OS.js vs puter

OS.js

OS.js - JavaScript Web Desktop Platform (by os-js)

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puter

🌐 The Internet OS! Free, Open-Source, and Self-Hostable. (by HeyPuter)

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OS.js		puter
	Project
24	Mentions	7
6,757	Stars	16,709
0.0%	Growth	36.6%
0.0	Activity	9.7
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	3 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

OS.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of OS.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-24.

Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 27 Aug 2023

1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 26 Aug 2023

4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023
Show HN: PikaTorrent, a modern, multi-platform, open source BitTorrent app
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2023
Os.js
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2023
Why even have other programming languages?
2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 31 Jan 2023
Cloud Based Desktop Environment
2 projects | /r/software | 16 Nov 2022

OS.js
Why can't there be one ubiquitous programming language that 'does everything' if the underlying principles of coding is all the same?
1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 21 Oct 2022
Let's write Operating System in JavaScript
4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 1 Oct 2022
What did I do to deserve a JavaScript database?
2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 28 Sep 2022

You mean like https://www.os-js.org/ there are a few others also I believe.

puter

Posts with mentions or reviews of puter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.

🛠️Non-AI Open Source Projects that are 🔥
4 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024

Puter is a cloud personal computer, and you can have all your files, apps, and games in one place accessible from anywhere at any time. So, basically a computer in your browser,
Proposal: Signals as a Built-In Primitive of JavaScript
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2024

> it is almost impossible not to use any of those frameworks.
Agreed, but because it’s a lot easier to just search for “React programmer” these days than it is to evaluate lots of JavaScript candidates, which has a much wider scope and proficiency level. And they’ll fit right in when hired.
But not because it’s not inherently scalable. See puter[1] for instance, a fairly complex, 100k+ lines of code of direct DOM manipulation (jQuery, IIRC)
https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter
Puter Self-hosted – Open-sourced 100k lines of code to self-host Puter
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Mar 2024
FLaNK AI for 11 March 2024
46 projects | dev.to | 11 Mar 2024
Show HN: 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS"
12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2024

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OS.js and puter you can also consider the following projects:

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atomos - JS-based Linux desktop environment.

Guacamole - The Guacamole project is now Apache Guacamole (http://guacamole.apache.org/). This repository has been repurposed as the base for the Apache Guacamole packages built for Glyptodon Enterprise.

arozos - Web Desktop Operating System for low power platforms, Now written in Go!

GateOne - Gate One is an HTML5-powered terminal emulator and SSH client

greenworks - a node.js plugin to integrate nw.js/electron games with steamworks

purescript - A strongly-typed language that compiles to JavaScript

deno - A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

awesome-web-desktops - Websites, web apps, portfolios which look like desktop operating systems

cylon.js - JavaScript framework for robotics, drones, and the Internet of Things (IoT)

immutable-js - Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.

vessel - Vessel is a portable web operating system distribution. By deploying the vessel machine you have pre-configured servers such as Portainer, Owncloud, Jenkins, Redis, LAMP, Ubuntu XFCE with noVNC, MySQL and more!