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The next-gen webOS and development environment with full linux emulation.

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An entirely local browser “OS” and development environment with complete graphical linux emulation, visually based on chromiumOS. See a demo here, fully in your browser.

Anura uses the features of a progressive web app to make its environment work fully offline, providing a virtual filesystem (synced with the linux emulator), a code editor, and a modular and extensible app system. You can even edit Anura’s code live while inside of it!

Anura shows as more of a proof-of-concept with what’s possible on the modern web rather than an actual product. However, it proves useful in many actual cases and is a useful educational tool.

  • Run source codespace-basic-setup.sh
  • Recent versions of node.js and npm
  • wget
  • A recent version of java (11+)
  • inotifytools
  • rustup
  • wasm-opt
  • make
  • gcc (gcc-multilib on Debian and Ubuntu x86_64)
  • clang
  • uuid-runtime
  • jq
  • docker
  • An x86(-64) Linux PC (make rootfs-alpine build depends on x86 specific tools)
git clone --recursive https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/anuraOS
make all
  • Make sure you have Docker installed and running.
make rootfs
usermod -a -G docker $USER

You can run Anura with the command

make server

Anura should now be running at localhost:8000.

See the current index of documentation here.

See SECURITY.md for reporting instructions.

AnuraOS is created by Mercury Workshop. Linux emulation is based off of the v86 project