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aliases to be used with termux/linuxdeploy (android) (by pierro78)

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chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc without privilege/setup for Linux (by proot-me)

chroot-environment userland-exec rootfs Chroot C Linux syscalls Ptrace HacktoberFest

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a		proot
	Project
1	Mentions	6
3	Stars	1,846
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	2.0
about 3 years ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Shell	Language	C
-	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

a

Posts with mentions or reviews of a. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-30.

termux tripled the speed of this 12yo laptop
3 projects | /r/termux | 30 Mar 2021

here are my updated bash aliases to speed up the startup : https://github.com/pierro78/a/blob/master/a (there are also other files I ve modified in this github repo)

proot

Posts with mentions or reviews of proot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

Two debian distros, both Termux-X11 and VNC gives black screen on one, workd on the other
2 projects | /r/termux | 10 Dec 2023
Is there hope for Linux on smartphones
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2022

Since they mentioned proot, that won't require a rooted device, see: https://proot-me.github.io/
I was also able to get a decent Ubuntu distribution including a desktop environment running on a non-rooted device, even got Blender to render the popular BMW demo, though that took a while.
Dockie: manage unprivileged chroots like Docker in a few lines of POSIX shell
7 projects | /r/suckless | 2 Jan 2022

or wherever you want to install it and downloading latest PRoot
Jailed development
4 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2021

Install proot and proot-distro via SSH

What are some alternatives?

When comparing a and proot you can also consider the following projects:

x11-packages - A set of packages using X11 Windows System.

termux-wayland - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

ubuntu-in-termux - This is a script by which you can install Ubuntu in your termux application without a rooted device

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

termux-app - Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

termux-fedora - A script to install a Fedora chroot into Termux

manjaro-fs-arm64 - Manjaro rootfs with xfce4 and vncserver preinstalled. Just setup username, password and vnc password. Also one more edition with latest Anki preinstalled.

proot-distro - An utility for managing installations of the Linux distributions in Termux.

TermuxArch - Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/

lit - Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries.

AppImageKit - Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat