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by assassinator42 442 days ago
Rumor is Samsung won't support Google's Linux Terminal (at least for their existing phones) since their Knox conflicts with the Android Virtualization Framework :-(.

Honestly I'd like to see Windows 11 running under this as well, but that seems incredibly unlikely.
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wiktor-k 442 days ago
It's interesting to hear because Samsung had a Linux feature previously: https://developer.samsung.com/sdp/blog/en/2017/10/18/samsung...
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pmontra 442 days ago
They had Linux on DeX in 2018, killed in 2019. It was a partnership with Canonical

https://9to5google.com/2018/11/09/samsung-linux-on-dex-andro...

It was the Ubuntu 16.04 desktop running in a LXD container. It crashed when the tablet went in out of memory, so I had to be careful with what I was running.

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caleb-allen 440 days ago
Maybe it's possible anyways? Qualcomm was able to integrate their own hypervisor on top of AVF

Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 | Adding Third-Party Hypervisor to Android Virtualization Framework

https://lpc.events/event/17/contributions/1447/attachments/1... https://youtu.be/hLdUCrlheKg

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