so, like ASL (Android Sybsystem for Linux) ? :-D that would be crazy.
18/f/California.
Jokes aside, this appears to be a full virtual machine rather than something like WSL that can interact with and manipulate the host OS. You probably won’t be able to do anything interesting with your Android files using it, just mess around in a sandboxed distro. So it’s still good for developers who want a portable Linux environment to run things in, but not nearly as useful as a properly integrated terminal would be.
WSL 2 is a full VM. And then there are some things microsoft are doing so you’re able to access the windows partitions.
Right, I should have specified isolated VM. WSL and Windows are interconnected (even if some things, like accessing Windows files within WSL2, are horribly slow). Google’s solution probably won’t have anything like that, given their reluctance to allow users access to Android’s underlying systems.
I guess the downloads, music… Folders will be available. Basically what an app can access, this should be able to access too
can we pronounce it like “asshole”
let me ask my wife :-D
imo it’s too good to be true.
I’m still waiting for a fully GPU-rendered gnome desktop on my phone. … and an actually working port of libre office.
Yeah if this isn’t a step on the path to "connect your phone to this [usb-c|thunderbolt|whatevs] dock and you get a full desktop OS, I’m not super interested.
Postmarketos is a project that already does that. You can run full fat gnome on a pixel 3a or oneplus 6, though phosh is more polished for daily use.
What’s the catch?
It will only run a special Google-made distro on a proprietary hypervisor.
Sounds a bit like the linux container in chromebooks. Looks like Google is planning to merge chrome os and android in future
Or start a new project to replace both.
Wasn’t fuchsia that project?
RIP fuchsia.
You will need to run a full Debian VM inside of Android
*full Ubuntu and you can only install via snap.
whaaaaaaaaaaaat, stop saying that. I have nightmares enough already
So will this replace Termux?
Maybe…? Depends how good this Google Terminal app will be. I guess
So that’s why google is killing termux.
How is Google killing termux?
By breaking the play store version often. It was not possible for author to update it for several years. Seems it got better recently, but still, to have a full fledged version of Termux, you need to install it from a different source - f-droid, ideally.
Side note for anyone reading, if you have an android please get f-droid, the google play store is an apocalyptic shithole and is 100% untrustable for finding safe functional apps, even very simple ones like a flashlight app or basic image gallery browser.
It is honestly apalling and I don’t know how any google employees working on android get home from work at the end of the day and feel ok about the impact on the world of the thing they are working on.
The play store is an atrocious, embarassing failure that actively makes the life of anybody who interacts with it worse.
Will it be powerful enough to kill Son Goku?
I wonder how this will effect the linux phone space (mobian, postmarketos, ubuntu touch). I hope it does not negatively impact progress by stealing attention away.
I’m pretty sure this won’t have much of an impact
