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Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Very interesting news. I haven't tried it out personally; But if it works, I imagine that'd be huge.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This interests me greatly. I would like to try this on a device, but I don't have an extra I can spare to do so.

[–] Baahb 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Put it on your phone. It runs inside a container, so on top of stock android. All your normal phone stuff is still there and running. Worth noting android has good support for mouse and keyboard.

Edit: user below pointed out that this does not appear to be an app, which kinda makes it a weird choice? Seems like there are still better solutions like Userland, Andronix, and LinuxDeploy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

https://github.com/Linux-on-droid/lindroid-rootfs

In this specific github entry it mentions flashing, and with my setup, I would prefer not to flash something onto my phone without some sort of backup.

Unless there is a userland app I can install that I seem to be missing.

[–] Baahb 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I seem to have believed the title of the article before reading the article for some reason. My bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

All good!

[–] Hule 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Funny you should mention UserLAnd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I have seen the likes of similar, like Andronix but I typically don't want to buy into proprietary software where possible. Thank you for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I bought a OnePlus 6 rn, apparently one of the devices where you can put Debian on it.