Google is looking to offer a native Terminal app for Android, possibly with Android 16. The Terminal app will allow installation of a Linux VM with full GUI and GPU acceleration along with other sysadmin features including disk resizing, port forwarding, and partition recovery. This is an extension of Google's earlier project of allowing Chrome OS to run on Android using the Android Virtualization Framework.
  • N3Cr0English
    140·
    2 days ago

    I’m still waiting for a fully GPU-rendered gnome desktop on my phone. … and an actually working port of libre office.

    • Baron Von JEnglish
      110·
      2 days ago

      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.

    • yonderEnglish
      20·
      1 day ago

      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.