On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote: > chris wrote: > > I run termux on my phone so I can access my home Linux system's > > command line to read E-Mail, Usenet etc. My home system runs as an > > always on server and gets mail delivered to a traditional mail spool > > by Postfix and also runs 'leafnode' a small NNTP server. Thus I am > > totally independent of gmail or anything like that. > > > > I normally use my laptop to ssh to my home system to read E-Mail and > > Usenet, Termux on Android just gives me a smaller, lighter way to do > > the same if I don't have my laptop with me. > > How is that experience different than, say, using an ssh client (I use > JuiceSSH) to connect to your home system? (And I connect using mosh, > so the connection tends to stay up for days, if not weeks.) > It's just a much more complete 'Linux like' system to run from, I can run the same .profile, .bashrc etc. so it just feels very familiar. It even runs syncthng so I can synchronise files between my home system, the laptop and my Android phone. I have my address database synchronised across the systems and I can find addresses from the command line on the 'phone. Also I have a little collection of encrypted files which are synchronised so I can access them locally.
> (I think I was expecting you to describe using termux to navigate > the android filesystem, so you could use vile to edit config files and > ImageMagick to manipulate your photos.) > You can do very little like this, the phone isn't rooted and so Termux is in a pretty tight sandbox like other Android apps. -- Chris Green