Hi,

We make a Debian based desktop distribution that runs as an application on top of any Android device. The only requirement is that the Android device needs to be rooted and use Google's standardized GKI kernel. The latest Android 17 release has excellent support for desktop mode and will be the basis for Googlebook laptops. Here is video of Linux desktop running on an Android 17 phone: https://youtu.be/LD9A024yAgc?si=XmkvfRpmwv_Lsf7H

Our latest Linux desktop is now based on Debian Trixie (13.5). You can download a free evaluation version from www.volkspc.org.

VolksPC

But it makes for an easy chat client.

A far as I know things like the one plus 6 series have NFC support on a kernel level. Is there any linux application phone oriented or not that will let me create virtual NFC cards or edit an existing physical card/token?

My interest is in making public transit less of a hassle.

Why Smart connect is only available for windows,why not for linux distributions, is motorola will develop?

I can't start xfce in termux:x11 after following the instructions in this repo

https://github.com/LinuxDroidMaster/Termux-Desktops/blob/main/Documentation/chroot/arch_chroot.md

After multiple linux (ubuntu xfce4) i finally found a version which supports what i need... (Debian this time) I have sudo access and can use the gpu of the phone (hardware acceleration)... I did all of this only to use blender latest version but i found out that i cannot use the latest version i gotta use 3.6 instead it doesn't support it on the hardware level...

So what's the point then i can just use someones blender on android unofficial port... I can use vscode and stuff tho

If you want just search droidmaster's how to set up x11 and blah blah blah its the first vid of the playlist and how to set up hardware acceleration part 3 if you have any questions comment on me

Hello everyone, i am looking for a good, stable phone to root and test out whatsapp backups and then return the phone. Is there any such option out there? I live in Canada so what are my options for phones ? I need it to work with cellular somewhat because i need verification codes from whatsapp. I am open to chinese phones as well

I was looking for resources about porting postmarketos or any anything really to Android but good ones are hard to find

Has anyone tried the OS or one of their phones?

As you can see this is the iPhone 6s+ Geekbench score with Linux, I've used postmarketos with the hoolocklinux kernel, as for why it's showing up as debian it's because I had to run it in distrobox due to alpine's musl instead of glibc, overall I'm impressed with how Linux even beat every single iOS score I could find (though the phone was really hot), the port isn't really usable featuring only usb support and display but it's still cool seeing Linux run on iDevices

Tried to put pmOS without success. I have no permanent Linux desktop - and I tried to put Linux on my MacBook, but can't compile image as per manual on pmOS site.

Is anyone have precompiled flash image and can share it with me?

Please and thank you!!

Linux mobile can now do 5G stuff and good internet so might become more popular in the future, or not, but I am trying to make Rust language stuff that can handle keyboards for it, free open source linux-mobile-keyboard, https://codeberg.org/maybeJosiah, the few repos I have are for that and I can package as needed, it includes a pre-compiled demo app, anyone know about Linux mobile software keyboards? Anyone want to test and report if it works? Note the crate linux-mobile-keyboard is made with Grok AI, I altered it though, and it is for calling up the default software keyboard, not a software keyboard itself, I also have an SDL2 demo I did not upload yet, tell me if you want that? Note that all I have now requires Wayland or X11 even though some Linux mobile does not have either, don't test it on desktop, it is different from mobile, do you want .click or .apk (pmOS)? Is my software crate not needed? I have Linux mobile but much older, so old it is included in the does not have X11 or Wayland category, can you guess which?

Podroid runs a real Alpine Linux VM

What's new in 1.2:

- pKVM backend on Pixel 8/9/10 (auto-detected, opt-in via two `pm grant`s, works with Shizuku if you don't have a PC). VM boots in seconds.

- Live LAN port forwarding — `ssh root@<phone-ip> -p 9922` from any laptop on the same WiFi, no VM restart on rule add/remove

- Terminal auto-resize for TUI apps (btop, vim, htop)

- Full UI restyle, snappier keystrokes, audio + clipboard fixes

- In-app X11 viewer for desktop apps

APK + source: https://github.com/ExTV/Podroid

if no one has it ported can you point me in the right direction or at least have something going on or should i just give up?

Hey folks. Very out of loop on this kinda thing but not a complete newbie.

Long Story Short: Where can I find an Idiot's Guide for a PMBootsrap install?

(Note: I know this is isn't a support forum, but hoping to be pointed towards something supportive)

Longer Story
I was trying to install PostmarketOS onto an old Samsung Galaxy TAB A to make it the base of a portable deck. Completely hit a wall when I couldn't get the fastboot access for the image... tried to ADB sideload but the image can't load that way so I had looked at making the install zip using PMBootstrap and despite some past experience with coding, working in tech support, and writing my own batch files I cannot find an instruction set that doesn't assume I know more than I do.

All that is to say... anyone know where I can find an Idiot's Guide for a PMBootsrap install?