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Online Open Source OS Puter Becomes More Awesome With Office Offering (itsfoss.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by cm0002 to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 12 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Puter is an operating system that runs inside a web browser.

Does that really qualify as an "operating system"?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Yes, it's a full OS you just access remotely through your browser.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

You don't "access it through your browser" though, right? Based on how I understood the concept it's just ("just") Javascript running in your browser.

I mean, it's a neat project, but I'm still not convinced it qualifies as an operating system

[–] Hisse@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

With that logic everything is an operating system