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How to Use Your Pixel's Hidden Linux Terminal (and Should You?)

The terminal is the most widely used piece of Linux software, and now it even ships as an option on any Pixel phone. You just have to know where to look. Yet once you find this command line prompt, ...
Android Authority

I activated the Linux terminal on my Pixel, and you should too

This means common commands and utilities usually beyond the reach of Android users can now be issued on the phone. The terminal supports installing packages, retrieving information on the phone, and ...
Hackaday

Send Images To Your Terminal With Rich Pixels

[darrenburns]’ Rich Pixels is a library for sending colorful images to a terminal. Give it an image, and it’ll dump it to your terminal in full color. While it also supports ASCII art, the cool part ...
Android Authority

Google’s Pixel 10 can now run Linux apps better than other Android phones

Google is adding GPU acceleration for graphical Linux apps to Android’s Terminal app, but the feature is currently exclusive to the Pixel 10. This feature relies on Gfxstream, a library that forwards ...