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> I never understood why there isn’t something like this for iOS. Android is natively Linux, so launching a chroot isn’t really all that hard. On iOS things a
by josteink 8y ago
> I never understood why there isn’t something like this for iOS.
Android is natively Linux, so launching a chroot isn’t really all that hard.
On iOS things are very different and you’ll need to fake the whole stack. (Also Apple policies blah blah)
- ams6110 8y agoIs it? I thought iOS was BSD/Darwin like MacOS is, deep under the covers.
- josteink 8y agoMaybe you don't need to fake a full stack to run a Unix-like environment. But to run a proper, Linux-environment, a mainstream distro, you can't rely on what iOS natively provides. At least not with some rather decent intermediate layers.
- tambourine_man 8y agoThat’s not it. We have all those tools on MacOS which share much of the same underpinnings with iOS