You can, iSh is a container of Alpine Linux.
I admittedly don't do much of anything with it, but it's neat to have.
Neat, I didn't know about that.
I wonder why they emulate x86 instead of targeting ARM though.
It doesn't make much difference, since either way they can't run native code - iOS makes this virtually impossible.
More in depth discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18425106
I kind of appreciate Apple's approach to simplicity. I use an iPad because I don't want to maintain another computer; syncing configuration, updating packages, etc. But it basically means that I use it as a "dumb terminal" when I hear it has a surprisingly fast processor. Seems like a waste.