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1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing

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1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing

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1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing

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1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration

liliputing.com /lindroid-is-an-android-app-that-lets-you-run-linux-in-a-container-with-support-for-hardware-acceleration/

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FYI: There's also AnLinux, Linux Deploy, Termux, tainer, UserLAnd, ...
Some of them aren't maintained anymore. And they don't necessarily have hardware-acceleration. But don't all require root and system patches.
- Termux works fine get it from F-droid only
  I'm not sure why you would need a GUI on a GUI phone
  
  Because many graphical apps don't run natively on Android. They do on Linux.
  eg. a full web browser, proper IDE or more powerful image manipulation program.
  
  I'm not sure why you would need a GUI on a GUI phone
  Because it's there.
Hmm... I wonder if I could run pihole in an onboard container and force all my local device traffic through it...
- I'm glad I wasn't the only one with this idea.
  
  You can probably already do this on Termux, since PiHole doesn't need graphical acceleration.
  Might have to create a proper Chroot though, dunno if their Proot tools would have enough privileges for this use case.
- You could use Termux for this. However, you won't be able to use containers. You would need to either build it from sources or run it in proot. I also think the DNS settings in Android are limited so you may have trouble getting it to work. You would need pihole to listen on a random available port and then somehow get android to send DNS to that port. So it probably wouldn't work.
  However, your welcome to try just make sure you use the F-droid version of Termux.

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