Maru allows you to connect an Android phone to an external screen and run Linux applications on that screen. The developer, the project has now been made open source, which opens the way to more supported phones.
Technologies to run desktop applications on a smartphone are popular. Microsoft is attempting with Continuum for Windows and Canonical does the same with Convergence for Ubuntu. Earlier, there was a third party in this year. Maru is a special version of Android. With a single phone just looks like Android. But once you have an external display connected to your phone, you run a Linux desktop on the screen.
Other supported phones
The developer Maru has meanwhile decided to source the release system. Maru provisional supports only the Google Nexus 5, but since the source code is free, anyone can basically porting the operating system to other hardware. The first plans to do that already appeared in the maru-os-dev mailing list.
Marriage between Android and Debian
Maru makes the Linux side use Debian GNU / Linux, which runs on top of Android in an LXC container. If you connect a display with a USB / MHL cable to your phone, the Debian container starts and shows his desktop on the external display. You then have access to Linux applications such as Firefox, LibreOffice, GIMP and so on. Meanwhile, you can continue to make calls and perform other actions on your phone.
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