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The Termux app provides a pretty good fraction of the useful Linux stuff. It's basically a userspace chroot environment. You can run a lot of Linux distribution
by HPsquared 4y ago
The Termux app provides a pretty good fraction of the useful Linux stuff. It's basically a userspace chroot environment. You can run a lot of Linux distributions this way, though some of the features don't work. Can even have a desktop environment and run things like desktop Chromium. Or things like FTP servers, etc etc.
Basically you get most of the useful functionality from installing Linux, without needing root.
- imhoguy 4y agoI use Termux as my daily driver, but I never thought it can run desktop stuff. Still HW (Samsung) is locked down a bit as it doesn't allow autostart after power failure or can't power up without battery.
- alexisread 4y agoI have manjaro installed on my note 9 under termux, with vnc viewer to loopback to display x-windows stuff. With the Dex functionality I can plug in a mouse, keyboard and monitor to use it as a Linux desktop. It runs blender and gcc pretty well!
- themoonisachees 4y agoIs it really chroot? As far as I can tell termux is just a terminal emulator +shell, and if given proper permissions it can very well access regular root without doing anything special.
- HPsquared 4y agoIt's called PRoot, you can install other Linux distributions (e.g. Arch, Debian, etc.) within the virtual root environment. https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot