oneamendez/crate-ios: Run Linux VMs on iPhone and iPad

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Crate is an iOS application that runs full Linux distributions in virtual machines entirely on iPhone and iPad devices using a custom Arm64 translation and emulation engine written in Rust. The app features GPU-accelerated graphics through virglrenderer, ANGLE, and MoltenVK, and supports multiple distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, and Arch Linux ARM. Because it requires iOS JIT support, the app must be installed via an unsigned IPA and signed with a user Apple account. Open article →

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