May 02, 2025 20:00:00

Linux In Excel project to run Linux on Excel

There are many daredevils on the Internet who run various software in unlikely places, such as

using a Wii as a web server or playing DOOM in Windows Notepad . Recently, 18-year-old computer enthusiast NSG650 has released the results of his project ' Linux In Excel ' to run Linux on Excel.

GitHub - NSG650/LinuxInExcel
https://github.com/NSG650/LinuxInExcel

You can see Linux In Excel in action by playing the following video posted by technology YouTuber Enderman .

Running Linux in Microsoft Excel - YouTube


Open the file 'linux.xlsm' from the Linux In Excel repository in Excel.

Then, the Linux startup log is displayed in a sheet format, with one cell per line.

Enter 'root' in cell C2.

I was able to log in as root.

The ls and cd commands also worked fine.

Linux In Excel is a project aimed at running Linux on an Excel sheet. However, it does not implement the Linux kernel using Excel functions or macros, but rather calls the RISC-V emulator '

riscv_emufun (mini-rv32ima) ' via a VBA macro and writes the emulator's output to a cell. According to NSG650, 'It's clearly cheating because the emulator is not reimplemented with Excel functions or VBA macros.'