Microterm

What Microterm Is

Microterm is a fully compliant Linux virtual machine that runs in any browser tab. It is designed for real development and operations workflows, not demo-only terminal output. You can use it on desktop, tablets, and phones, including iOS home-screen PWA installs.

Under the hood, Microterm combines Ghostty-style web terminal rendering and a TinyEMU-backed Alpine Linux guest on RISC-V64. The VM image is chunk-loaded in the browser and booted locally.

Why Developers Use It

• 100% local compute model with maximum privacy for code and data.
• Up to 40 GB persistent local storage for long-running projects.
• Run SSH sessions to remote servers from your pocket Linux VM.
• Use Codex to vibe code full websites from mobile.
• Learn Linux networking and Kubernetes basics with real network tooling.
• Run Nginx locally and serve web apps from the VM.
• Connect your VM to other devices securely through built-in Tailscale.
• Run RISC-V64 compatible container workloads and custom payloads.

Built-In Software

• Alpine Linux (full userspace)
• bash
• coreutils
• sudo
• htop
• iptables
• fastfetch
• git
• make
• micro
• sqlite
• jq
• ripgrep
• brotli
• vips-tools
• curl
• openssh-client
• nginx
• croc
• nodejs
• npm
• codex
• javascriptcore (jsc), Bun integration WIP

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Microterm boots a real Linux guest image in the browser worker pipeline, loads VM chunks with progress signals, and then starts the terminal session. This lets users access a consistent Linux environment from almost any modern browser while keeping compute local to the device.

How People Find Microterm

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