The app supports ROOTED as well as NOROOTED devices.
Use your mobile as a Pocket PC !!
For Root Method:
The application creates a disk image on a flash card, mounts it and installs an OS distribution. Applications of the new system are run in a chroot environment and working together with the Android platform. All changes made on the device are reversible, i.e. the application and components can be removed completely. Installation of a distribution is done by downloading files from official mirrors online over the internet. The application requires superuser rights (ROOT).Installing a new operating system takes about 15 minutes. The recommended minimum size of a disk image is 1024 MB (with LXDE), and without a GUI - 512 MB.
Noroot Method:
Install MOBICONSOLE addon and then install the linux on a non-rooted phone.
Features
- Install Linux on rooted as well as Nonrooted android devices.
- Use a built-in terminal to access your favorite shells.
- Easily connect to VNC sessions for a graphical experience.
- Supported distributions: Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Arch, Fedora, CentOS, Slackware, Docker, RootFS (tgz, tbz2, txz)
- Installation type: file, partition, RAM, directory
- Supported file systems: ext2, ext3, ext4
- Supported architectures: ARM, ARM64, x86, x86_64, emulation mode (ARM ~ x86)
- I/O interfaces: CLI, SSH, VNC, X server, framebuffer
- Management interfaces (CLI): Android terminal (or adb), telnet, web browser (web terminal)
- Desktop environment: XTerm, LXDE, Xfce, MATE, KDE, GNOME,other (manual configuration)
- Robust and offline Documentation.
- Built-in Help Center.
- Built-in Busybox installer.
- Added multiple Window manager .
- Offline Downloads.
- Automation Added.
Categories
Operating SystemsLicense
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)Follow Mobilinux - Linux for Android
User Reviews
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This is a masterpiece 👏 there are some limitations, as you would expect from a mobile app trying to emulate a linux env without root access, on phones that weren't designed to run it. Overall its really well done. Fast, full-featured, good-looking, and allows easy management of multiple installations. I use one filesystem as a "daily driver" for programming projects and create & destroy others as needed to help make scripts for installing/building third-party projects or to attempt to recreate problems when I'm acting as tech support.