Last year, at Linux Plumbers Conference 2018, Google announced its initial investigation into bringing the Android kernel closer to mainline Linux. This year it shared a bit more detail on its ...

Android is based on the Linux kernel because it’s a forked Linux-based operating system. When it comes to Android, Linux kernel development is split into three distinct stages.

This difference with “PC Linux” was reflected in the fact that Android code was removed from the kernel in 2010 (Linux 2.6.33), leaving the two to diverge somewhat.

Developers writing for Google's Android operating system could be creating apps that violate the Linux kernel's GPL licence, according to a report by law firm Brown Rudnick. The Android operating ...

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

Google Android has always been based on a version of the Linux kernel, but Google has made a number of changes over the years, and the Linux kernel 3.3 will incorporate some of those changes into ...

The Linux kernel has come so far that it can work with the latest and greatest hardware — from Apple. ... Other CPU architecture changes and additions in Linux 5.19.

The latest refresh of the Linux kernel, 3.3, is now available, and the second release of 2012 brings with it the long-awaited merging of code from Google's little side project. While that is ...