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Anura OS

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

What is AnuraOS?​

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.

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Due to numerous issues with Firefox's implementation of certain web standards, it is not supported on Anura. Please use a chromium-based browser or you will have a significantly diminished user experience. Safari is also fully compatible, as long as you have MacOS Sonoma, or iPadOS/iOS 17 or later.

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.

What can AnuraOS do?​

  • Run linux GUI apps from a terminal

Development

important

Anura will not build on Windows. Please use a Linux VM or WSL

Easy Install (When in a codespace)​

  • Run bash codespace-basic-setup.sh
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If you are not in a codespace skip to the regular installation steps. This does NOT build RootFS.

Installation​

  • Make sure you have rustup and run the command: rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
  • You also need to have a C compiler, inotifytools and a decent version of java installed
  • Clone the repository with git clone --recursive
  • Then, make all
  • NOTE: You can use make all -B instead if you want to force a full build.

Building ROOTFS​

  • Make sure you have Docker installed and running.
  • Run make rootfs
  • Make sure to add yourself to the Docker group using usermod -a -G docker $USER
  • (Special Use Case) In the event that you should need to override/manually add the initrd and kernel, remember to keep track of the file names of initrd and vmlinuz in build/images/debian-boot/. Then, copy them to the Anura root directory and rename them to initrd.img and bzimage respectively.(See the extended instructions.)

Running Anura​

You can run anura with the command

make server

Or, run authenticated with

cd server
npm start -- --auth

After Installation​

NOTE: Anura uses recent web technologies, and is unstable in Gecko. Chromium is strongly recommended as it has seen the best results.

  • If you started the server, Anura should be running at localhost:8000.

Documentation​

Still being written. (See the current index of documentation)

Security​

See SecurityMD for reporting instructions.

Credits​

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