This part of the merge between Chrome OS and Android and is intended to replace Cros
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Lil Debbie works on Android phones for quite a few years now, devs didn't wait on google to chroot the hell out of android.
Can't believe it's been 10 years since Ms-Dos mobile.
I am pretty sure it was possible even like 15 years ago through unofficial app on Google Play. What's new here?
It's now official™
I remember running some linux distro on my G1 wayy back in the day. Idk if it was debian, but it was a formative learning experience for me since it taught me what "chroot" was.
Like the Nokia N900 did back in 2004 - except it was a real mobile OS (but fully yours)
Ah man sometimes I miss the keyboard on that thing haha.
That headline got me really excited before I realized they meant “in an app”.
here is what you were looking for. https://mastodon.social/@flypig/113925580079997851 there are several native linux projects goin on.
It's just virtualization, the same way you would run a Debian VM under Windows or whatever.
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This doesn't sound like proper linux to me. I want to be able to plug in a USB (or what ever the storage device would be, microUSB for phones I guess) and boot from that. Where 1 image works for any device of the same architecture. This is the main thing I dislike about ARM currently.
I don't think anybody expected that. This is just a shitty headline.
Yeah, and I've never understood why that is. How come you have to build a custom hardware abstraction layer for each device separately on ARM chips?
Because it creates e-waste, and e-waste is immensely profitable.
How about multi-booting via Ventoy?
This is just a Linux VM just like th Crostini in ChromeOS, so I'd expect similar 40%+ performance loss compares to for example proot container through Termux running natively.
The only thing this could probably offer would be giving you better OS GUI Integration into Android, like Crostini on a ChromeOS device. But if that is needed you might as well just use an Android port or an Android equivalent of your Linux software anyway, it's not like you'd ever want to run Matlab, GIMP or OpenFOAM on your Android phone with its tiny screen anyway LMAO
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My dream has been to have a phone that works like a phone until I get home and plug in a monitor and kbm then it's a full fledged PC. Think Dex but not shitty Samsung Android. While I'm dreaming while docked it could also utilize a desktop grade GPU.
May I introduce you to what already existed at one time? (Motorola Atrix 4G from 2011 with Ubuntu desktop when docked.)
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Dex is the closest I can get right now. I'd love to have one device. However I'll need to degoogle and foss more things. I rely on Google Too much for games and such.
Honestly the steamdeck shows we are getting close. It works like that, just in a slightly bigger form factor and without some of the phone hardware.
A little more tech advancement and I think this won't be that hard to do.
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Sorry Google, PostmarketOS will scratch that itch and soon enough eat your lunch: https://postmarketos.org/
I like postmarketos, but lol. Lmao, even.
Samsung’s DEX had a downloadable Linux VM running nearly a decade ago.
And they killed it right?
Never even got to a production release. ☹️
I wish there was a way to side load it. Honestly Samsung really has let too many things slide. Ilafter this s23ultra does I'm not getting another Samsung
I got a second hand note10+ just for that feature, only to find out they deprecated Linux on DeX D:
Motorola had something similar too. Forgot the phone model, but it ran a modified version of ubuntu when you put it in a dock.
Wasn't it just running Android in desktop mode?
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Isn't that Termux?
Yes, except google is slowly killing Termux with a thousand cuts, while they will kill this only after a few years.
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Tested this on my Pixel 8a. Works as you would expect. Personally I have a little hard time coming up with use cases for this but I guess it's kinda cool.
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Man I feel I'd almost wiped the debian install and added NixOS (nix package manager works fine under debian) using nixos-infect
A clean install and a night's sleep and I'll probably forget I was attempting this, but looks promising.
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