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Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration (liliputing.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

it's actually not that far off a chroot, it uses LXC, the really cool thing thats going on is this wayland integration, I was waiting for termux-gui + wlroots to come along, but this might just land first

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

However, it also uses halium and libhybris. That means you can't just install your favourite distro and upstream tools. Everything that needs GPU acceleration needs to be patched for libhybris. For example, that means no upstream wlroots - and the latest patched version I think is 0.12 or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I havent looked into it yet, but ill be looking into doing an extra shim layer if this is the case. It wont be hard to set up some basic stuff for that, wlroots for instance is great for doing nested stuff since it can forward all of the inputs we need to the nested compositor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So how does it render to screen? Because the biggest nag on any of these previous implementations came when I needed to use VNC to remotely connect to the desktop...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

it uses a modified wayland compositor that hooks up directly to android surfaceview. Currently if you want a chroot/proot solution, I reccomend termux-x11. it's good performance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

A better alternative would be spice, but just a guess