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I highly doubt that you're going to get a proper shell on the iPad.
by lykr0n 7y ago
I highly doubt that you're going to get a proper shell on the iPad.
- derefr 7y agoI'm assuming you mean a shell into the iPad's own Unix environment. You could build something for iOS that works like Crouton does on ChromeOS just fine. (Just, nobody has done it yet, for some reason. The iPad Pro is plenty powerful enough to run VMs!)
- matthewbauer 7y agoI don't think it's as easy as crouton. There's no chroot or user namespace equivalent for XNU.
- saagarjha 7y agoiSH does this by emulating Linux rather than virtualizing it.
- BlackRing 7y agoBoth Pythonista and OpenTerm on iOS are "good enough" for a lot of what I need, but it would be nice to have a proper shell. Even if it's jailed/locked to /private/var/mobile