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Android app that runs Linux distributions via proot — no root, no Termux required.

What it does

• Install and run Linux distributions on any Android device: the list offers Alpine, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu, and the custom-image card installs any OCI image, with Manjaro, openSUSE and Rocky Linux one tap away under Images (see Supported distributions)
• Native OCI container image support (docker.io/library/..., by tag or pinned as name[:tag]@sha256:<digest>): manifests and layers are checked against their digests, and the layer cache is verified before reuse
• Hard links in an image are stored once, the way proot’s link2symlink stores them, instead of as copies: a fresh Ubuntu container takes about 130 MB instead of 1.2 GB
• Downloads cope with slow and flaky networks: a stall timeout instead of a limit on the whole transfer, retries with a growing delay, a renewed registry token for long pulls, and archives that enter the cache only when complete
• Background sessions: a session keeps running after its screen closes, for example a long-running agent or server, under a specialUse foreground…