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Nestbox makes running Linux virtual machines easy on Google’s Pixel 6 or later smartphones

Android developer Danny Lin (also known as kdrag0n), has introduced a new app called Nestbox that makes it easy to run Linux virtual machines on Google’s latest Pixel phones. In a nutshell, this lets you run Linux tools and apps on an Android phone without the need to reboot. While this isn’t the first app […]

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Waydroid could bring Android apps to Windows before Microsoft does

Waydroid is an open source tool that installs an Android image in a container on Linux devices in order to let you run Android apps on Linux phones or PCs. But you know what else runs Linux these days? Windows PCs, thanks to Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). So Waydroid developer Erfan Abdi took […]

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Droplet Computing uncouples apps from the OS (So Windows apps run on Chrome OS or Android, for example)

There are plenty of popular applications that are available across multiple platforms: Microsoft Office runs on Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. And the open source LibreOffice runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows, But it’s generally up to the developers of those apps to decide what platforms they’ll support… because it takes work to compile software […]