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Re:iSH – A Linux shell on iOS by snazz on Sunday November 11, 2018 @11:43AM (#18427204)
I think what we need is a port of Qemu. If you've ever used JSLinux[0] on an iPad, you know that it's plenty powerful to emulate riscv64 or x86 fast enough (even in JavaScript), so if there would be a proper PC emulation layer on an iPad you could run anything (Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, NT, even full macOS).

[0]: https://bellard.org/jslinux/

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Re:iSH – A Linux shell on iOS by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:13PM (#18427354)
> even full macOS

And hilariously enough, I think that would actually be within Apple's license, since an iPad is, after all, Apple branded Hardware.

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Re:iSH – A Linux shell on iOS by FullyFunctional on Sunday November 11, 2018 @01:12PM (#18427669)
Actually a good enough port of TinyEMU/RISC-V allowing for network communication and persistent storage would probably make the iPad interesting for me. Would Apple allow such a thing on the App Store? It would still have to be open source of course.

Fedora/RISC-V is dangerously close to being useful; the only apps I miss are a couple of the big hurdles: Firefox, GHC, and Java.

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