Google's Android operating system can trace its roots back to a rather humble newsgroup post by Linus Torvalds in 1991.

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

At its core, Android is just Linux. But Android provides a runtime and various other libraries that applications depend on, so you can’t just install Android apps on Linux and expect them to ...

Elevation of privilege flaws in Android Runtime (CVE-2025-48543) and Linux kernel (CVE-2025-38352) have been exploited in ...

Zac Powell, the lead developer of the Complete Linux Installer app, has launched an indiegogo project to turn Android devices into Linux desktop computers.

Fortunately, there's options for even the most anti-corporate shell jockey to connect Android and Linux over a local network. The "Linux" Way: SSHDroid One option is to synchronize from the Linux side ...

Many would argue that Android is a part of Linux. But despite the shared kernels, are these two operating systems really that closely related anymore?

A group of developers hope to unite several Linux-based mobile distributions with a common Android base that will make it easier for them to run on Android hardware. The developers are aiming to ...

Android is sort of Linux, right, or so the story went, so of course you must be able to run Linux on an Android phone and do all sorts of cool stuff with it.

In Canonical's latest move, the company purposes bringing its Ubuntu Linux desktop to high-end Android phones.

If you have an Android cell phone, you can install an app that allows you to connect to your Linux system and run commands in a terminal session.

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