ThothTerm • ThothDock

ThothTerm • ThothDock is an independent Android application. It provides a terminal, a Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) environment to work in under PRoot, and ThothDock, a Docker-compatible container engine for phones without root. There is no root, no virtual machine and no server somewhere else: the Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) environment runs on the phone itself, inside the app. The Debian side is ordinary Debian. apt and dpkg install from Debian's own archives (trixie, trixie-updates and trixie-security), sudo is Debian's sudo, and what you install stays installed across app updates, as does everything in your home directory. What you get * Debian 13 "trixie", arm64, set up on first launch * apt, dpkg and passwordless sudo for the user thoth * Several terminal windows at once, with a window list * Pinch-to-zoom and Zoom in / Zoom out / Reset * An extra keys row: Esc, Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Home, End and the arrows * Copy and paste, selection and scrollback * Correct display of Arabic and other right-to-left text * A welcome banner that shows the Debian release actually installed * ThothDock: the Docker command line, working on the phone, with no root * A Containers screen to start, stop, restart, read the logs of and delete containers * LAN Mode, to use the same Debian from a web browser on another computer ThothDock ThothDock is a Docker-compatible container engine written for unrooted Android. The unmodified Docker command line talks to it over a private socket that only this app can open, so docker pull, run, exec, logs, stop, volumes and -p port publishing work from the terminal. There is no dockerd, no containerd and no runc: containers run through the same PRoot that runs Debian. These containers are userspace environments, not a security boundary: there are no namespaces, no resource limits and no CPU or memory figures. A published port is a loopback listener that every app on the phone can reach, and UDP publishing is not supported. Containers stop when the app is closed. Images are downloaded only when you run docker pull or docker run, never in the background. Engine Guard stops apt from installing a real Docker engine over ThothDock; the Docker command line itself stays updatable. LAN Mode LAN Mode is off until you turn it on, and it is off again whenever the app restarts. It is in the menu, above Windows. While it is on, the app shows an address and a one-time PIN; a browser on the same Wi-Fi or Ethernet network must pair with that PIN before it gets anything. Every browser gets its own terminal, and the windows on the phone are never shared. It does not listen on mobile data or the Internet. Turning it off ends every browser's access. The connection is plain HTTP, which is not encrypted: use it only on networks you trust. First run The F-Droid build does not include Debian, so the first launch offers to download it: about 60 MB from the project's GitHub release. Nothing is downloaded until you agree. The download is checked against a size and a SHA-256 checksum written into the app, and refused if either differs. The archive holds only unmodified Debian packages; it is built reproducibly from Debian's archive by a script in the app's source, so anyone can rebuild it byte for byte. Requirements * A 64-bit ARM phone (arm64-v8a), Android 8.0 or newer * About 185 MB for Debian right after setup (measured on a phone), plus what apt's package lists and the software you install add ThothTerm • ThothDock is an independent application and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Debian Project. Debian is a registered trademark owned by Software in the Public Interest, Inc. ThothTerm is free software under the Apache License 2.0, a fork of TermOne Plus, which derives from Terminal Emulator for Android and the Android Open Source Project. The PRoot runtime is built from source during the build. Its licence and those of the Debian packages are listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.