Here's how to access your Android phone's files from the new Linux Terminal -- "Android makes its downloads folder available to the Linux VM, but unfortunately other files aren’t available"

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Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/ecZcj

"Unleashing Linux on Android: A Developer’s Playground" by Cedric Ferry (March 20, 2025): https://sonique6784.medium.com/unleashing-linux-on-android-a-developers-playground-a269f91d689e , https://archive.is/uKrzR

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/ ("Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily -- "The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3"")

Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app), termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU, Alpine Linux, Fedora Linux, SystemRescue ("formerly known as SystemRescueCd"): https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1im8eue/fedora_linux_41_server_operating_system/mgrmzto/

From https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/mhx6oul/ via https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/ ("Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily -- "The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3"").

"enhance(main/libusb): Add integration with termux-usb -E #21620" by kyufie: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/pull/21620

See the vsftpd FTP server setup for the Alpine Linux (https://alpinelinux.org) server running under QEMU (https://www.qemu.org) in "Reading and writing a USB drive connected to a Linux server using Termux, termux-usb, usbredirect, and QEMU on a smartphone that is not rooted" by NoteAfterNote (published on May 19, 2024 and updated on May 29, 2024, NoteAfterNote-7): https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/7a197233de3d60ff1e23ca90ed2f595a via https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/7614b0137ac6959e3bba35df66eaa75a (NoteAfterNote, "Testing: Termux, vmtest, and QEMU", published on June 19, 2024 and updated on November 22, 2024, NoteAfterNote-10)

From https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote via https://github.com/NoteAfterNote .

CIFS Documents Provider, "CIFS Documents Provider is an Android app to provide access to shared online storage.": https://github.com/wa2c/cifs-documents-provider

Primitive FTPd, "FTP and SFTP server app for Android with external SD-card access.": https://github.com/wolpi/prim-ftpd

MiXplorer, "An Android file explorer": https://mixplorer.com , https://xdaforums.com/t/app-2-2-mixplorer-v6-x-released-fully-featured-file-manager.1523691/

Material Files, "An open source Material Design file manager, for Android 5.0+." -- FTP server included: https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files/ , https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles
"The privacy policy is completely inacceptable #386" by KOLANICH: https://github.com/zhanghai/MaterialFiles/issues/386

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"Network Interface Info" by Neal Ziring: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.personal

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Why have the mods not banned this poster yet? It's actually wild; he's been spamming for a solid 2 weeks now.

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Report shit either they get rid of it or the admins take control away from the pigshit stupid, lazy bastards.

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I hate the push to appify Linux. Windows is doing it too.

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Bad bot.

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throwaway16830261@reddit (OP)

Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/ecZcj

"Unleashing Linux on Android: A Developer’s Playground" by Cedric Ferry (March 20, 2025): https://sonique6784.medium.com/unleashing-linux-on-android-a-developers-playground-a269f91d689e , https://archive.is/uKrzR

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/ ("Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily -- "The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3"")

Termux (https://github.com/termux/termux-app), termux-usb, usbredirect, QEMU, Alpine Linux, Fedora Linux, SystemRescue ("formerly known as SystemRescueCd"): https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1im8eue/fedora_linux_41_server_operating_system/mgrmzto/

From https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/mhx6oul/ via https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jbv7ej/androids_linux_terminal_app_adds_tabs_so_you_can/ ("Android's Linux Terminal app adds tabs so you can multitask more easily -- "The Linux Terminal app, which runs Linux apps in a virtual machine, now has tabs in Android 16 Beta 3"").

"enhance(main/libusb): Add integration with termux-usb -E #21620" by kyufie: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/pull/21620