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What it is

An iPadOS app that runs an Alpine Linux (aarch64) userland in an emulator with a SwiftUI desktop shell. Linux GUI apps such as Firefox and VS Code appear as native iPad windows via a built-in Wayland compositor, with tiling, workspaces, an ARM64 JIT and GPU acceleration through…

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Developers and power users who want a Linux desktop environment and Linux apps on an iPad with keyboard and trackpad

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