At the time of writing, your Android smartphone is almost certainly running a Linux kernel based on version 4 or above. The earliest ... the Linux kernel. What’s with this word “kernel”?

Android is the opposite: 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 ...

Android is the most popular of all Linux ... But, there's still another way to get insight on what's really the most popular Linux and that's Google Trends. With this, you can use Google's search ...

Google's new Android Linux Terminal app is now stable, allowing users to run Debian in a VM via a command-line interface. A Google employee clarified that the app's main purpose is to bring more ...

If you have a phone running Android 15 ... Open the Linux terminal app and make sure you install SSH (as described in the article above). Once you've done that, connect to the remote machine ...

Because of the rather long rollout of both Android and Linux app support ... but you’ll have to double-check the lists above. Why are Android apps not compatible with my Chromebook?

Google is developing official support for running Debian Linux on Android devices through a new Terminal app using AVF. Developers can code and test Android apps directly on phones and tablets ...

AVF, introduced in Android 13, lets your device create secure, isolated virtual machines that run a mini version of Android called Microdroid. These virtual machines can run code in a protected ...

The LTS (long-term support) period for the Linux kernel is being cut down. In 2017, the kernel jumped from two years of support to six. Now, six years later, it turns out that's a lot of work.

Realizing this, Google added Linux to the OS a while back. Now, it's doing the same for Android with a new, official way to run Linux apps and distros. According to some code changes spotted by ...

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t ...