We just released v0.2 of Endor, our tool for creating dev sandboxes that run Linux inside the Node runtime. With a simple command like

'npx -y u/endorhq/cli@latest run alpine --shell --allow-net'

you can have a fully functional 32bit Alpine Linux instance with networking, within 4-5s. It is ephemeral and sandboxed, so as soon as you press Ctrl-C, everything is gone. Great for quickly testing stuff. It is based on the Wasm engine inside Node, so it runs way slower than native, but usable

More info in our announcement blog post: https://endor.dev/blog/endor-0-2