Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:13:14 +0000

Friday fun: if you missed the news last year, let's boot Linux or play Doom in a PDF document (works at least in a Chrome-based browser).

Check out these projects for more details:

https://github.com/ading2210/linuxpdf
https://github.com/ading2210/doompdf

Is this taking advantage of a vulnerability in Chrome's PDF reader? Not really, it relies on PDF's Javascript support.

The Linux demo is based on RISC-V, by the way!