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AnLinux

Run a full Linux distro on your phone, no root

2.3k GitHub stars Apache-2.0 Tools

Made by EXALAB · free and open source

APK fileVersion v6.7710.9 MBupdated 26 days ago

This comes straight from AnLinux’s own GitHub page, and it’s free. Need help installing?

About this app

AnLinux sets up a real Linux system on an ordinary Android phone: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora, Kali, openSUSE, Alpine, Void and more. You pick a distribution, the app hands you a command to paste into Termux, and a script downloads the image and mounts it for you.

Nothing is rooted and nothing about your phone is modified. It uses PRoot, which runs the distribution inside a normal app sandbox. If you want more than a command line, AnLinux can also install a desktop such as Xfce, MATE, LXQt, LXDE or KDE and start a VNC server so you can open it in a VNC viewer.

Termux has to be installed separately or none of this works, and the images come down over the internet, so plan for a big first download. There's no audio support yet.

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