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

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An entirely local browser-based “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 PWA (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)
• 32 bit version of glibc (needed for building rootfs, lib32-glibc on Arch Linux)
• clang
• uuid-runtime
• jq
• docker
• An x86(-64) Linux PC (make rootfs-alpine build depends on x86 specific tools)

• Clone the repository with git clone --recursive https://github.com/MercuryWorkshop/anuraOS
• Then, make all

• Make sure you have Docker installed and running.
• Make sure to add yourself to the Docker group using usermod -a -G docker $USER
• Run make rootfs

You can run Anura with the command

make server

Anura should now be running at localhost:8000.

App development is highly encouraged! Good apps can even be added to the official app repositories after review by an AnuraOS maintainer. Apps are stored in .app files which are read by AnuraOS to provide you, well, an app!

For more information about developing an AnuraOS app please visit this page and for using Anura API’s in your code, please visit this page.

AnuraOS is created by Mercury Workshop. Linux emulation is based off of the v86 project. For more credits, see CREDITS.MD.

(p.s. for hackers: the entrypoint to anura is src/Boot.tsx)