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The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2015-01-31 · latest 2026-06-11

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  1. …around and found this fun project -- basically "Arch Linux in userspace on top of any other Linux": https://github.com/fsquillace/junest
    comment by PufPufPuf · 2026-06-11 · in Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
  2. I can highly recommend: https://github.com/fsquillace/junest
    comment by artemonster · 2025-04-09 · in The chroot Technique – a Swiss army multitool for Linux systems
  3. …-fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" brew install gcc@10 or https://github.com/fsquillace/junest are your friends
    comment by jcelerier · 2020-08-17 · in Show HN: Structopt for C++ – Parse command line arguments by defining a struct
  4. Somewhat related: Run arch on any distro: https://github.com/fsquillace/junest
    comment by fxfan · 2019-03-09 · in Run full Linux distros or specific applications on top of Android
  5. Have you tried with Linux namespaces instead of PRoot? https://github.com/fsquillace/junest#linux-namespaces-based
    comment by da02 · 2017-08-29 · in JuNest: Arch Linux-based distro that runs on any Linux OS, without root access
  6. …https://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/23/WE00001119596 Edit: there's already a bug filled for this: https://github.com/fsquillace/juju/issues/63
    comment by oliwarner · 2015-05-09 · in JuJu: An Arch-based distro that runs on any Linux distros without root access