But as of mid-January, 2021 most Linux distributions for smartphones are very much a work in progress. Some features may not work.

A ndroid is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice ...

There was a time a few years ago when the first Android phones made it to market, that they seemed full of promise as general purpose computers. Android is sort of Linux, right, or so the story ...

Developers hope to create a common Android base to fix Linux mobile fragmentation. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer April 27, 2017, 4:09 a.m. PT ...

Zac Powell, the lead developer of the Complete Linux Installer app which allows you to install Linux alongside Android on your smartphone or tablet, has launched a new indiegogo project to turn ...

This would hardly be the first attempt to build a Linux-powered phone. In fact, Android currently uses the Linux kernel, so there are billions of Linux phones in the wild at the moment.

The growth of linux-enabled smartphones can be attributed to the rise of Google’s Android mobile operating system with an estimated 60,000 smartphones shipping per day. That isn’t to say that ...

One of the things we spotted at the Mobile World Congress 2016 was a demo run by Intel of an Android phone running a Linux desktop when plugged into an external display. Chipzilla calls it the ...

Pine64 has announced that it is finally shipping the PinePhone, a smartphone that takes the rare step outside the Android/iOS duopoly and is designed to run mainline Linux distributions.

The Raspberry Pi was a fairly revolutionary computing device when it came on the scene around a decade ago. Enough processing power to run a full Linux desktop and plenty of GPIO meant almost certa… ...

For the year, Android and iOS combined for 87.6 percent of the 722.4 million smartphones shipped worldwide, up from 68.1 percent of the 494.5 million units shipped in 2011.