Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel

by mlLK on 11/30/2009, 10:09 AM with 14 comments
  • by andybak on 11/30/2009, 12:52 PM

    "Emace: A pretty good operating system, but it could use a better text editor."

    I can't trace the source of this quip but I'm glad someone has set out to prove the first part of it...

  • by viraptor on 11/30/2009, 11:17 AM

    Isn't it possible to do that with any program with no external dependencies?

  • by dryicerx on 11/30/2009, 7:04 PM

    There is actually a easier way to do this. Pass this parameter while in your boot loader

        init=/usr/bin/emacs-nox
    This will fire up emacs instead of init once the kernel is done booting up. You also need mount, but you can run that within emacs.

  • by ramchip on 11/30/2009, 11:06 AM

    Who would have known... it really is an OS.

  • by capablanca on 11/30/2009, 11:18 AM

    Single threaded OS?

  • by spudlyo on 11/30/2009, 3:15 PM

    You could use vim as init as well, it just wouldn't be as much fun, since you couldn't do any programming.

  • by lallysingh on 11/30/2009, 3:26 PM

    Sounds about perfect for netbookin'.