Google is looking to offer a native Terminal app for Android, possibly with Android 16. The Terminal app will allow installation of a Linux VM with full GUI and GPU acceleration along with other sysadmin features including disk resizing, port forwarding, and partition recovery. This is an extension of Google's earlier project of allowing Chrome OS to run on Android using the Android Virtualization Framework.
What’s the catch?
It will only run a special Google-made distro on a proprietary hypervisor.
Sounds a bit like the linux container in chromebooks. Looks like Google is planning to merge chrome os and android in future
Or start a new project to replace both.
Wasn’t fuchsia that project?
RIP fuchsia.