Is Android just Linux? This is one of those frustrating questions that seems like it should have a straightforward ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, even though you can install a Linux desktop on Android. Still, ...

Android's new Canary update enables support for graphical Linux apps in the Linux terminal, making it more versatile. The update introduces a simple way to launch graphical apps through the Weston ...

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google is updating the Android Linux kernel to 6.1.99 for all Tensor-powered Pixel devices, including the Pixel 6 series. Linux 6.1 was spotted as part of the Android 15 QPR 15 Beta 1 release, and ...

Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an entirely different beast. But the underlying structure — how the ...

Vancouver, British Columbia—During his question and answer session at the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, revealed that while mainstream Linux and its popular smartphone ...

Pine 64 is a single board computer that is more powerful than the $35 Raspberry Pi 3. I had backed the project on Kickstarter and received a 512MB version of the board that costs $15. But I liked the ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress report ...

Android has always been Linux, but for years the Android project went its own way and its code wasn't merged back into the main Linux tree. Now, much sooner than Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder and ...