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

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

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration
Brad Linder (Liliputing)
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boredsquirrel
boredsquirrel
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TLDR: Easy installation of something like Termux, GUI, Kwin and KDE, and a graphical display.

This is really good!

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lily33
lily33
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Not really. It seems to use a very different technology from termux.
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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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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
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lily33
lily33
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However, it also uses halium and libhybris. That means you can't just install your favourite distro and upstream tools. Everything that needs GPU acceleration needs to be patched for libhybris. For example, that means no upstream wlroots - and the latest patched version I think is 0.12 or so.
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drwankingstein
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I havent looked into it yet, but ill be looking into doing an extra shim layer if this is the case. It wont be hard to set up some basic stuff for that, wlroots for instance is great for doing nested stuff since it can forward all of the inputs we need to the nested compositor
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iturnedintoanewt
iturnedintoanewt
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So how does it render to screen? Because the biggest nag on any of these previous implementations came when I needed to use VNC to remotely connect to the desktop...
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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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it uses a modified wayland compositor that hooks up directly to android surfaceview. Currently if you want a chroot/proot solution, I reccomend termux-x11. it's good performance.
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trevor
trevor
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If someone could build a preconfigured image that has Phosh and basic phone apps, I would consider using this full time.
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Hector
Hector
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Would be even better if it can be registered as the default launcher too
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nossaquesapao
nossaquesapao
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Could we uninstall almost all non system apps, make it autostart and prevent any other app from getting in the way?
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Monkey With A Shell
Monkey With A Shell
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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.

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MonkderDritte
MonkderDritte
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That bridge function would still need root (or critical level security holes) to be installed, if the ROM doesn't ship it.
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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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if you want a non root solution, termux proot + termux-x11, or eventually termux proot + termux-gui + wayland compositor
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ExtremeDullard
ExtremeDullard
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So basically it's UserLAnd with accelerated graphics instead of VNC.

UserLAnd | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Easiest way to run GNU/Linux Distros on Android - no root required
f-droid.org
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lily33
lily33
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Actually, no, this seems to work on a very different principle.
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electricprism
electricprism
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So I could use this to run PostmarketOS inside Android?
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eshep
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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.
#Alpine #pmos

Linux reshared this.

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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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there are massive limitations to termux proot/chroot that don't apply here. proper touch support is one of them.
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xavier666
xavier666
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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.
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jol
jol
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We definitely living in a simulation.
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laughterlaughter
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Not that I don't disagree with you, but how did you come down to this conclusion?
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jol
jol
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We're so many levels of abstraction and emulation deep, that the natural conclusion is that there's no reason to believe we're at the top of the abstraction, but somewhere in the middle.
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laughterlaughter
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I understood that. But I don't see how you came down to this conclusion simply because someone put Linux inside Linux.

When you put matryoshka russian dolls one inside the other, do you also think "man, we live in a simulation"?

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smileyhead
smileyhead
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You can call it GNU/Linux if the same name for OS and kernel turns out to be confusing for you.
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cafuneandchill
cafuneandchill
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You could emulate Android on Linux before, now you can also emulate Linux on Android

The circle of libe is compleet

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eshep
eshep
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PostmarketOS in chroot in termux in waydroid on PostmarketOS 🤘

Linux reshared this.

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critical
critical
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Now the only question is: How deep can you go?
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EddoWagt
EddoWagt
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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

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Joe Cool
Joe Cool
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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.
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TheFonz
TheFonz
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Does this mean I could install and run Blender on my phone???
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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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you can already try that with chroot/proot, this just gives far better integration for input handling and stuff
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InnerScientist
InnerScientist
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You need a phone, tablet, or other device that’s been rooted.


Damit

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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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look into proot+termux-x11 if you don't have a rooted device, it's still very good.
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Joe Cool
Joe Cool
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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.

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drwankingstein
drwankingstein
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Yup, I used it all the time with samsung dex, works great
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KillingTimeItself
KillingTimeItself
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Rule of thumb for android users, all of the interesting shit is shit you can't do unless you're rooted.
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GlenTheFrog
GlenTheFrog
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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
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KillingTimeItself
KillingTimeItself
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yeah, linux has me spoiled, just being able to do whatever i want as i please is truly a modern art.

Android made me realize how incredible linux was by being so utterly painful.

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KillingTimeItself
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this is the most useful thing android will ever do.

Once rooted.

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