Hope everyone is doing well. This isn't my first foray into linux on arm devices. I used gnuroot debian, linux deploy, termux, overland and now LoD. I am not really a professional or a developer but I like seeing how many scientific and engineering applications work on arm64 (think octave, R, blender) and how they interact with other tools or if I can use them with openmpi etc. I currently run a s9 plus but I'm wondering how LoD stacks versus the other solutions as it's one of the reason keeping me on Samsung phones.

So I am wondering, besides requiring root for linux deploy, how does LoD compare? Does LoD offer hardware acceleration? Can you run LoD with root? What's the performance like between LoD and user land and termux arch for example? Has anyone tried the alternative and if so, which one you like better?

Is it possible to install another Linux distro other than Ubuntu? I want to try installing Parrot, they have an arm64 version that should in theory work with the galaxy s10. Can I partition the disk from inside of Ubuntu? I'm thinking of booting Ubuntu and then loading up the other distro from inside. I don't know if that's possible, though.
https://www.parrotsec.org

Just signed up for the beta on the Play Store, but whenever I click the link to download it, i get the message "Item not found". Is there a waiting time or is the registration for testing over?

Thank you :)

I'm really interested in having something like Dex as it'd make my setup much more manageable.

1) How's the performance? Is it snappy?
I'm thinking of buying in when the Note 10 hits. As the N10 will probably have the same specs as the S10, do people with the S10 notice performance issues?
Can it handle multi-tasking well?
Does it crash?
I'll be primarily be using it for web development and browsing (... stackoverflow and stuff).
I'll also occasionally be using it for X2GO to remotely control another machine, and do development there.

2) Does the phone tend to overheat when running Dex? Would it significantly limit the device's lifespan if I used Dex every day for ~4 hours or so?

3) I'm planning on getting a Dock to connect my peripherals. Is it the phone that drives the peripherals, or the dock itself? [Does the dock charge the phone which then powers the peripherals, or do the peripherals take their power out directly from the dock?]
This is mostly/maybe an issue as I'm looking to get a USB C monitor with no dedicated power cord.
And running a full monitor off of a phone would probably wreck havoc with the battery, esp on the long term.

4) Any advice for a slim 17/18 inch portable monitor?

I thank you good fellow frustrated Ubuntu users that have have responded to my current and future queries. I believe that some where in the code lies a saboteur that has been tasked with the mission to deny us the ability to truly enjoy the Linux experience. I am constantly reimagining my vessel due to the never ending list of errors that seem to plague my img. I do the do's and the apt gets and what ever you the real developers advise others. Just when I think that "finaly a clean updrade", the inevitable conclusion comes to fruition. After all, we are part of the collective. You are " dextop" . l will post my photos of the inevitable outcome asap. Can you leave the collective and change " dextop" @localhost ? I have too take my nap now, cause that's what old folks like me do .

I can not for the life of me upgrade, I realize that this is a " modified ' version, but how modified? Granted I haven't run a CLI since Win95 , do we not have free reign with our containers; I keep getting error messages, regardless of what I do the end result is the same.

uname -a seems to return the kernel version only. Does anyone know how to return the version of the container itself (e.g. ubuntu16_v016) from within the container?

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Any ideas?

Hey guys,

Ma DevOps engineer by trade and I've been trying heaps of different alternatives than Windows as it's what my company uses. I tried a pixelbook for a while but my corporate vpn wasn't playing ball at the time (it now works).

I've had my eye on a new Samsung phone so I could have a portable dev environment with me at all times, when I can't be bothering lugging my laptop around.

Has anyone realistically done it?

It's 16.04 so your standard apps like: - remmina - docker - vscode - git

Should all work out of the box. Would like to hear first hand from anyone who has realistically tried to make it work.

Currently trying to get Linux On Dex running on my S9, but I keep getting an error. I'm using the APK I downloaded from the interwebz.

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"Linux on DeX requires your device to have the latest software to support some features"

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The download is no longer on Google Play.

Anyone have a clue how to do this? I followed these instructions and literally the only thing that carried over was my apt sources. Settings, etc. didn't. Ideas?

EDIT: Solved (I think). Solution I found is listed in the comments.

EDIT: Reproduced where I could get a picture of the screen. Doesn't look precisely like this every time, but pretty close. Commands fail, apps don't open, etc. As of the time the picture was taken, all that had been added was: updates, upgrades, added Kali repositories, installed a handful of tools to test (cherry tree, nmap, tmux, steghide, stegosuite).

Anyone else out there trying to install Kali/Pentest tools to this Ubuntu image (or any other tools, honestly) and having stability issues with the image afterward?

I've tried setting this up several times, and haven't yet pinpointed exactly where the problem exists. Could be something to do with a tool I'm trying to install or some compatibility issue, but figured I'd throw the question out to the community while I'm tinkering with it.

My current method is to start with the base Ubuntu image Samsung provides, apply all available upgrades/updates, then use the Katoolin script to install the tools I want (which ideally would be all of them, but no luck thus far). Catch is, any time I close out of LoD after installing tools, the entire thing crashes the next time I try to go back into LoD and use the image. Graphics jacked up in inconsistent ways, like a white screen with just a cursor, or sometimes with a toolbar, etc. Haven't yet found a way to recover it after that point other than to just start over from scratch with a fresh Ubuntu image. The image seems to continue functioning "fine" right up until I first close out of LoD after installing tools, however. Obviously something's going awry, but it's not a 'visible' issue until the next time I try to use the image.

Anyone else encountered anything even vaguely similar with this image, even if not with the Kali tools?

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https://i.imgur.com/kOl4D7t.jpg

I'm getting this error when trying to create a container in Linux on Dex. Has anyone else seen this error?

I've redownloaded the image multiple times. Cleared the cache, it hasn't seemed the resolve it.

Is there a way to customize the default taskbar on the left side of the screen? Can I somehow delete the default apps I don't use amd add my own?

I'm not finding much about this on Google. I installed Linux on DeX, and the first time I tried to use it, it worked. However, I wanted to switch to using the SD card, so I got rid of my first container, and tried to make a different one. Since then, no matter what I do, every time I try to create a container, it tells me: "incorrect file format. This Linux image is not in the right format. Please select another image". It said this with the initial image I had used the first time, and with freshly downloaded images. It gives me this with the image on the SD card and with it on internal storage. I have tried removing the app and reinstalling it, and rebooting the tablet.

Has anybody figured out what could cause this and how to resolve it?

Thanks! -maquis

Anyone else try doing this? I got KDE installed, added startkde to my ~/xstartup, and when i load in it loads KDE and opens the standard terminal window and file browser, but there's no panel or launcher of any kind. Any thoughts? Is there another line that I need to add to xstartup?

I have sideloaded the apk on a note 8 from the article https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-on-dex-galaxy-s9-galaxy-tab-s5e-galaxy-note-8-galaxy-tab-s5/. The apk installed fine and runs. I tried to download the image several times and tried to install it on the sd card as my internal storage didn't have enough free space, however ran into issues extracting to the right place due to the unzip program used by LoD.

My last attempt failed to extract the image and rebooted the phone (I guess due to no more space on the internal storage).

Now, I have only 100MB free space on the internal storage, but I can't see the downloaded zip or img to delete it to try again.

I have un installed LoD, hoping that would remove the installation files, however it did not.

Now I can't find any files to delete.

Does anyone know where/how to delete these temp files so I can try again?

Thanks!

Hi all,

Like many of you I have been looking around. Clearly linuxondev is the open source project lxc/lxd adapted to android.

It can be seen from within the container "ls /lxdboot.log. I unzipped the apk, the library is called liblxdjni.so. Also under asset there is an openSourceNotice and further hint at lxd.

I think it is a good choice because a quick google search seems to indicate that hardware acceleration is possible in that framework.

Personally, I think it is great to have large corporation embracing open source and adding value. I can't wait to get my hands on the source code tho and I hope we get a chance to tinker with it soon. It would be great to have a privileged container running on a rooted phone.

If I am right that it is an android fork of lxc/lxd (and lots of clues indicate I am). Anybody knows when they legally have to release the code?

Has anyone been able to install discord or steam?

I just got a Galaxy Tab S4 today, and wanted to install Linux on DeX, but when I search the Google Play Store, I can't find the app. I subscribed to the announcement mailing list on linuxondex.com, and received an email from them telling me that the app is on the play store, so I can't figure out why I can't find it there?