web-based operating system OS.js: New Kind of Operating System for the Web

[SURbit]

What Makes OS.js Special?

 

Unlike other operating systems, OS.js can operate on any computer without installing anything.

The OS is made entirely out of javascript. It can be used on any platform that has a modern web browser.

 

Have you ever wanted to have a web-based operating system – one that you can access anywhere on any

computer right from your web browser?

If so, OS.js might be just the thing. It’s a javascript-based operating system designed for the cloud.

 

Despite the fact that this operating system is web-based and is designed to be used inside web browsers,

it is very complex.

It’s no pushover by any means. OS.js has a full window manager and desktop and comes with a full set of

applications (file manager, music and video player, etc.), very similar to traditional open source operating systems.

Best of all, like any traditional open source operating system, all of OS.js is completely customizable.

Just about every aspect of it can be tweaked.

 

Here are some compelling things that OS.js has to offer:

• Virtual file system powered by Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive
• Google API Javascript support
• Windows API Javascript support
• Can run independent of a server if built that way
• Runs native GTK+ 3.x applications via Broadway
• Can be run as a regular x11 desktop on Linux
• Drag-and-drop
• Support for custom code and custom modules
• Support for Linux, BSD, OSX and Windows

 

What makes OS.js special is the fact that it is so prolific. Imagine setting up OS.js on a VPS (or your home server).

You’re out and about, and something comes up.

You need to do some quick things, and your smartphone apps just won’t cut it.

 

You could easily open your smartphone browser and launch a full-fledged application to get work done.

It’s an incredible idea, to say the least. Best of all, there are many, many applications to choose from.

The regular build of OS.js is quite sparse, but they have some extra repositories filled with awesome programs

to choose from.

 

Installation

OS.js is a javascript application at its core. That being said, it isn’t tied down to one specific type of server platform.

Instead, the web-based operating system can run on many, many different types. Supported platforms include:

PHP, Nginx, Apache, NodeJS, Docker, Vagrant and even locally via X11.

 

Since there are so many ways to install this operating system, the process won’t be covered here. Instead,

head over ( https://github.com/andersevenrud/OS.js-v2/blob/master/INSTALL.md ) and read the official documentation,

and learn how you can install OS.js for your preferred platform of choice.

Each platform has its own detailed section to help get OS.js running perfectly.

 

Conclusion

OS.js is a revolutionary idea that turns an operating system into a portable tool rather than something stuck on one machine.

It’s in its early days, making it hard to think of where this tool could fit in for the average user.

Still, with the proliferation of web-based applications and services, it’s only a matter of time for something like this to catch on.

 

There’s even a live demo which you can test out - http://osjsv2.0o.no/

 

 

 

 

SOURCE:

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[ASIO]

awesome

[byntf]

It's a slick idea, but I wonder if it won't be really easy to write malware for a JavaScript  operating system and load it with a "drive-by" install ?

[steven36]

You can run almost any version of Linux without installing it with a live dvd or  flash drive . I don't know about and o/s made from a .js file . Its not really and standalone O/S  if it require  another O/S . You take Linux O/S for example  you're HHD  could go out and you can use you're pc trough a dvd     But this ojs seems to be  just a virtual  O/S  when you can just use a VM  and put any o/s you want up on it. So I don't know if this will ever catch on or not ?

[straycat19]

Worst idea in the world is to base anything on java script.  Every month they patch 50-75-85 vulnerabilities.  It is so easy to hack that it is disabled in most browsers and web based software using java script is being moved to other alternatives, such as html5.  My work doesn't enable it and systems that require it are put on a special network that doesn't allow routing outside the vlan.  

[steven36]

3 hours ago, straycat19 said:

Worst idea in the world is to base anything on java script.  Every month they patch 50-75-85 vulnerabilities.  It is so easy to hack that it is disabled in most browsers and web based software using java script is being moved to other alternatives, such as html5.  My work doesn't enable it and systems that require it are put on a special network that doesn't allow routing outside the vlan.  

Replacing html5  in place JS  or flash is just like a shrink who gives pills to a crazy person  because they don't know what else to do for them . it just replaces one set of problems  for another set of problems but does nothing about the real problem.

HTML5 Security Concerns

http://labs.securitycompass.com/web-applications/1024/

[Holmes]

HTMLFive is better then flash and in january flash installer is going to be removed and we are going to have to use HTMLFive and I look forward to it.  I know people with schizophrenia that take pills and the pills work for them and there living there lives the way they want calling them a crazy person is being judgemental thou shall not judge.  Ill take HTMLFive over the bug and exploit ridden flash and javvascript anyday.  I wouldnt rely on this operating system as a actual operating system if I would have created such a operating system I would have created it to see what its like to have a operating system made with pure javascript not to be used for serious use.

[steven36]

3 hours ago, Holmes said:

HTMLFive is better then flash and in january flash installer is going to be removed and we are going to have to use HTMLFive and I look forward to it.  I know people with schizophrenia that take pills and the pills work for them and there living there lives the way they want calling them a crazy person is being judgemental thou shall not judge.  Ill take HTMLFive over the bug and exploit ridden flash and javvascript anyday.  I wouldnt rely on this operating system as a actual operating system if I would have created such a operating system I would have created it to see what its like to have a operating system made with pure javascript not to be used for serious use.

I don't have to look forward to it you do i don't use flash are html5  to watch videos I have SMtube browser witch lets me open YouTube videos trough any my stand alone players .Also I have mpv-youtube-dl-binding  witch lets me watch videos from many sites with out need for flash or html5 .

 

How is comparing  a documentary  I seen on  Shrinks  on PBS  to Known Exploits  in html5 being judgmental anyways ?

 

If they do away with flash and javascript  then hackers  will just poor all there effort into exploiting html5 it well be ate up  with malware as well.

 

Flash  you can turn it off when not using it html5 is baked in  witch makes it even more risky. Anyone  who gets infected from flash its there own ignorance but html5 is baked in  there's no way to turn it off  you can only block  with the same tools you use too block java script .

 

 

[Holmes]

Adding more pointless applications to avoid something as easy as flipping on a lightswitch a menial task it is for me anyway.  I said calling someone a crazy person is judgemental nothing else.  Im not downloading a different browser to watch youtube videos youtube has never been a problem with infections I have no problems watching youtube and if I want to download a youtube video I use internet download manager why install a new browser take up disk space to do something you can easily do with htmlfive and htmlfive is going to be alot better then flash and java I have a good feeling.  I havve never shutdown flash have no need to I use a hosts file and no script and adnlock plus and malwarebytes anti-exploit premium Im content.  Keep your java and flash updated and use what I got and your fine I have all the browser extensions I want to use.

[steven36]

14 minutes ago, Holmes said:

Adding more pointless applications to avoid something as easy as flipping on a lightswitch a menial task it is for me anyway.  I said calling someone a crazy person is judgemental nothing else.  Im not downloading a different browser to watch youtube videos youtube has never been a problem with infections I have no problems watching youtube and if I want to download a youtube video I use internet download manager why install a new browser take up disk space to do something you can easily do with htmlfive and htmlfive is going to be alot better then flash and java I have a good feeling.  I havve never shutdown flash have no need to I use a hosts file and no script and adnlock plus and malwarebytes anti-exploit premium Im content.  Keep your java and flash updated and use what I got and your fine I have all the browser extensions I want to use.

To me its not pointless I hate watching videos in my browser built in players suck . You think Html5 is going to save the internet  its not .  You know why malware  was invented  it was because Antivirus vendors  almost  wiped  out real virus  so hackers  simply switch  to making malware instead . Same will happen  if there's no   flash then  they will exploit Html5  a whole lot more than they already do.

[Holmes]

I never said HTMLFive is going to save the internet I said its going to be better then flash and javascript.  Malware was created because black hat hackers have the personality of the dark tetrad (white hat hackers create malware for themselves to test against security products not to anger users) that and malware is created out of curiosity and the hackers want to see if they can do it I know my friend is a black hat malware writer.  He told me why he has written malware.  Various reasons include to make money and to steal account information and to cause trouble and problems for users that ties into the dark tetrad.  The history of flash and java has always been wary and questionable there has never been a true secure version of them its like they were destined to fail.  HTMLFive is a different story we dont know how well its going to go yet.

[steven36]

19 minutes ago, Holmes said:

I never said HTMLFive is going to save the internet I said its going to be better then flash and javascript.  Malware was invented because black hat hackers have the personality of the dark tetrad that and malware is created out of curiosity and the hackers want to see if they can do it I know my friend is a black hat malware writer.  He told me why he has written malware.  Various reasons include to make money and to steal account information and to cause trouble and problems for users that ties into the dark tetrad.  The history of flash and java has always been wary and questionable there has never been a true secure version of them its like they were destined to fail.  HTMLFive is a different story we dont know how well its going to go yet.

html5 is just going end up setting the internet back . YouTube updates introduced a bug html5 in Firefox 43  that's they had to update to put a fake user agent for Firefox 42  in Firefox 43  . Its just like every else Google imposes  it ends up breaking a lot of shit:   Many sites that's written  in flash years ago may simply stop working if they don't have the money to update to html5.

 

And no Malware  was not 1st written  for profit  it was written for hobby it was more of a prank  then  they figured out they could make money off people  on it latter on .

Malware’s Journey from Hobby to Profit-Driven Attacks

https://www.tenable.com/blog/malware-s-journey-from-hobby-to-profit-driven-attacks

 

you must not be old enough to remember back then.

 

 

[Holmes]

We need something new flash and java has been around since nineteen ninety five flash ninetysix and java ninetyfive.  Its been twenty years and we are on java eight and flash twenty name one version that had a successful run I cant.  One bug compared to how many bugs from java and flash I couldnt imagine thinking about that number.  Sites that use flash are going to eventually break there most likely going to switch to HTMLFive before that happens.  There are ALOT of sites I had in my favorites from five to ten years ago that are broken dont work cant access them now and java and flash is around those that dont have the money are going to ask for donations if they must stay running and if they have the user base there going to get those donations like this site LOTS of users love this site and if it was going to shut down I would donate.  How do you know HTMLFive is going to set the internet back are you a clairvoyant I dont think you are.  I never said it was created only for profit I mentioned various reasons.  I remember elk cloner that virus was created for apple II  the first pc IBM compatible virus was Brain sector virus I was born in nineteen eighty two I remember.

[steven36]

28 minutes ago, Holmes said:

We need something new flash and java has been around since nineteen ninety five flash ninetysix and java ninetyfive.  Its been twenty years and we are on java eight and flash twenty name one version that had a successful run I cant.  One bug compared to how many bugs from java and flash I couldnt imagine thinking about that number.  Sites that use flash are going to eventually break there most likely going to switch to HTMLFive before that happens.  There are ALOT of sites I had in my favorites from five to ten years ago that are broken dont work cant access them now and java and flash is around those that dont have the money are going to ask for donations if they must stay running and if they have the user base there going to get those donations like this site LOTS of users love this site and if it was going to shut down I would donate.  How do you know HTMLFive is going to set the internet back are you a clairvoyant I dont think you are.  I never said it was created only for profit I mentioned various reasons.  I remember elk cloner that virus was created for apple II  the first pc IBM compatible virus was Brain sector virus I was born in nineteen eighty two I remember.

We knew  all the way back in 2010 HTLM5 was going to most likely  going to replace flash one day or something  would seems shumway project from Mozilla seems prety much dead in the water now.

 

HTLM5 is not new it was 1st born in 2004 and  we always knew its not going to save the internet . It would be different if you was talking  a bout something  that was new tech  but its not its over a decade old. 

[Holmes]

I have never said its going to save the internet I said its going to be better then java and flash listen.  I have heard about HTMLFive for a long time myself and I have been standing by for it to replace flash and java its not going to save anything its going to be better anything is better then flash and java fifty percent of something is better then one hundred percent of nothing.  I agree with you its not new and I agree its not going to save the internet hell HTMLSix is not going to save the internet nothing can save the internet (if we change our way of thinking and develop something based on that that can save the internet).  What was that article where mudge and a bunch of hackers talked to congress mentioning all it takes from them is thirty minutes of keystrokes and they can shut the internet shutdown same with my friend the malware writer these are very dangerous hackers and could take the internet down with java flash or with HTMLFive:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/

 

Thats not the article I first read its similiar.  Its like what albert einstein said we cant solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used to created them with.

[steven36]

12 minutes ago, Holmes said:

I have never said its going to save the internet I said its going to be better then java and flash listen.  I have heard about HTMLFive for a long time myself and I have been standing by for it to replace flash and java its not going to save anything its going to be better anything is better then flash and java fifty percent of something is better then one hundred percent of nothing.  I agree with you its not new and I agree its not going to save the internet hell HTMLSix is not going to save the internet Nothing can save the internet.  What was that article where mudge and a bunch of hackers talked to congress mentioning all it takes from them is thirty minutes of keystrokes and they can shut the internet shutdown same with my friend the malware writer these are very dangerous hackers and could take the internet down with java flash or with HTMLFive:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/

 

  Thats not the article I first read its similiar.  Its like what albert einstein said we cant solve our problems with the same level of thinking we used to created them with.

Are you talking about JavaScript  or are you talking java?  there not the same  thing . Java  is not needed in browsers  very often anymore for normal use  . And you don't know what talking about it cant replace java script. HTML5 is simply a specification  of web technologies that are (or should be) available in browsers. JavaScript is used to access and control a lot of those technologies. So HTML5 cannot replace JavaScript or vice versa. HTML5 and JavaScript work hand and  hand  together  you to have enable certain JavaScript to use  it  this what makes it so risky.

[Holmes]

Im talking about javascript java is used in over three billion devices.  HTMLfive is scripting and could take over javascript (a different scripting language) if it doesnt something needs to its as insecure as flash is.  I was saying java to shorten javascript its easier to say java and faster then saying javascript everytime.  Overall I hate using javascript and flash they need to be replaced we need a alternative that works and works well and is secure.  Java is made by oracle and there always in the news and if we wanted to replace java it wouldnt be very easy knowing that its used in three billion devices.  Like stray said javascript has had and has tons of vulnerabilities.  With java in use and javascript and flash so many vulnerable technologies no wonder the internet is not safe.

[steven36]

8 minutes ago, Holmes said:

Im talking about javascript java is used in over three billion devices.  HTMLfive is scripting and could take over javascript (a different scripting language) if it doesnt something needs to its as insecure as flash is.  I was saying java to shorten javascript its easier to say java and faster then saying javascript everytime.

Even when you go to YouTube there are certain  JavaScript you have to enable to use it ..it will never replace JavaScript it wont work without it.

[Holmes]

 

Quote

 

HTML5 is simply a specification[1] of web technologies that are (or should be) available in browsers. JavaScript is used to access and control a lot of those technologies. So HTML5 cannot replace JavaScript or vice versa.

 

You copied that from quoradotcom:

 

https://www.quora.com/Will-HTML5-substitute-JavaScript

 

If your going to use that put it in your own words for christ sake and give credit to the article lawls.  Like I said something needs to replace javascript if HTMLFive doesnt:

 

Like stray said javascript has had and has tons of vulnerabilities.  With java in use and javascript and flash so many vulnerable technologies no wonder the internet is not safe.

 

I hate javascript.

[steven36]

58 minutes ago, Holmes said:

 

 

You copied that from quoradotcom:

 

https://www.quora.com/Will-HTML5-substitute-JavaScript

 

If your going to use that put it in your own words for christ sake and give credit to the article lawls.  Like I said something needs to replace javascript if HTMLFive doesnt:

 

 

 

 

I hate javascript.

You may as well hate html5  too because  it wont work without java script On YouTube there's 27 .js files you have to use  to render  YouTube site and player . Also frames  and 3rd party scripting are worse than most js flies . There putting ads in frames  now days  .  Plus there's canvas fingerprinting  on YouTube and many other sites.

 

If you don't allow  JavaScript the  sit looks like this

 

 

This why  i use a external  party player  to play videos  i can watch videos  i don't have to enable anything  to watch them. all i have to do is click  on the link and they open up in my player.

 

 

[Holmes]

There is a setting in internet explorer that says dont display videos or animation that doesnt use a external media player and it never works videos display with internal player and I have thought about using a external player I have the extensions I want to use dont want additional ones.  I use internet explorer firefox chrome and opera I dont want a additional browser.  Who knows they may be working on something to replace javvascript and I hope they areyour talking about iframes and I realize that and canvas fingerprinting I have a extension that prevents canvas fingerprinting.

[steven36]

12 minutes ago, Holmes said:

There is a setting in internet explorer that says dont display videos or animation that doesnt use a external media player and it never works videos display with internal player and I have thought about using a external player I have the extensions I want to use dont want additional ones.  I use internet explorer firefox chrome and opera I dont want a additional browser.  Who knows they may be working on something to replace javvascript and I hope they areyour talking about iframes and I realize that and canvas fingerprinting I have a extension that prevents canvas fingerprinting.

It works fine for me as long as i keep YouTube DL  updated on Windows and Linux  i can use mpv  addon  or flashget addon ether one to watch them

 

This is using  Firefox , MPV Add-on MPV  and YouTube-DL   not using another browser all open source and free. 

 

 

[Holmes]

OMFG that looks ugly Ill suffer with watching videos with youtube player if I have to use javascript Ill tolerate it for now (unless I can find a external player that doesnt loook ugly).  There is going to be a replacement for javascript and when there is thats when sh*t is going to get better.

[steven36]

10 minutes ago, Holmes said:

OMFG that looks ugly Ill suffer with watching videos with youtube player if I have to use javascript Ill tolerate it for now (unless I can find a external player that doesnt loook ugly).  There is going to be a replacement for javascript and when there is thats when sh*t is going to get better.

Thats' not full screen  that's just minimized on the YouTube page with scripts disabled  that's not what it looks like when i watch it lol .I  have a 1080p  screen  lol

 

The borders  around the players can be changed to what  ever you like I'm  on Linux  and that's just the frame I'm using its called aging gorilla border   that's what  all my apps looks like too tell i deiced to change it lol.

 

 

[Holmes]

I may look into finding a external player I have used youtube player for ever and have never had any problems.  When I get a problem Ill consider switching Im content for now.  I have clicked on the live demo and looks boring I have removed numerous infections from friends and family computers that ended in dotjs.  I think htmlfive has a better future then javascript.