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testman@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Is this video a legitimate way to get Linux on LineageOS via Termux or is there a better recent method?3·2 months agoIt does work, I have been using it for a long time now in context of my interest of using a phone as a PC.
https://xdaforums.com/t/phone-as-a-pc.4633441/Thing is that with just termux, you get just the android/termux environment.
There is a way to get more familiar Linux environments running on your phone by using proot from within termux.
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot
For example, using that you can install ARM version of Manjaro, which is basically the same thing that you would run on Raspberry Pi.
But everything in there runs a bit slower, because Proot is some layer that takes up a bit of performance.
Benefit of that is that you can run some Linux software that is not found within Termux packages, but is available in the repositories of other distros. Libreoffice is one such example.
testman@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Is this video a legitimate way to get Linux on LineageOS via Termux or is there a better recent method?2·2 months agoLineageOS 22.2 (on FP4) does not seem to have that option yet.
At least, it is not listed in the developer options.
You can find it if you tap on the search button within developer options (or just general settings, as that also includes results from developer options) and type “terminal” or “linux”.
The(Experimental) Run Linux terminal on Android
result shows up.
But after you tap on that, you see that toggle is greyed out. Can’t be enabled.I am interested in getting that to work, so any help is appreciated.
There is hopefully some ADB command or something that forcefully enables Linux environment.
testman@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•New Free Tools to Track Corporate Misconduct Around the World2·2 months agoTitle reminds me of the thing that Lous Rossmann initiated:
https://wiki.rossmanngroup.com/wiki/Main_Pagewhich seems like it could be a subset of the thing in OP
StackOverflow says that it can be done by editing xrdp.ini:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/133343/how-do-i-set-up-xrdp-session-that-reuses-an-existing-session#360835Is there a specific reason for choosing RDP?
VNC is the most common protocol in Linux. And RustDesk is also a good, more advanced alternative.
While others already pointed out the similarity to persistent LiveUSB, I would argue that this also feels a bit like Android desktop modes, like Samsung Dex.
yes, valid point, thank you for the correction
As jet points out, QEMU for actual hardware virtualisation.
There is one relevant thing, which is not exactly in the same category, but does somewhat similar thing:
containers
most popular example being Docker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization_(computing)
containers don’t emulate whole hardware stack like virtual machines do, they just run the guest OS on top of host OS.
so because they don’t put resources towards emulating hardware, they are much more resource efficient.
so if your problem is “I’m running Fedora but I want to run something that for some reason runs just on Ubuntu”, then you could use containers for that.
containers are mostly used in headless environments (as in servers, no GUI), so running and displaying desktop Linux inside them is a bit tricky, but it can be done.
Lemmy is not like Reddit, you can edit the title even after the post was made.
Also, the latest release of Linux Mint is Xia:
https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mint#Release_history
testman@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company5·5 months agoTime to promote Loops all over the internet?
testman@lemmy.mlto linuxmemes@lemmy.world•I only need to activate LibreOffice Writer before you can use it.110·9 months agoAdd the “Activate Linux” watermark as well.
The one from https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux
testman@lemmy.mlto Europe@feddit.de•EU accuses Micrsoft of secretly collecting children's dataEnglish38·1 year agoSchools should be the first place where proprietary software should be replaced with FOSS.
Microsoft understands the “get them while they are young” method very well, understands that it is a very significant element of the cycle that keeps them in power, and therefore puts a lot of effort into making sure that this does not change.
So getting children to learn on FOSS and the concepts around it would result in very significant changes, especially in long-term.Is there any project or organisation that is already trying to achieve that?
If yes, then it would be good to spread the word about them around the internet.
doesn’t Steam Hardware Survey report way higher percentage of Linux users?
(Statista, Blackdown)
wouldn’t Valve’s numbers be more reliable?
testman@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•“I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s all been downhill from there” - Linus Torvalds861·1 year agoFunny how people tend to quote Linus Torvalds on technical issues in order to prove a point. I hear the guy barely made it through college.
Actually, I lied about even that. I was thrown out of fourth grade because I couldn’t write my own name, and it’s been all downhill from there. I had to lie about getting into college just so that I’d have better chances of making a career here at McDonalds - if you have a college degree (or you lied about having one), they don’t make you scrape the burger pans.
heh, he had good sense of humour already back in 1999
there is a bridge, but some parts of the fediverse got very mad about it
https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/
https://fed.brid.gy/
testman@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 202410·1 year agoProblem is that the whole concept of advertising is “telling other people what to do”.
- People use Google.
- Google tells people to use Chrome
- Chrome becomes most popular browser
- Chrome removes the " this site has RSS" icon from URL bar
- People forget that RSS is a thing
- People now rely on Google News and other biased sites to get information
- biased sites tell people what to do
RSS is freedom
go tell other people to use it
also Lemmy RSS community
testman@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 20244·1 year agoYour post is missing the most important information that you wanted to share
GotHub seems to display basic GitHub stuff decently well.
https://gh.whateveritworks.org/
I wonder how angry will the maintainers be in 2036:
aaaa, why do we have to support this ancient release, why did we promise 12 years of support
YUNOHost iso is basically just Debian, but the one-click-install for various self-hosted things is it’s primary purpose. All done through web interface.