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[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

so, like ASL (Android Sybsystem for Linux) ? :-D that would be crazy.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 36 points 9 months ago (1 children)

18/f/California.

Jokes aside, this appears to be a full virtual machine rather than something like WSL that can interact with and manipulate the host OS. You probably won't be able to do anything interesting with your Android files using it, just mess around in a sandboxed distro. So it's still good for developers who want a portable Linux environment to run things in, but not nearly as useful as a properly integrated terminal would be.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

WSL 2 is a full VM. And then there are some things microsoft are doing so you're able to access the windows partitions.

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Right, I should have specified isolated VM. WSL and Windows are interconnected (even if some things, like accessing Windows files within WSL2, are horribly slow). Google's solution probably won't have anything like that, given their reluctance to allow users access to Android's underlying systems.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I guess the downloads, music... Folders will be available. Basically what an app can access, this should be able to access too

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

can we pronounce it like "asshole"

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 months ago

let me ask my wife :-D

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 27 points 9 months ago

imo it's too good to be true.

[–] n3cr0@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm still waiting for a fully GPU-rendered gnome desktop on my phone. ... and an actually working port of libre office.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Yeah if this isn't a step on the path to "connect your phone to this [usb-c|thunderbolt|whatevs] dock and you get a full desktop OS, I'm not super interested.

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Postmarketos is a project that already does that. You can run full fat gnome on a pixel 3a or oneplus 6, though phosh is more polished for daily use.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So will this replace Termux?

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 9 months ago

Maybe..? Depends how good this Google Terminal app will be. I guess

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So that's why google is killing termux.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It will only run a special Google-made distro on a proprietary hypervisor.

[–] cron@feddit.org 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds a bit like the linux container in chromebooks. Looks like Google is planning to merge chrome os and android in future

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or start a new project to replace both.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't fuchsia that project?

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

RIP fuchsia.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You will need to run a full Debian VM inside of Android

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

*full Ubuntu and you can only install via snap.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 9 months ago

whaaaaaaaaaaaat, stop saying that. I have nightmares enough already

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how this will effect the linux phone space (mobian, postmarketos, ubuntu touch). I hope it does not negatively impact progress by stealing attention away.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure this won't have much of an impact

[–] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 2 points 9 months ago

Will it be powerful enough to kill Son Goku?