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Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration

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

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What's the difference to "Linux deploy"?
Yo dawg, I heard you like Linux. So I built a Linux container for your Linux phone. Now you can enjoy Linux while enjoying your Linux phone.
- We definitely living in a simulation.
  
  Not that I don't disagree with you, but how did you come down to this conclusion?
  
  Wonder if it's running on Linux
- You can call it GNU/Linux if the same name for OS and kernel turns out to be confusing for you.
You need a phone, tablet, or other device that’s been rooted.

Damit
- Rule of thumb for android users, all of the interesting shit is shit you can't do unless you're rooted.
  
  I remember when it used to be all the REALLY interesting stuff was root only, yet a lot of normal interesting stuff was non-root. Now even with root, modern Android can be a pain and the interesting stuff just pales in comparison with true Linux
- Me in this thread: revolvingdoor.gif
- look into proot+termux-x11 if you don't have a rooted device, it's still very good.
  
  It's just quite a bit slower. Everything else other than messing with /sys and android processes works the same.
  
  HDMI, mouse and keyboard and you have an office pc.
  
  I looked on the play store and fdroid, haven't found anything. I'd love to have a Linux chroot with CLI linux software, don't want to root my phone. Halp.
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula
TLDR: Easy installation of something like Termux, GUI, Kwin and KDE, and a graphical display.

This is really good!
- Not really. It seems to use a very different technology from termux.
  
  it's actually not that far off a chroot, it uses LXC, the really cool thing thats going on is this wayland integration, I was waiting for termux-gui + wlroots to come along, but this might just land first
You could emulate Android on Linux before, now you can also emulate Linux on Android

The circle of libe is compleet
- Now the only question is: How deep can you go?
  
  We can also emulate windows on android and WSL obviously on windows.
  
  So we can use Linux to emulate Android, which in turn emulates windows to run WSL
- @lemmyreader @cafuneandchill PostmarketOS in chroot in termux in waydroid on PostmarketOS 🤘
- well it's not really emulation, if you are familiar with LXC it's that, it's pretty much a super chroot
  
  Technically true, but it's easier to refer to it as emulation
- I have been running arm32 elf binaries and Xorg on my HTC M8 stock kernel with Android 4. That's not a new thing. Libreoffice and Xfce ran pretty well on that thing.
I recall using an app way back when I used to root and haxor all the mobiles that would do this. Kind of a virtualbox for the Nexus phones/tablets, but it needed root to do it. Will have to look into this, would be interesting if it can do so in user space somehow.

Edit: Damn, still needs root. Was a longshot to be able to hook into system resources without it but was hoping for some bridge function.
- That bridge function would still need root (or critical level security holes) to be installed, if the ROM doesn't ship it.
  
  Makes sense, I'm so accustomed to making virtual machines and such that it becomes just a thing but inevitably at some point admin access was required to create the hypervisor, the vnic, a virtual switch, etc. Without that restriction a piece of malware could readily exfiltrate data past a local protection by just making it's own new pathway through on the fly or any number of other unpleasant things.
- if you want a non root solution, termux proot + termux-x11, or eventually termux proot + termux-gui + wayland compositor
- Works without root - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula
Does this mean I could install and run Blender on my phone???
- You can try
- you can already try that with chroot/proot, this just gives far better integration for input handling and stuff
So I could use this to run PostmarketOS inside Android?
- @lemmyreader @electricprism There is someone who managed to convert a proot-distro version of #alpine into a #pmos one. It's not as great as it may sound though.
  
  there are massive limitations to termux proot/chroot that don't apply here. proper touch support is one of them.
- Yes.
- Run hanna montana linux like a chad
If someone could build a preconfigured image that has Phosh and basic phone apps, I would consider using this full time.
- Would be even better if it can be registered as the default launcher too
  
  Could we uninstall almost all non system apps, make it autostart and prevent any other app from getting in the way?
this is the most useful thing android will ever do.

Once rooted.
So basically it's UserLAnd with accelerated graphics instead of VNC.
- Actually, no, this seems to work on a very different principle.
*is going to be.

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