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[–] 47 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Very cool ! Finally something to do with my old phones lying around

(but who commits their .DS_Store file tho ? 🙈)

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I'm convinced Mac users just become blind to the file. I see it all over repos at work.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago

    Incredible things are happening with termux.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Are phones with 3gb of ram considered "old" already?

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    This doesn't look like another alpine vm. But maybe I misread the install script. I see it uses apt so some sort of Debian base? If so, no root, GPU accelerated, not virtualized, Linux on Android is quite the accomplishment.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's an installer for Termux packages. You can do the same thing manually in Termux shell, if you know the names of packages you are installing.

    And yes, Termux uses Debian apt package manager.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Just to put it out here. Termux has proot-distro that allows you to run qite a few distros as containers. Technically not a VM afaik. I find it useful, because it is sometimes simpler to wipe that instead of reinstalling Termux.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    You never needed a VM to run Linux apps on Android. Android can run Linux apps because it is already a Linux operating system. This is like referring to a docker container as "running Linux on Debian" or whatever.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    If by Linux you mean "literally everything except Linux" though, then sure. But I prefer to say what I mean and mean what I say

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Is it possible to have a no-graphical session ? Boot on tmux directly for example ? That's could be great!

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    we really need a user friendly gui app tgat can finish tge whole setup into a linux environment quickly and easily. think of it like carlimaries installer for linux on Android

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    This, apart from the home assistant use, may be a great solution for an all in one klipper setup for 3d printers (I currently use a RasPi, and a tablet as a touchscreen), or installed inside a chunky keyboard, paired with one of these USB C all in one hubs as a PC in a keyboard build,. Neat.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Any way to hook old phones to an external screen without wifi? Because that'd make this even better

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Is Termux an operating system by itself?

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