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I wonder how this will effect the linux phone space (mobian, postmarketos, ubuntu touch). I hope it does not negatively impact progress by stealing attention away.
so, like ASL (Android Sybsystem for Linux) ? :-D that would be crazy.
18/f/California.
Jokes aside, this appears to be a full virtual machine rather than something like WSL that can interact with and manipulate the host OS. You probably won’t be able to do anything interesting with your Android files using it, just mess around in a sandboxed distro. So it’s still good for developers who want a portable Linux environment to run things in, but not nearly as useful as a properly integrated terminal would be.
WSL 2 is a full VM. And then there are some things microsoft are doing so you’re able to access the windows partitions.
Right, I should have specified isolated VM. WSL and Windows are interconnected (even if some things, like accessing Windows files within WSL2, are horribly slow). Google’s solution probably won’t have anything like that, given their reluctance to allow users access to Android’s underlying systems.
I guess the downloads, music… Folders will be available. Basically what an app can access, this should be able to access too
can we pronounce it like “asshole”
let me ask my wife :-D
imo it’s too good to be true.
I’m still waiting for a fully GPU-rendered gnome desktop on my phone. … and an actually working port of libre office.
Postmarketos is a project that already does that. You can run full fat gnome on a pixel 3a or oneplus 6, though phosh is more polished for daily use.
Yeah if this isn’t a step on the path to "connect your phone to this [usb-c|thunderbolt|whatevs] dock and you get a full desktop OS, I’m not super interested.
So will this replace Termux?
So that’s why google is killing termux.
How is Google killing termux?
By breaking the play store version often. It was not possible for author to update it for several years. Seems it got better recently, but still, to have a full fledged version of Termux, you need to install it from a different source - f-droid, ideally.
Maybe…? Depends how good this Google Terminal app will be. I guess
What’s the catch?
It will only run a special Google-made distro on a proprietary hypervisor.
You will need to run a full Debian VM inside of Android
*full Ubuntu and you can only install via snap.
Sounds a bit like the linux container in chromebooks. Looks like Google is planning to merge chrome os and android in future
Or start a new project to replace both.
Wasn’t fuchsia that project?
RIP fuchsia.
Will it be powerful enough to kill Son Goku?
