Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

This is amazing, I've been playing a lot with nix and raspberries. But because they are expensive, just yesterday, I was wondering if I could use my old moto G as another board with nix. This is a step in that direction.

Re: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

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Post by AvImd » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 6:44 AM UTC

It seems F-droid version tries to download bootstrap-arm.zip from a folder which only contains bootstrap-aarch64.zip (https://nix-on-droid.unboiled.info/bootstrap-release-22.11)

Re: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

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Post by otabdeveloper4 » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 7:44 AM UTC

galacticaactual wrote: post #3

Why…

For a serious answer: nix-on-droid has roughly a thousand times(*) more packages available than termux.

(*) Not a scientific estimate.

Re: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

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Post by unstuck3958 » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 7:50 AM UTC

Seeing so many submissions related to Linux on Android makes me surprised that it wasn't common knowledge on HN.

Another such gem: userland.tech (let's you run full distros or apps on linux, including Debain and Arch). I use it to run LibreOffice on my Android Tablet.

Re: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

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Post by ryangibb » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 7:50 AM UTC

For full NixOS on an android device, something more like postmarketOS, see also https://mobile.nixos.org.

Re: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

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Post by tsvallender » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 8:12 AM UTC

ryangibb wrote: post #8

For full NixOS on an android device, something more like postmarketOS, see also https://mobile.nixos.org .

Do you know what the status of this is? I've been interested previously but notice the site hasn't been updated since 2021

Re: Nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device (termux-based)

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Post by heavyset_go » Sun, Apr 30, 2023, 8:23 AM UTC

unstuck3958 wrote: post #7

Seeing so many submissions related to Linux on Android makes me surprised that it wasn't common knowledge on HN. Another such gem: userland.tech (let's you run full distros or apps on linux, including Debain and Arch). I use it to run LibreOffice on my Android Tablet.

I tried searching the UserLand repo for how they implemented this, are they running native Linux apps in a GNU userland, possibly with namespaces/chroot, without virtualization? Does it do what Termux does and recompile binaries against the NDK?

I've watched projects like this come and go for like 12 years now, and I've always thought that it's an interesting problem with interesting solutions.