The new Linux Terminal app plays a big role in Google's future plans to turn Android into a desktop platform. Here's how.

It's not a terminal emulator that lets you access Android's underlying native Linux environment. Instead, this is a special Debian VM, running on top of the built-in Android Virtualization Framework.

The Linux Terminal app now has a tabbed interface in Android 16 Beta 3. Here's what it looks like and how you can activate it yourself.

Sameer Samat, President of Google’s Android Ecosystem, confirmed in a recent interview that Chrome OS will no longer remain a stand‐alone operating system. Instead, future Chromebooks and tablets are ...

Google is working on a plan to allow Linux apps to run on Android devices, expanding the flexibility of the system. This is a big move, as until now, Linux app support has been limited to ...

That's changed now. Also: I've tested every Samsung Galaxy S25 model - and my favorite isn't the Ultra Today, Linux is only available on the latest Pixel devices running Android 15.

With Linux on a Chromebook, you get true multitasking, and that would be a real boon for Chromebook users. Yes, you can multitask on Chrome OS, but clearly, Google is ready to walk away from that ...

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… ...

There are two central operating systems when it comes to the typical e-reader: Android or Linux. The Amazon Kindle, Rakuten Kobo, Remarkable, Pocketbook, and Tolino e-readers employ Linux.

Developer Erfan Abdi says that Lindroid is sort of like a reverse Waydroid: that’s an open source application that allows you to run Android apps on Linux devices, helping bridge the app gap ...