Google’s Linux Terminal app is the core interface for running Linux environments on Android. It spins up a virtual machine ...

Google has a much-needed fix to improve the performance of graphical Linux apps on Android. Here's what's changing and why it ...

Android's Linux terminal can use GPU acceleration (gfxstream) to render graphical Linux apps. Current renderer uses Lavapipe ...

You can now access most of your Android phone's files from the Linux Terminal app, starting in Android 16 QPR2.

Lindroid is a new open source app that lets you install a GNU/Linux distro on an Android device and run Linux applications with full support for your phone’s hardware. It does this by putting Linux ...

Android's new Canary update enables support for graphical Linux apps in the Linux terminal, making it more versatile. The update introduces a simple way to launch graphical apps through the Weston ...

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When Acer was ready to announce a new smartphone running Alibaba's Aliyun operating system, Google responded with force. If it were to be released, Google would end its partnership with Acer, which ...

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 work.

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 necessarily ...

Vancouver, British Columbia—During his question and answer session at the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds, founder of Linux, revealed that while mainstream Linux and its popular smartphone ...