[gagege]

I'm completely the opposite. I was always disappointed that Android can't run normal Linux apps.

[puetzk]

https://guardianproject.info/code/lildebi/

[NoGravitas]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=champion.gnuro...

[jakub_h]

I suspect that https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gnuroot.de... is the newer version?

[odinduty]

What do you mean by "normal Linux apps"? GTK+? Qt? Who'd want to use an application that is completely not optimised for a small touch screen?

[Pxtl]

A lot of Android tablets get keyboards and even mice plugged into them.

[jakub_h]

Well, I'm happy with running the basic stuff using GNURoot. (I have no intention of running more complicate GUI apps anyway, even though that should be possible as well.)

[Pxtl]

How well does the git client work with that? I've been wishing I could tinker from my phone but all the Android github apps don't actually pull repos.

[ashitlerferad]

GNURoot provides a chroot of Debian/Gentoo/Fedora etc so you can install whatever you want in there, including the git command-line client.

You can also create such a chroot manually:

https://wiki.debian.org/ChrootOnAndroid

Or go slightly further:

https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile#Articles