Kittens_coding wrote:

imma use this as my main os now

thanks a lot

INSERT-USER_NAME wrote:

SOMeone made a yt vid on this

bilman66 wrote:

Hi! Some of yal might have seen my previous post where I showed off a little bit of Linux running on Scratch. Well a lot has changed since then! It's now fully functional and on the scratch website! https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/892602496

Use TurboWarp (this turbowarp works best, created by @Tacodude7729): https://experiments.turbowarp.org/next/892602496

mchen2010 wrote:

someone should port DSL (>20kb) linux over.

leogames2016 wrote:

mchen2010 wrote:

someone should port DSL (>20kb) linux over.

It would be a lot of work to try to port DSL (wait,the full name of this distribution breaks the community guidelines possibly due to a swear word i cannot mention cause the filter.)


Scratch wouldn't handle DSL at usable speeds,You want Firefox or any lightweight distribution? Too bad,scratch wouldn't handle it.


And i still believe linux won't run on scratch or cannot be ported to scratch due to Scratch's limitation,but if i remember,people kept saying Scratch is Turing-complete.


Also necrobump out there,But this seems related to the discussion.

ajskateboarder wrote:

leogames2016 wrote:

Scratch is “TURING COMPLETE”? But it cannot do turning operations, do it?

Scratch can do Turing operations so it is Turing complete

Also you´re trying to turn Scratch,an simple educational programming language into a C (one example of a programming language that can do operating systems,as well as its variants) programming language? That goes too far,there is a reason why Scratch is so simple. It´s in the levels of Python.

Scratch can do basically everything C can, except for OS-level things. It's also just as simple if you don't include pointer references (which are honestly not too hard). This guy over here ported the Risc-V emulator to plain C, and it basically involves no system allocations and stuff.

davidtheplatform wrote:

You also need some form of memory. Scratch has both so it can run anything, as long as someone makes an emulator or ports it to scratch.

Really? Scratch has memory? I didnt know this fact,I thought it didnt have memory for simplicity,Is that the reason why Trollsome 64 straight-up crashes on most computers?

I think when david refers to memory, it can just be a giant array

Ghxstify2009 wrote:

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You still can do OS-like things. Such as; saved passwords, creating new accounts, etc. The only thing I have found that doesn't work too well is a search engine, which you could create manually but it would be a huge pain.

BigNate469 wrote:

Ghxstify2009 wrote:

~snip~
You still can do OS-like things. Such as; saved passwords, creating new accounts, etc. The only thing I have found that doesn't work too well is a search engine, which you could create manually but it would be a huge pain.

How would you even go about doing that? even a partially HTML5, ECMAScript 2023 and CSS standards-compliant browser would be really laggy in Scratch and/or run into the project JSON limit.

Ghxstify2009 wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

Ghxstify2009 wrote:

~snip~
You still can do OS-like things. Such as; saved passwords, creating new accounts, etc. The only thing I have found that doesn't work too well is a search engine, which you could create manually but it would be a huge pain.

How would you even go about doing that? even a partially HTML5, ECMAScript 2023 and CSS standards-compliant browser would be really laggy in Scratch and/or run into the project JSON limit.

Hard to explain in a singular comment thread, but look into the team I was a part of called ‘Mobile OS’.

mchen2010 wrote:

someone should port DSL (>20kb) linux over.

Redstone1080 wrote:

Would be crazy if you could get a full desktop environment working using this. I bet it would require insane amounts of optimization to get it to run at usable speed, however.

Redstone1080 wrote:

Would be crazy if you could get a full desktop environment working using this. It would require insane amounts of optimization to get it to run at usable speed, however, perhaps even a full rewrite of the Scratch VM using a faster language than JavaScript.

BigNate469 wrote:

Redstone1080 wrote:

Would be crazy if you could get a full desktop environment working using this. I bet it would require insane amounts of optimization to get it to run at usable speed, however.

unless you ran it on a supercomputer, but who runs Scratch on a supercomputer? Besides, most of those already run UNIX-like systems
Honestly, I think it's a cool project and a cool idea. Eventually, though, you're going to run into the project json limit or it's going to lag like hell even on Turbowarp.

leogames2016 wrote:

BigNate469 wrote:

Redstone1080 wrote:

Would be crazy if you could get a full desktop environment working using this. I bet it would require insane amounts of optimization to get it to run at usable speed, however.

unless you ran it on a supercomputer, but who runs Scratch on a supercomputer? Besides, most of those already run UNIX-like systems
Honestly, I think it's a cool project and a cool idea. Eventually, though, you're going to run into the project json limit or it's going to lag like hell even on Turbowarp.

sorry to say,but everyone on scratch uses windows,not linux or anything like that. i bet supercomputers can't run scratch unless their browsers support webgl,which is unlikely