{"id":23397,"date":"2018-11-15T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T19:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23397"},"modified":"2024-11-26T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:10:25","slug":"emulating-linux-and-classic-mac-os-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/15\/emulating-linux-and-classic-mac-os-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"Emulating Linux and Classic Mac OS on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/linux\/ish-an-ios-linux-shell-for-your-iphone-or-ipad\/\">Lawrence Abrams<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/linux\/ish-an-ios-linux-shell-for-your-iphone-or-ipad\/\">\n<p>Have you ever wanted to run a Linux shell on your iOS device to transfer files, write shell scripts, or simply to use Vi to develop code or edit files?  Now you can, with a project called iSH that is currently available as a TestFlight beta for iOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>iSH is a project that aims to bring a Linux shell to iOS devices using a usermode x86 emulator. iSH is built on the Alpine Linux distro, which is designed to have a small footprint, be secure, and easy to use with little or no distracting bells and whistles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really cool but would seem to violate lots of App Store guidelines.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/namedfork.net\/minivmac\/\">Mini vMac for iOS<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/b3ll\/status\/1062957010616901633\">Adam Bell<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/namedfork.net\/minivmac\/\">\n<ul>\n<li>Emulates Mac Plus, Mac II or Mac 128K<\/li>\n<li>Full simulated keyboard (including all Mac keys)<\/li>\n<li>Full sound output<\/li>\n<li>Uses external keyboard if available<\/li>\n<li>Regulable emulation speed<\/li>\n<li>Easy(ish) to import\/export disk images<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"emulating-linux-and-classic-mac-os-on-ios-update-2018-11-19\">Update (2018-11-19): See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/atp.fm\/episodes\/300\">Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Abrams: Have you ever wanted to run a Linux shell on your iOS device to transfer files, write shell scripts, or simply to use Vi to develop code or edit files? Now you can, with a project called iSH that is currently available as a TestFlight beta for iOS devices. iSH is a project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-15T19:56:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"0141f590-8f70-4f07-9d2e-00b6fe332d1f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-11-26T15:10:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAUH1kI9wTwedLgC2_jMtHw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,733,31,1610,26,448,30,2692,74,922],"class_list":["post-23397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-emulator","tag-ios","tag-ios-12","tag-iosapp","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-mini-vmac","tag-opensource","tag-system-7"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23422,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions\/23422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}