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Note that this is not Blink the rendering engine that powers Chromium and related browsers, but https://github.com/jart/blink, “a virtual machine that runs x86-64-linux programs on different operating systems and hardware architectures”.

Where this talks of running GUI programs, I presume it means that the VM can act as an X client. You would thus still need an X server. I don’t know what may exist along those lines for the web. As for native/desktop hosts, well, I hope you weren’t ever trying to use emulation as any form of security, because the likes of Xorg really aren’t designed for that use case.

parent chrismorgan 3 years ago

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