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Android 16 will include a Terminal and full Linux VM support with GPU acceleration

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9mo ago

Android 16 will include a Terminal and full Linux VM support with GPU acceleration

www.notebookcheck.net /Android-16-will-include-a-Terminal-and-full-Linux-VM-support-with-GPU-acceleration.900394.0.html

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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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- You will need to run a full Debian VM inside of Android
  
  *full Ubuntu and you can only install via snap.
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

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