nix-on-droid VS termux-packages

Compare nix-on-droid vs termux-packages and see what are their differences.

nix-on-droid

Nix-enabled environment for your Android device. (by t184256)
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nix-on-droid

Posts with mentions or reviews of nix-on-droid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-29.

termux-packages

Posts with mentions or reviews of termux-packages. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-03.
  • Racket/rhombus: "We're now officially in the "integration" phase for Rhombus."
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2024
    No, but yes.

    https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packag...

    I just installed the package called `racket` from Termux's upstream, and it seems that they're using racket-minimal for that. But of a gotcha, but at least it doesn't seem like there's a bug.

  • Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2024
    containers/podman > [Feature]: Android support:

    > There are docker and containerd in termux-packages. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/root-p...

    But Android 13+ supports rootless pKVM VMs, which podman-machine should be able to run containers in; but only APK-installed binaries are blessed with the necessary extended filesystem attributes to exec on Android 4.4+ with SELinux in enforcing mode.

    - Android pKVM: https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization/architec... :

    > qemu + pKVM + podman-machine: https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717 :

    > The protected kernel-based virtual machine (pKVM) is built upon the Linux KVM hypervisor, which has been extended with the ability to restrict access to the payloads running in guest virtual machines marked ‘protected’ at the time of creation.

    > KVM/arm64 supports different execution modes depending on the availability of certain CPU features, namely, the Virtualization Host Extensions (VHE) (ARMv8.1 and later).

    - "Android 13 virtualization lets [Pixel >= 6] run Windows 11, Linux distributions" (2022)

  • Lindroid
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jun 2024
  • Psion 5mx Emulator
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 May 2024
    Not from PlayStore, but apparently everyone has English reading comprehension problems and wants to write a comment anyway.

    https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

  • Usbredir: A protocol for sending USB device traffic over a network connection
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2024
    usbredirect, USB drives/disks, Termux, termux-usb, QEMU, and Alpine Linux in action in April 2024 on an Android 11 phone that is not rooted --> Update-6, Update-7, Update-8, Update-9, Update-10 at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635

    "USB Network Redirection protocol description version 0.7 (19 May 2014)": https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/usbredir/-/blob/main/do... (gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/usbredir/-/blob/main/docs/usb-redirection-protocol.md)

    "How to use Spice "Open remote computing"" Hans de Goede "@ T-DOSE 2011, Eindhoven": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fC3GOTHOY (www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1fC3GOTHOY)

  • "Is it Worth Rooting your Phone in 2023?"
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
    Phone (not rooted) running Android 11 and Termux doing superuser/root operations on a USB flash drive connected to the phone, for example "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" --> Update-6 through Update-8 and "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-usb, usbredirect" at https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (see also Update-9, Update-10, Update-11).
  • Security of an encrypted partition in a flash drive
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Apr 2024
    Done on a phone that is not rooted running Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU --> "cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sda1" and "cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda1 v1" and "mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/v1" and "mount /dev/mapper/v1 /root/1" where "/dev/sda1" is a partition on a USB flash drive ("dev/sda") plugged in the phone: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635 (github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/19635'cryptsetup)
  • "Connecting a USB device to QEMU using termux, termux-USB, usbredirect"
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024
  • PinePhone review after a month of daily driving
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2024
    Yes. Even without enabling root, you can install Termux[1] and have a full Linux cli environment with ssh.

    > don't understand not more people want to access their DCIM folder via sshfs

    I agree. I sync my camera folder with Syncthing[1], so as soon as I take a photo it is available on my laptop.

    1: https://termux.dev/

  • Termux: Linux Applications on Android
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2023
    As usual don't forget that Android/Linux isn't GNU/Linux,

    https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...

    https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

    https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/master/an...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nix-on-droid and termux-packages you can also consider the following projects:

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

UserLAnd - Main UserLAnd Repository

tazapp-android - Android app for german daily newspaper "die tageszeitung" (taz)

Code-Server - VS Code in the browser

Taskbar - PC-style productivity for Android

xmrig - Monero (rx/0, rx/wow, rx/loki, defyx, rx/arq, rx/sfx, rx/keva, cn/0, cn/1, cn/2, cn/r, cn/fast, cn/half, cn/xao, cn/rto, cn/rwz, cn/zls, cn/double, cn/gpu, cn-lite/0, cn-lite/1, cn-heavy/0, cn-heavy/tube, cn-heavy/xhv, cn-pico, cn-pico/tlo, argon2/chukwa, argon2/wrkz, astrobwt) CPU/GPU miner

dvd - Download videos from anywhere

chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

nur-expressions

AllHackingTools - All-in-One Hacking Tools For Hackers! And more hacking tools! For termux.

system-packages

android-tools - Android tools built for Android devices.

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