This part of the merge between Chrome OS and Android and is intended to replace Cros
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Like the Nokia N900 did back in 2004 - except it was a real mobile OS (but fully yours)
Ah man sometimes I miss the keyboard on that thing haha.
Can't believe it's been 10 years since Ms-Dos mobile.
I am pretty sure it was possible even like 15 years ago through unofficial app on Google Play. What's new here?
I remember running some linux distro on my G1 wayy back in the day. Idk if it was debian, but it was a formative learning experience for me since it taught me what "chroot" was.
It's now official™
Samsung’s DEX had a downloadable Linux VM running nearly a decade ago.
And they killed it right?
Never even got to a production release. ☹️
I wish there was a way to side load it. Honestly Samsung really has let too many things slide. Ilafter this s23ultra does I'm not getting another Samsung
I got a second hand note10+ just for that feature, only to find out they deprecated Linux on DeX D:
Motorola had something similar too. Forgot the phone model, but it ran a modified version of ubuntu when you put it in a dock.
Wasn't it just running Android in desktop mode?
Lil Debbie works on Android phones for quite a few years now, devs didn't wait on google to chroot the hell out of android.
This doesn't sound like proper linux to me. I want to be able to plug in a USB (or what ever the storage device would be, microUSB for phones I guess) and boot from that. Where 1 image works for any device of the same architecture. This is the main thing I dislike about ARM currently.
Yeah, and I've never understood why that is. How come you have to build a custom hardware abstraction layer for each device separately on ARM chips?
Because it creates e-waste, and e-waste is immensely profitable.
How about multi-booting via Ventoy?
I don't think anybody expected that. This is just a shitty headline.
This is just a Linux VM just like th Crostini in ChromeOS, so I'd expect similar 40%+ performance loss compares to for example proot container through Termux running natively.
The only thing this could probably offer would be giving you better OS GUI Integration into Android, like Crostini on a ChromeOS device. But if that is needed you might as well just use an Android port or an Android equivalent of your Linux software anyway, it's not like you'd ever want to run Matlab, GIMP or OpenFOAM on your Android phone with its tiny screen anyway LMAO
Glad you're having fun
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