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Any closer to getting Linux on old iPads?
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Getting a Linux mobile OS on it would probably have a lot of issues, Ubuntu touch for example just supports the most popular phones as of now.
However it would work in theory you'd have to do some really weird low level gymnastics and one shot the execution to run Linux natively.
Alternatively you could use a VM to run Linux and try to work around that.
https://ipadlinux.org/
Disregard that, I see that the iPad 2 and iPad mini are not eligible since the min iOS version is 11. All devices since 2012 work though, hope that helps someone else. Sorry.
See here for a table https://iosref.com/ios