You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF

6 comments

• eslaught 1 hour ago
  Post is new but the original PDF is from 2025:

  Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775

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  • nialv7 34 minutes ago
    seems like an account reposting stuff to get attention to advertise his AI stuff.
• matthewsinclair 3 days ago
  And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf
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  • ge96 8 minutes ago
    Is there a writeup somewhere on how it works?

    Is it turing complete, runs actual linux binary through wasm or something

    edit: went to tweet RISC-V emulator in PDF
• robinsonb5 3 days ago
  Just like Doom-in-a-PDF, this is in equal measure incredibly impressive and utterly horrifying that it's possible.
• karel-3d 16 minutes ago
  This is a low effort blogspam. (Twitterspam?)
• RajT88 1 hour ago
  butwhy.gif
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  • layer8 1 hour ago
    People keep being amazed that Turing-complete mechanisms can run any program. ;)
  • tombert 1 hour ago
    Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.
• cyanydeez 1 hour ago
  Can we use it as an AI sandbox!