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A developer somehow got an entire OS running on Google Drive

"Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her," Ersei explains. "I...

In brief: Purdue University computer science student Ersei has achieved an extraordinary technical feat: getting a full Linux distro to boot directly from Google Drive. The method was to create a FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) RAM disk that could load all the essential OS components, apps, and networking binaries directly from Google Drive during the Linux boot process. Some final adjustments for Ethernet, display, and network settings in a unified EFI file later, and the magic actually happened – the laptop booted into a full Arch Linux desktop environment, loaded entirely from Google Drive.

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