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I have very sweet memories of installing an app called "Terminal IDE". At the time I had no idea how to install (or use) Linux so this was my first time The be
by PhilipRoman 4y ago
I have very sweet memories of installing an app called "Terminal IDE". At the time I had no idea how to install (or use) Linux so this was my first time
The best part was that the author had included a lovely help manual which briefly showed how to use command line tools, gdb, tmux, vim, irc, git, etc. but it was cryptic enough that I had to experiment a lot. And the environment was pretty constrained - BusyBox, a couple of pre-compiled tools but no package manager or X11.
This was my gateway into "real" programming, as opposed to typing things in an IDE.
But there is nothing phone-specific about this, if I had an easy way to try Linux on my computer, I would have preferred that. Obviously now WSL exists so it kind of fills that niche.
I think the app is no longer available and there are better alternatives, but I still have it on an 8 year old device.