Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update

Re:Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update by atomi on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @10:43AM (#11159619)

Have you checked out Termux? I still use my Nexus 7 more than any other device because of Termux. I can ssh into my irssi machine, run youtube-dl, and even do some light dev using golang and vim.

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Re:Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update by gh02t on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @01:39PM (#11161157)

I love Termux, it works remarkably well and gives me real ssh. The app store ssh clients are OK, but I'd rather just use ssh on the command line. It doesn't do X11 AFAIK, but it works very smoothly with all the normal Unix utilities I use.

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Re:Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update by voltagex_ on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:33PM (#11161615)

Is it any better than VX ConnectBot?

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Re:Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update by hexchain on Friday February 26, 2016 @06:59AM (#11180959)

Unlike ConnectBot, Termux is not a terminal, it's a customized linux environment (think of a chroot without really changing root directory), which provides its own linker and libraries (so it's not advised to run android system tools in Termux, thus not a terminal).

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Re:Fedora on non-rooted Android phones – 2016 update by gh02t on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @06:18PM (#11163177)

I prefer it. ConnectBot is an SSH client, whereas Termux is something kind of like a chroot, though it's a bit different.

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