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> Imagine having a Linux terminal right in your pocket, available on your Android device. I don't have to imagine, I've been able to do that for many years tha
by d3Xt3r 2y ago
> Imagine having a Linux terminal right in your pocket, available on your Android device.
I don't have to imagine, I've been able to do that for many years thanks to Termux, and many many years prior to that, thanks to root and chroot.
> containerized Linux environment
It's virtalised, not containerised. Containerised implies that you're running on top of the same base Linux kernel and providing isolation using features like namespaces and cgroups, which this isn't. This is basically a full-fledged Linux distro, which uses it's own kernel, running via a hypervisor (pKVM).
All the example use cases listed in the article can already be done via Termux, or even other apps (eg Terminus is great for SSH, and Servers Ultimate has a collection of server apps which is easy to configure and run).
So, at least as per what the author has written so far, there's no compelling reason to use this new Android 15 feature over other, well-established alternatives.