


fun project! always love to see more unix cli in the browser.

It is super nice with the local first approach, and I wonder what it would take to be able to `mount https://example.org` from `test.com`, if both websites are running the "wasm web OS" your linked to.

Cheers!


Programs are compiled with a modified version of emscripten for supporting the system calls of exaequOS. I do not use WASI




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