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ISH: Linux on jailbreak-free iPhones via userspace emulation

story by n2d4 · 2024-12-30 · 8 comments

…This is usually as much support as I need on my phone or iPad to connect to a remote server. https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by mbreese · 2024-09-04 · in Coding on iPad using self-hosted VSCode, Caddy, and code-server

Try iSH iOS app[1],from there you can install GCC to run C code [2]. [1] https://github.com/ish-app/ish [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/ish/comments/r9irjs/ish_with_cc/

comment by kbn · 2024-09-02 · in Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad?

You can run iSH on the device for Linux (somewhat limited). It’s on the App Store https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by zitterbewegung · 2024-07-11 · in Qualcomm's Oryon core: A long time in the making

…https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-shell/id1473805438 [3]: https://holzschu.github.io/a-Shell_iOS/ [4]: https://github.com/ish-app/ish?tab=readme-ov-file

comment by k310 · 2024-06-25 · in ISH: Linux shell running on iOS, using usermode x86 emulation

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ISH: Linux shell running on iOS, using usermode x86 emulation

story by Shank · 2024-06-25 · 1 comment

If you're curious, iSH's source is public: https://github.com/ish-app/ish You're correct that there is no Linux kernel emulation. They went with reimplementation for that. However, the userland is very much emulated x86 binaries. You can…

comment by kmeisthax · 2024-06-10 · in Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores

…itself from being suspended when it goes out of focus, like playing sound, geolocation etc. [1] https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues/249#issuecomment-54433...

comment by qweqwe14 · 2024-03-02 · in Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative

…a tailcall to the next function; like the threaded code technique used by some Forth interpreters." https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by meindnoch · 2023-12-30 · in ScummVM on the App Store

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ISH: Linux shell running on iOS/iPadOS, using usermode x86 emulation

story by redundantly · 2023-07-25 · 1 comment

…binaries if needed. But for me it still couldn’t replace a dedicated laptop for proper tasks. [1]: https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by SyrupThinker · 2023-06-30 · in Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake

Would `ish` work? https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by ngai_aku · 2023-04-30 · in Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app

https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/kernel/calls.c

comment by saagarjha · 2023-04-15 · in Searchable Linux Syscall Table for x86 and x86_64

…code is known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive harm. https://github.com/ish-app/ish#a-note-on-the-jit

comment by notpushkin · 2022-11-24 · in Emacs on an iPad

…the iSH app[1] can run Emacs without jailbreaking the iPad. I use it a lot, but not for Emacs. [1] https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by wmwragg · 2022-11-24 · in Emacs on an iPad

…been able to really do a full implementation yet. The primary consumer of this work would be iSH ( https://github.com/ish-app/ish ), which has a need for a fast interpreter, so you can at least take a look at the current implementation to…

comment by saagarjha · 2022-11-23 · in Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically

…l.com/2021/12/29/gnarbox-may-be-dead-so-buye... - Ish still requires a hack to run in the background: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Running-in-background (maybe things are changing now with today's announcements?) - UTM has a number…

comment by seltzered_ · 2022-06-07 · in iPadOS 16

Check out ish.app also! https://ish.app/ https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by aspenmayer · 2022-04-08 · in Buffereditor – Code and Text Editor for iPhone, iPad and iPad Pro

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Linux Shell for iOS

story by agmm · 2022-01-09 · 0 comments

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story by tosh · 2022-01-03 · 0 comments

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ISH: Linux Shell for iOS

story by redundantly · 2021-12-19 · 0 comments

…issues[0]. It's also focused on console applications, so no GUI app support anytime soon. 0: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues

comment by judge2020 · 2021-11-05 · in Apple, its control over the iPhone, and the internet

…fool ourselves that it's anywhere near being a replacement for a fully functional computer. [1]: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues/63 [2]: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues/137

comment by imiric · 2021-08-14 · in Unifying iPadOS and macOS

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This code is known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects...

story by yagizdegirmenci · 2021-03-20 · 0 comments

…example of such a tool. It emulates an x86 Linux userspace on top of iOS. [1] https://ish.app/ [2] https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by chenxiaolong · 2021-02-24 · in Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing

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Ish: Linux Shell for iOS

story by yagizdegirmenci · 2020-12-28 · 0 comments

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iSH's Built in APK

story by tech234a · 2020-12-09 · 0 comments

FWIW, iSH has prebuilt binaries: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/releases

comment by saagarjha · 2020-11-08 · in About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store

SSH works, see their wiki[1] for installing apk. After that run apk add openssh. 1. https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Installing-apk

comment by onedr0p · 2020-11-04 · in Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app with no rooting

…web servers should work (Python certainly does, I just checked on my iPhone). Can you file a bug at https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues with more details?

comment by saagarjha · 2020-10-23 · in iSH Shell

Line https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/jit/gadgets-aarch... and the subsequent lines sum it up nicely: # also hell {{{ .ifin(\op, bt) read_bullshit \size, \op\size\()_mem .endifin .ifin(\op, btc,bts,btr) write_bullshit \size,…

comment by nneonneo · 2020-10-23 · in iSH Shell

…the developers of the application (collectively, the "iSH developers") under the terms available at https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/LICENSE.md (the "License"). These license terms are an agreement (the "Agreement") between you…

comment by saagarjha · 2020-10-22 · in iSH Shell

This is correct https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues/249 > You can now keep the app running in the background with the invocation cat /dev/location > /dev/null &

comment by wlesieutre · 2020-10-22 · in iSH Shell

…of the app. Many of their how-tos still contain apk commands which no longer function. For example: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Running-a-Python-Web-Ser... .

comment by tl · 2020-10-22 · in iSH Shell

uname reports what we tell it to report ;) https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/master/kernel/uname.c . iSH is sandboxed as any other app on the store would be, but some have had success running GUI apps and connecting to them via VNC.

comment by saagarjha · 2020-10-22 · in iSH Shell

…project to get a Linux shell running on iOS, using usermode x86 emulation and syscall translation." https://github.com/ish-app/ish/ So theoretically it could be like an isolated computer game and have no access to anything from the…

comment by waterhouse · 2020-10-22 · in iSH Shell

https://github.com/ish-app/ish/issues/249 This seems like a workaround so that the app can continue running in the background.

comment by terrorbilly · 2020-10-22 · in iSH Shell

…ensure that the calculation was done at runtime rather than at compile time for this exact reason: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/18176b6931d69bdabe48f137... . If anyone knows how to control floating point rounding in C reliably, I'd…

comment by saagarjha · 2020-06-27 · in GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value

…or events server-side, which I find lacking. Anyone know of tools that scratch this itch? [1] https://github.com/ish-app/ish

comment by aspenmayer · 2020-06-13 · in Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump

…of executable code is difficult to get past app review”. If you question is “why x86”, then see https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/FAQ#q-why-does-ish-not-e...

comment by saagarjha · 2020-04-27 · in A-Shell: Terminal for iOS

Not by Apple, but here’s two: https://github.com/ish-app/ish https://github.com/linux-noah/noah They have varying stages of support for Linux syscalls.

comment by saagarjha · 2020-04-15 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

…disallowed. Check out iSH (free, available as a testflight, but also open source on GitHub) - https://github.com/tbodt/ish It's a full user mode x86 emulator, letting you run alpine Linux in a nice terminal, and install packages from it. I…

comment by g_p · 2020-04-04 · in Secret iPad

https://github.com/tbodt/ish https://github.com/linux-noah/noah

comment by saagarjha · 2020-03-27 · in Darling – Run macOS software on Linux

…badge on the ISH github README that counts how many times the word fuck shows up in the codebase https://github.com/tbodt/ish

comment by miguelmota · 2020-03-19 · in ISH: An Alpine Linux Shell on iOS

Not the author, but I did write the FAQ entry for this: https://github.com/tbodt/ish/wiki/FAQ#q-why-does-ish-not-emu...

comment by saagarjha · 2020-03-19 · in ISH: An Alpine Linux Shell on iOS

…full JIT like UTM, but it's an interesting workaround for iOS' restrictions. Official description: https://github.com/tbodt/ish#a-note-on-the-jit

comment by kdrag0n · 2020-02-21 · in QEMU for iOS

There’s a short tutorial on their wiki for anyone interested: https://github.com/tbodt/ish/wiki/Running-a-VNC-Server

comment by tech234a · 2020-01-18 · in I've been working on X11 on jailbroken iOS

…interpretation is nothing new. Notably, Forth compilers have often used it; the iSH x86 emulator ( https://github.com/tbodt/ish ) is a more recent example of this technique.

comment by saagarjha · 2020-01-13 · in Wasm3 – A high performance WebAssembly interpreter in C

You may enjoy this README, written by a friend: https://github.com/tbodt/ish#a-note-on-the-jit

comment by saagarjha · 2019-10-30 · in CorkScrew: A tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies

…apparently shown up. It is definitely the best shell emulator I have come across for my iPad. [1] https://github.com/tbodt/ish/issues/371

comment by hulahoof · 2019-05-23 · in I was wrong about the iPad Pro