Linux Ported to WebAssembly, Boots in a Browser Tab

“During the past two years or so I have been slow-rolling an effort to port the Linux kernel to WebAssembly,” reads a surprising post on the Linux kernel mailing list.

I’m now at the point where the kernel boots and I can run basic programs from a shell. As you will see if you play around with it for a bit, it’s not very stable and will crash sooner or later, but I think this is a good first step.
Wasm is not necessarily only targeting the web, but that’s how I have
been…