These are three words that the Android and Linux communities have been debating for years — is Android Linux, or just merely loosely related?

There are still ways to run Linux on Android. A handful of apps in the Google Play Store including Complete Linux Installer and Linux Deploy will walk you through the process of setting up a Linux ...

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 ...

Google is developing official support for running Debian Linux on Android devices through a new Terminal app using AVF. Developers can code and test Android apps directly on phones and tablets ...

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 necess… ...

The Android phone that you carry in your pocket is basically a small computer running Linux. So why is it so hard to get to a usable Linux environment on your phone? If you could run Linux, you ...

Although Android already has a sandboxed Linux terminal available, this Google model will be geared toward developers.

You can do a lot with the Linux terminal app for Android - if you don't mind using the command line. Here are five things to try first.

Less than a year after launch, Samsung has announced that they're discontinuing the Linux on DeX program, coinciding with the update to Android 10.

Android users rejoice! Linux kernel LTS releases are now good for 6 years Linux kernel lifecycle tripled to match the realities of hardware development.