Kotonemu

A Linux Emulator for JavaScript

How to use

import { Emulator } from "kotonemu";
import ShalfeltOS from "kotonemu/os";

const { options, storage } = ShalfeltOS(xterm_terminal_object);
const emulator = new Emulator(options, storage);
emulator.run();

ShalfeltOS 0.1.0
Copyright (C) 2024 Kotonone and ShalfeltOS contributors

kotonepc login: a
Password: b
Last login: Wed Dec  9 04:09:57 on tty1
[kotone@kotonepc /]$

Purpose

When you want to implement a Linux-like PC that can actually be operated by the user in software written in JavaScript.

For example, ... games that put a little too much emphasis on technology?

Implemented system calls

• open
• close
• seek
• read
• write
• stat, fstat, lstat
• unlink
• mkdir
• readdir
• rmdir
• symlink
• readlink
• uname
• chown, fchown, lchown
• chmod, fchmod
• getuid, setuid
• getgid, setgid
• spawn
• exec

For contributors

You can start the development server with the following command:

pnpm run dev