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.
Using cloud environments is a pretty cheap and easy way to do data prevention loss, which is what corpos call it when they implement measures to prevent data from getting leaked. If you store all the data in this and gate this behind 2fa, then getting the main device hacked leaks no data provided the "cloud os" is logged out.
Chromebook users. Docs suck, onlyoffice web sucks less.
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hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 118d
artyom@piefed.social · 3 pts · 118d
Yes, it's a full OS you just access remotely through your browser.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 118d
Hisse@programming.dev · 3 pts · 117d
Well an operating system is a system that ... operates, so even if I made one with one of those lego-block scripting languages it would qualify right?
MouldyCat@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 117d
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.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 117d
So basically your browser (or main OS maybe) is just a hypervisor for this.
p4rzivalrp2@piefed.social · 1 pts · 117d
So a docker container isn't running an os?
lukalix98@programming.dev · 1 pts · 116d
Depends on the container, but yeah, there might not be an os at all.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 117d
deprecateddino@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 118d
Honest question, why does anyone need this? You are presumably already on an OS in order to use this.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev · 7 pts · 118d
2 main reasons.
Using cloud environments is a pretty cheap and easy way to do data prevention loss, which is what corpos call it when they implement measures to prevent data from getting leaked. If you store all the data in this and gate this behind 2fa, then getting the main device hacked leaks no data provided the "cloud os" is logged out.
Chromebook users. Docs suck, onlyoffice web sucks less.
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev · 8 pts · 118d
Similar: anuraos, https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/anuraOS
Anuraos is special because it uses a js linux emulator to execute linux apps. Very, very slowly. But it's there and there is even gui support.