Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer, has posted a blog explaining the decision to excise Google's Android code from the kernel. Kroah-Hartman removed the code in December, noting that Android ...

Recently, Linux has been rising in desktop popularity in no small part to the work on WINE and Proton. But for some, the year ...

Android has always been Linux, but for years the Android project went its own way and its code wasn't merged back into the main Linux tree. Now, much sooner than Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder and ...

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 ...

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

The search giant is working to allow Rust code in the Linux kernel, a major technological and cultural shift after decades using only C. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

If Android were a car engine, and you popped the hood and poked around a bit, you'd find the label "Linux" etched on the engine block. The open-source operating system provides the starting point that ...

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.

The saying “how deep does the rabbit hole go” has never been more appropriate with regards to NSA speculation as everyday people seem to pull up something new. With the USA’s National Security Agency, ...

Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used a heavily-modified version with changes from OEMs, chip manufacturers like Qualcomm and MediaTek, and Google. There have been ...

There's a new method for rooting Android devices that's believed to work reliably on every version of the mobile operating system and a wide array of hardware. Individuals can use it to bypass ...