Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
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Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#2This has made my pixel c still very useful although its going to make the linux development story on chromebooks far more secure, before android apps you had to put your system into insecure developer mode. If you need GUI based linux apps then you still will need to either convert a windows machine to linux or run in insecure mode. While running a terminal on your phone might have limited usefulness running a terminal on an android tablet or chromebook with android support is very useful for development.
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#3I use this when teaching Linux. Let's people quickly get comfortable in a shell
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#4They should get nix working in there. That would be catastrophic!
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#5Been using this for quite a while now, awesome app. Solved all my needs for a decent SSH terminal, and even for running a pocket version of Emacs.
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#6I tried this out a little while ago and I was really impressed. It's worth mentioning that this isn't just a Debian chroot/container, the software is actually compiled to run natively on the Android NDK. It seems like they work around any limitations of Bionic compared to glibc by patching NDK headers and using support libraries.
Check out their "ports tree" to see what packages are available: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#7Been using this for quite a while now, awesome app. Solved all my needs for a decent SSH terminal, and even for running a pocket version of Emacs.
I tried this Emacs for org-mode. It was not that good experience. Very recently I found orgzly[0]. It might be interesting for you too.
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#8I installed this months ago and cant figure out how to access localhost through my browser. I wrote a sample flask app and ran it but cant access it outside of termux. Is there a way to do so?
Re: Termux: terminal emulator and Debian-style userland as an Android app
#9I tried this out a little while ago and I was really impressed. It's worth mentioning that this isn't just a Debian chroot/container, the software is actually compiled to run natively on the Android NDK. It seems like they work around any limitations of Bionic compared to glibc by patching NDK headers and using support libraries. Check out their "ports tree" to see what packages are available: https://github.com/term…
What exactly would you use it for? Not trying to be negative, I'm just not sure what would be worth typing out on a phone keyboard on the go, instead of waiting until I have access to an actual keyboard. I guess if you have a keyboard for your phone that's also different. (so for android tablets etc this is great)
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#10Neat! As a test I installed nano and python, then used pip to install flask, wrote a web application from nano and ran it from my phone... Opened it from my laptop and everything works like you'd expect.
Sometimes I forget that these devices are just little computers!
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I tried to get pyserial working (so my phone could talk to an arduino mini over USB) but hit the issue of not being able to access /dev for lack of root. Still, it's very cool.