(I suppose I must be blind) Where are the APKs?
From the Twitter thread, their github appears to be https://github.com/linux-on-droid. I don't see APKs in any of the repos, though.
Lindroid
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#12> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.
For a lot of handsets that don't have an unlocked bootloader this is literally not true, even if it does have working Linux drivers.
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#13(I suppose I must be blind) Where are the APKs?
I don't think they've released APKs yet from how the Twitter thread is worded.
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#14Video about the project from Volla Community Days: https://www.youtube.com/live/7vF5647gNbo?si=NC_QytRezsgDCQV5
Do you have a timestamp?
EDIT: https://youtu.be/7vF5647gNbo?t=14340 maybe
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#15> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.
Yeah great, although I am keen to see if this eventually will run on something like an Amazon Fire Stick or one of those old Androids in my drawer.
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#16I'm currently in the process of trying to see if Samsung DeX is able to replace my laptop. It is running directly on Termux, as opposed to using something like proot. So far it seems promising, and the biggest thing issue I have is that the Termux-X11 session essentially acts like a VM in that shortcuts are not seemless. I'd love to know how this compares to that. Or maybe there's a way to make that more seemless. E.…
I work a lot in Dex and VNC via vr glasses and the shortcuts are the biggest issue. That’s why I want full Linux; I would like a phone size device without a screen running Linux with unlocked bootloader and usb vo (otherwise it’s still worthless), but, while trivial hardware wise (there are plenty of boards), this formfactor is not there it seems. And the slightly bigger ones that are there, are made for a reason (usually gaming) so they don’t care about battery life. My android phone gets well over a day while powering my glasses and me working.
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#17> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.
Sure, but most people might need their phone to do banking apps or apps like WhatsApp, Spotify or Maps which are not available on your phone. This allows people to run GNU apps on their android phone so they can have both
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#18Is there somewhere where I can sign up to be emailed or otherwise notified when this is ready? I want to try it but from the lack of APKs or other introductory materials, it seems to not be ready.
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#19"needs root and patches to AOSP". So there go the banking apps mentioned elsewhere and you can just use postmarketOS.
Still cool though!
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#20Neat project, but hate the branding. Android is Linux. I think it's really important to recognize that. Linux is not just not the one traditional POSIX style system, it's a platform to build all sorts of systems, including Android.