Once installed, FlyOS offers the potential to run Linux desktop apps like Wine via the device’s web browser.
CREDIT: DigitalPlat Foundation, FlyOS GitHub
DigitalPlat, FlyOS developer, proudly announces on its main page: “Imagine coding on your phone, connecting a keyboard and mouse, and effortlessly accessing your favourite tools like LibreOffice, VSCode, GIMP, Jupyter and more. It’s a complete Linux system that fits in your pocket!”
Although many of these activities can be achieved on Android via Termux and Linux Deploy, FlyOS is optimised for mobile devices. Users use the device’s web browser to interface with the containerised version of Linux. The developers draw comparisons between FlyOS and WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), which uses virtualisation to run a Linux kernel inside a lightweight utility virtual machine.
In order to install on Android, users must first unlock the bootloader and have rooted their device – via Magisk, for example. They can then install the FlyOS software on their PC (currently this is for Windows only) in order to connect the Android device and write the software to it.
Discover more about the project at https://github.com/EdwardLab/flyos/.