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I use iSH, that provides a complete Alpine Linux environment: https://ish.app https://ish.app A-Shell seems to be very limited and additional packages cannot b
by jedisct1 7y ago
I use iSH, that provides a complete Alpine Linux environment: https://ish.app https://ish.app
A-Shell seems to be very limited and additional packages cannot be installed. What are uses cases for which A-Shell would be a better fit than iSH?
- robenkleene 7y agoIt’s in the App Store, for one.
- softwarejosh 7y agois that really valid here? i-sh is on testflight, the intersection of cant figure out testflight and can use a terminal must be pretty low.
- maxmcd 7y agoIsn't there an upper limit on the number testflight users?
- saagarjha 7y agoYes, 10,000. iSH is also distributed as an IPA that you can sign and install.
- maxmcd 7y agoDo you need a paid apple developer account to sign and install it?
- mmcwilliams 7y agoYou can sign it with a free developer account, but I believe that you have to re-sign every 7 days as opposed to every year with a paid developer account.
- shbooms 7y agoi can use a terminal and didn't know testflight even existed... so there's at least one.
- 0x0 7y agoTestflight builds expire after 90 days, appstore apps live forever.
- zapzupnz 7y agoWhen you don't want to run everything through a slow emulator
- obituary_latte 7y agoI thought it said you can install additional packages with pip? That said, iSH has been very fun to play with (and even useful a couple times).
- goerz 7y agoiSH is unusably slow to use it for editing with vim. A-Shell is basically a fully functional "vim in iOS" and serves as my default iOS text editor.