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One of the most hidden features, and perhaps the most useful one for turning your tablet into a proper tool for serious work — at least if you work in IT — is the Linux Terminal in Android 16. Still in beta, this terminal invokes a Debian virtual machine making use of the Android Virtualization Framework. The great advantage compared to Termux is that we are talking about a full Linux distribution, aarch64, running inside a virtual machine. Termux, on the other hand, is a Unix environment similar enough to Linux to run applications on top of Android with Bionic libc, not unlike what Cygwin does on Windows. Therefore, Termux will always have many compatibility issues, and far fewer packages than a real Linux distribution running on top of GNU libc and a standard Linux kernel. ...