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

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

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

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 ...

The Linux terminal comes to Android with the help of a simple, easy-to-use app called Termux. Here's how to install and use Termux to give your Android a taste of Linux.

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.

By now, you've probably heard that Google plans to migrate Chromebooks to Android, but I believe there's a much better option that's already proven itself.

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?

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