{"id":284494,"date":"2026-07-01T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/i-turned-my-old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:30:08","slug":"i-turned-my-old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/i-turned-my-old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/","title":{"rendered":"I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/\">I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/\">https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 11:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.howtogeek.com\">www.howtogeek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have an old phone lying around or like to experiment on your current devices, Termux is probably my favorite app. I decided to use an old Samsung phone, specifically my wife&#8217;s old Samsung phone, to build a pocket Linux server. My plan is to use the server as a home for my Syncthing drive that&#8217;s more convenient and portable for my purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Termux is certainly one of my most used apps\u2014I use it for hobbies, RSS, music, some video editing, home lab experiments, and to monitor my phone&#8217;s systems or test various functions. So I was excited to try yet another experiment for this awesome app.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t4 ways Python has turned my Android phone into the ultimate homelab companion<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I turned my Android phone into a homelab without buying anything new.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"preparing-the-old-phone-for-reassignment\">\n                        Preparing the old phone for reassignment<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"a-few-steps-to-take-before-getting-started\">\n            A few steps to take before getting started<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>         &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned my old Galaxy phone into a pocket Linux server with Termux https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/old-galaxy-phone-into-a-pocket-linux-server-with-termux\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.howtogeekimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/10\/an-android-phone-running-an-ssh-connection-to-a-dietpi-instance-in-the-linux-terminal.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-284494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284496,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284494\/revisions\/284496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}