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Blaze@lemmy.zip to Linux@programming.dev · 7 months ago

Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

www.androidauthority.com

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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

www.androidauthority.com

Blaze@lemmy.zip to Linux@programming.dev · 7 months ago
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Google is developing a Terminal app for Android that'll let you run Linux apps. It'll download and run Debian in a VM for you.
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    Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it’s time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.

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      Desktop Linux has nearly no app security. So the VM approach is a malware prevention. Android is the most used OS in the world.

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    let me??? Termux has userland covered.

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      Not everyone wants to live in the terminal. I would argue most people don’t.

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        You are certainly welcome to run a stupid-graphics app that gives similar abilities.

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