The Linux Terminal app now has a tabbed interface in Android 16 Beta 3. Here's what it looks like and how you can activate it yourself.

TL;DR

  • Google has added a tabbed interface to the Terminal app in Android 16 Beta 3.
  • The Terminal app lets you run Linux apps in a virtual machine on your Android device.
  • Adding tabs makes it easier to multitask, as you can issue commands without having to wait for a process to complete.
  • TheEighthDoctorEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Can you forward ports below 1024? I don’t get the notification when it’s these ports that require sudo.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I didn’t try because I assume I can’t. 😂 Cause that would require root on Android, or special capability.

      E: Yeah it doesn’t seem to work.

      • TheEighthDoctorEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I have sudo on the VM doens’t make sense to me that i would need root on the Host

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 hour ago

          Right but think about it. Any ports open on the host are opened by processes running on the host. If a process on the host wants to open 443, the host OS would ask for root. Now think about the VM from the point of view of the host. It’s just another running process. If it tries to open 443 - it’s gotta have root or it will fail. It doesn’t matter what permissions the process inside the VM has. In fact the host doesn’t even know about that process. To the host, the VM process wants to open protected port.