proot vs termux-fedora

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proot		termux-fedora
	Project
6	Mentions	1
1,846	Stars	259
2.5%	Growth	-
2.0	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
C	Language	Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.

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

termux-fedora

Posts with mentions or reviews of termux-fedora. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-31.

Help how to fix nodejs segmentation fault under proot
4 projects | /r/termux | 31 Oct 2021

Finally, if you had read the sarchile wiki then you probably understand at proot-distro is dramatically sucks. termux-fedora and sarchile itself does not have such issues like that (yes, hello xeffyr, I hope you behave well here, deleting my comments or spamming on our project are an obvious declaration for a war to sustaination of FOSS communities).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proot and termux-fedora you can also consider the following projects:

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

proot - An chroot-like implementation using ptrace.

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

Arch-Zsh-Theme

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

sarchile - Quickly deploy archlinux on android without hassle

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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

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.