TL;DR
- Google has added a tabbed interface to the Terminal app in Android 16 Beta 3.
- The Terminal app lets you run Linux apps in a virtual machine on your Android device.
- Adding tabs makes it easier to multitask, as you can issue commands without having to wait for a process to complete.
would you switch over from termux for this? for performance or something else?
It’s a debian VM, much better than messing with the android system. All I want now is bridged mode for the network adapters
It appears to be running behind NAT but it’s already have an easy port forwarding feature where I was able to connect to a server running on the VM by connecting to localhost in Termux.
Can you forward ports below 1024? I don’t get the notification when it’s these ports that require sudo.
I didn’t try because I assume I can’t. 😂 Cause that would require root on Android, or special capability.
E: Yeah it doesn’t seem to work.
I have sudo on the VM doens’t make sense to me that i would need root on the Host
For things that don’t work on Termux. The only advantage of Termux is that it starts way faster and it consumes significantly less resources. Other than that, the VM would be superior. So if I had to connect via SSH to a machine, I’d probably use Termux.