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Re:The Failure of the iPad by samatman on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:53PM (#22188941)
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.

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Re:The Failure of the iPad by jrockway on Thursday January 30, 2020 @06:03AM (#22190512)
Neat, I didn't know about that.

I wonder why they emulate x86 instead of targeting ARM though.

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Re:The Failure of the iPad by dTal on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:07PM (#22195590)
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

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