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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).

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You could emulate Android on Linux before, now you can also emulate Linux on Android

The circle of libe is compleet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

well it's not really emulation, if you are familiar with LXC it's that, it's pretty much a super chroot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Technically true, but it's easier to refer to it as emulation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Oh I like that one. Yoink! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

@lemmyreader @cafuneandchill PostmarketOS in chroot in termux in waydroid on PostmarketOS 🤘