termux-packages VS UserLAnd

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.

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)

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...

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)

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).

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)

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/

UserLAnd

https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd/issues/591 might help?

Actually, you know what, fuck it you're right that's way too many steps I'm just gonna use UserLAnd.

UserLAnd is like a virtual machine app that can run Linux OSes, but can also run specific single apps. And unlike Termux it's a "real" Linux install, so troubleshooting and code from online usually just work. Uses scoped storage of Android 10 unfortunately, but I could still use rsync from the terminal to edit code outside of the scoped UserLAnd application storage and keep the inside updated (on my current device running Android 10). I think they updated to the new 11+ storage standards internally, but it's likely still screwed up on 10 anyways.

To see more about Userland: https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd

Like: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.ula https://github.com/CypherpunkArmory/UserLAnd

don't test me again

UserLAnd (version 2.8.3): Easiest way to run GNU/Linux Distros on Android - no root required