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LinuxDeploy is an application that allows the installation of Linux distributions on an Android device. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] However, the Android device has to be rooted first before being able to install this application.
There are many apps in Android that can run or emulate other operating systems, via utilizing hardware support for platform virtualization technologies, or via terminal emulation. Some of these apps support having more than one emulation/virtual file system for different OS profiles, thus the ability to have or run multiple OS's.
Mobile Linux is a relatively recent addition to the Linux range of use, with Google's Android operating system pioneering the concept. While UBPorts tried to follow suit with Ubuntu Touch , a wider development of free Linux operating systems specifically for mobile devices was only really spurred in the latter 2010s, when various smaller ...
Android phones, like this Nexus S running Replicant, allow installation of apps from the Play Store, F-Droid store or directly via APK files. This is a list of notable applications ( apps ) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software .
Anbox (short for “Android in a Box”) is a free and open-source compatibility layer that allows Android applications to run on Linux distributions [2] by using containerization techniques. Originally introduced by Canonical, Anbox executes Android applications in a lightweight system container, isolated from the host system for security and ...
The TurnKey Linux Virtual Appliance Library is a free open-source software project which develops a range of Debian-based pre-packaged server software appliances (also called virtual appliances). Turnkey appliances can be deployed as a virtual machine (a range of hypervisors are supported), in cloud computing services such as Amazon Web ...
free — Display the total, free and used amount of physical memory and swap space. freeramdisk — Free all memory allocated to specified ramdisk. fsfreeze — Freeze or unfreeze a filesystem. fstype — Print type of filesystem on a block device or image. fsync — Synchronize a file's in-core state with storage device.
Android x86 (ver. 4.0) on EeePC 701 4G. Android-x86 is an open source project that makes an unofficial porting of the Android mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance to run on devices powered by x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.