You can now try Linux on your Android mobile as if you were using a computer ‘Livec’, it's almost magical!

For some time, we have known the existence of a system called postmarkets which has become something like a rather punk alternative to Android, differentiating other options such as Harmony OS or Google Fuchsia in that it is based in100% on Linux allowing you to transport the most famous penguin experience in the industry directly on our smartphones, in addition to a promising support for updates for at least 10 years.

Not only that, and now thanks to a netboot recently published on Gitlab, you can also try the Linux experience on your mobiles without installing anything and without losing access to the original Android system, simply by starting postmarkets via a start -upLine which, as commented by liliputing colleagues, it can be reversed by disconnecting the USB cable and restarting the phone.

Promotional image of Postmarketos, produced by @calebcff.

The idea is that any user interested in Linux can try postmarkets on their Android smartphone without needing advanced technical knowledge and without losing the stability and functionality of their mobile, starting Linux in the same way as the classic liven or liveusb asWe use in our PCs.

Do not worry if all this seems Chinese, because we will now tell you how the live starter of postmarketos works and how you can use it, as well as where the trick is and what are its limits ...also have access to Gitlab!With all the information!

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So you can try Postmarketos on your mobile without installations or modifications

As we have said, this application will essentially make postmarkets distribution Linux amorçable on our mobiles as would a livert or Liveusb on a computer, although there is obviously an additional involvement or need that we should know.

In fact, the first fundamental thing is that the smartphone start -up charger is unlocked, because it is obvious that access to the start -up charger is strictly necessary when postmarkets start -up.In addition, you will always have to have the mobile connected to the PC via a USB cable.

And I explain the latter better, because you should know that a livert or Liveusb starts on our computers without writing anything on storage, using the RAM to load, something that had to be slightly modified on the mobile.In this case, the Linux nucleus will also work on the smartphone RAM but keeping the operating system files on the PC, to avoid both RAM overloads and the modification of the non -volatile memory of the smartphone.

This implies that the disconnection of the USB cable will interrupt the connection and conviviality of postmarketos by this test method.

Postmarketos, started with this "netboot" on a Xiaomi mobile.

As you may have already verified, it is obviously a way to test the operation of Linux on your smartphone before installing it definitively, although its use is obviously limited to the length of the USB cable whichserves as a umbilical cord with your PC.

Technically, the method would make it possible to load the whole system in the RAM as happens in computers, but since there are smartphones with limited RAM memory capacities, for the moment, it has only been decidedto make this hybrid option available to users.He will only load the core on the smartphone.

Reversing postmarkets starting is as simple as disconnecting the USB cable and restarting the mobile, you will therefore lose important information or the features to which you are used to your devices.It is almost magical, something revolutionary who, sooner or later, also had to reach mobile phones, now practically converted into pocket computers.

Now let's see who dares to try it ... Let us know in the comments, please!

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