Germux

Live USB

Your computer.
Power for your phone.

Boot the Germux system from a USB drive and use your computer to work on tools for Android. Your phone remains the place from which you control the work.

Download the installerConnection in 2.0

Prepare the drive

Installation and updates are separate steps.

First system installation

The installer writes a full image to the selected USB drive, overwriting its previous contents. A Linux installer and an image manifest are publicly available.

Available downloads →

Update tools only

Germux 2.0 adds a separate PC tools update without rewriting the image. It is implemented and awaits a full test with the phone, physical drive and a new server release.

Linux and Windows installers are tested separately from the Android app. The current public Linux installer belongs to the earlier project line.

Germux 2.0 · SSH

Find the PC. Approve the phone.

The new client uses encrypted SSH and remembers the approved pairing. The client is available in the 2.0 test APK. The new 2.0-pc5 PC tools are not published yet; testing of the complete setup is ongoing.

  1. Prepare initial pairing. Export the pairing file from Germux to USB alongside the current PC tools. This one-time step is still required.
  2. Boot the PC and use the same network. Discover the computer, select its ID and request a connection.
  3. Approve on the computer. A allows and remembers the phone; R rejects it. After rejection or the 120-second timeout, you can try again.

Commands in version 2.0

gxm network discover
gxm network set PC_ID
gxm network connect
gxm network pc-status

Replace PC_ID with the discovered computer’s identifier. Initial pairing details: gxm docs pc.

Remote command output appears on your phone. “SSH ready” on the PC means it is ready to accept a connection.

After a network interruption: file transfers support resuming. Returning to the same long-running task after losing SSH needs the next stage of job management.

Advanced

Inspect the image description.

The server provides a Live USB image manifest. Read it without downloading the entire system. Loading a manifest does not write to a USB drive.

Open the manifest inspection tool
Waiting for a manifest.