For Android, Google grabs a Linux LTS kernel and changes it into the "Android Common" kernel. This can then go to an SoC vendor like Qualcomm, which modifies it to work on a particular SoC.

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 ...

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.

this time by trying to get Android phones to work with a generic Linux kernel rather than customized one. Despite the fast adoption of new OS versions, Android is increasingly fragmented, ...

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from ... approach is how the Linux kernel project and the Android ...

only minimal changes to the kernel, but a user-space wholly unlike that of any other Unix system. In fact, Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is ...

Google is stepping in to extend Android's LTS kernel support to six years for enhanced security. Previously, LTS kernels were being maintained for six years by Linux contributors, but now only get ...

You could argue that Google’s Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There’s only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart ...

Google has shared more details about how it aims to bring the Android kernel a lot closer to the mainline Linux kernel with the impending release of Android 12. The news came courtesy of a ...