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linuxdeploy
Java2013–2025
meefik / linuxdeploy

linuxdeploy

Install and run GNU/Linux on Android

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Install and run GNU/Linux on Android

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-02-22 17:48:15 UTC to 2025-10-10 00:04:22 UTC.

012013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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yebyen·Feb 22, 2013
I really liked Debian Kit, but I decided eventually that I preferred Linux Deploy from http://github.com/meefik/linuxdeploy A word of warning: if you try to use more than one of these on the same system, you can easily hose the work that you've already done! I really do not want a system that runs side-by-side, or chrooted, realistically I'm not so terribly concerned about SYSV IPC and what it brings (who doesn't love sqlite?), but I would like to know how to compile my own kernel and boot it without Dalvik or the Android userland stuff. That used to be the most important thing to feel good about using Linux to me. I would like to have GNU Userland and X11 desktop. I would like to do this without destroying my existing Android (separate partition?) but beggars can't always be choosers. Using OLife Prime, I once was able to alter my par
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tition table without understanding what I had done (is this what GPT is like?) and feeling very much like I had just started to install OpenBSD for the first time. I have a great working system in that partition, mmcblk0p8. I just don't have the foggiest idea how to boot to it directly. I think I would go back and start with oLIFE prime. I couldn't help but feeling like the trick to usurp the bootloader by overwriting the recovery tools was a hack. So now, when I want to boot into GNU/Linux, I've got to hold the down volume like I used to do to get into OpenRecovery? (When I tried the instructions to reverse this, hold down arrow to boot into Android, I just couldn't boot anything either way.) Can't I have all three of Android, TeamWin, AND GNU/Linux somehow? I will try it and submit something to HN next chance I get. Maybe there are more Transformer owners than I think. /rant>
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