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by _ea1k 700 days ago
To me it just sounds like you want Termux. It works pretty well for things like gcc, Python, or Perl.

For fun, I managed to get a full X environment running, including Intellij! The amazing thing was that it actually ran fairly decently on a Pixel 5, though it did tend to run out of memory with anything more than trivial projects.

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This looks like exactly what I wanted to find! Thank you.

I had been soured by the Android platform because I bought a brand new device, mostly because it had a physical keyboard, only to find out that it wouldn't get any new updates, nor could I use Skype on it, nor could I tether with it. Android was supposed to be the "open" platform, but at the time (which, admittedly, was something like ten or so years ago), it wasn't.

If I can use Termux to get a modern OpenSSH on to my device, it may get used yet! Thank you :)

You can indeed use SSH. As client OR server.