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TheLegendaryMan 11 months ago
Kind of like the protective barrier that it provides. The Nix-On-Droid has a shit ton of apps available though. Plus being able to virtualize many other linux distros with AnLinux is nice too. I think it will be interesting to see what the differences in native performance will be. I wonder what level of access we can expect to have? Will this finally give us root out of the box?
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Ryan ryan@spatia-arcana.com 11 months ago
It's a VM with it's own kernel, running Debian. From what I can see it has no access to Android, that's the point of a VM. It ties into Google's push to replace ChromeOS with Android. This is a feature ChromeOS already has.
Set up Linux on your Chromebook - Chromebook Help
Linux is a feature that lets you develop software using your Chromebook. You can install Linux command line tools, code editors, and IDEs (integrat...
 I've used termux for a long time, it's a great tool. Any of the proot tools I have always found to be extremely flaky and not worth the bother.
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