Google has updated Android's Terminal app to let you run full graphical Linux programs. Here's why that's a big deal.

Crostini, Google’s umbrella term for building Linux applications into ChromeOS, installs a command line version of the Linux OS to run Debian Linux apps on supported Chromebooks. The built-in Crostini ...

Browsers you install using this method will run as they would on Linux, in full desktop mode and with all the associated features enabled. They’ll snap to the sides of the screen if needed, just ...

Run the following shell command to see what versions of Linux Crouton currently supports. Be sure to enter this command, and the others that follow, exactly. In Linux shell commands, spacing and ...

This Terminal app is part of the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) and contains a WebView that connects to a Linux virtual machine via a local IP address, allowing you to run Linux commands ...

The Linux distros are available from the Windows Store UWP app package (APPX), but they're an "exotic type of app" that, once installed, run as non-UWP command-line tools. That is, they run ...

And while developers can now run Linux command-line tools (sed, awk, grep, etc.) and Linux-first tools (Ruby, Git, Python, etc.), this feature is still in beta, so developers need to expect broken ...

Chromebooks with the right stuff inside now are able to install and run a complete Linux experience with the KDE desktop without giving up the Chrome OS on the same device. It is not yet flawless, but ...