It seems that many changes from Android made their way into version 3.3 of the Linux kernel. This may not sound like much, but it’s a great example of the power of open source.

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 ...

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects.

In the future, Google says that ChromeOS will use “portions of the Android stack, like the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks, as part of the foundation of ChromeOS.” Why? In a word ...

Meanwhile, Linux’s permissions-based security model is at the core of Android’s expansive app permissions system. The Linux kernel has proven to be incredibly flexible and powerful even 30 ...

Some parts of Android will be familiar, such as the Linux Kernel, OpenGL, and the SQL database. Others may be completely foreign, such as Android's idea of the application life cycle. You'll need ...

This specifically includes ChromeOS leveraging the Android Linux kernel and Android frameworks. ... Google already uses the Google Photos Android app to give Chromebook users access to Magic Editor.