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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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I'm currently messing around with Termux and trying to install Linux through AnLinux, Andronix and UserLAnd just for fun.
I have mixed success in AnLinux. I successfully installed and started Lubuntu but it was running pretty slowly. I wasn't able to replicate the install a while later. Also I totally failed to get ArchLinux running.
Now I'm trying Andronix. Wish me luck!
Do you have any experience running a Linux on your mobile?
I used to have various Linux setups on my Android phones. I experimented with different chroot setups and applications, settled on just generating my own chroot using debootstrap and mounting it with a script in the Terminal app. XServer XSDL for GUI. It worked, but it wasn't amazing.
These days I switched to proper Linux phone. Typing this on my PinePhonePro keyboard using postmarketOS. If you really want the best pocketable Linux experience you can get, this is by far the best. Might not be the best if you depend on Android apps, but my Android use case was mostly just browser and a few unimportant apps that have Linux alternatives.
Android uses Linux.
Before downvoting me consider that it’s factually true.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
I running GNU/Linux on my Phone natively. And I use Waydroid layer to run Android apps. So I kinda doing the opposite 😄
Termux by itself can be a good linux shell standin if you're used to working from a command line. I like using it for vim or emacs-nox more than I like any android text editor apps that I've tried. Plus, Midnight Commander is a top notch file manager.
Do you have something to link about? I want to know more
Just click on the app names in my post.
Androinix is the most stable one, until you try to update anything or do anything related to permissions
I used to do it on my tablet for a while trying to mess with building on Linux ARM, but it was never more than just playing around.
it's lovely when things work... now F-Droid is not working on my version of Android. I 'm using android 13 😭
I have Ubuntu running on andronix on my infinix note 12 g96. Ot runs really well. I use it for Libre office and vscode to do homework. There a few things that don't work tho. The patched version of vscode that andronix offers is ancient, a lot of extensions don't work. Your also limited to apps that are compatible with arm, I haven't been able to get box64 working, might try qemu for that some day
Andronix works (somehow).
I'm still running Xubuntu through LinuxDeploy. Have been doing that for years, and didn't want to change the app, so I hacked it a little to work fine with newer Ubuntu versions. It's going really good.
LinuxDeploy requires root and hasn't been updated in half a decade, but it's super stable and does everything I want. GUI runs through VNC, shell through Terminal Emulator. It's nice.