Google recently added an experimental Linux terminal app to Android that installs Debian in a virtual machine and lets you run command-line apps. But if you’re running the latest canary builds of ...

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an entirely different beast. But the underlying structure — how the ...

Want to install and run your favorite Android apps smoothly on your Linux desktop? Give Waydroid a try! Waydroid uses a container-based architecture that lets you run Android applications with ...

Attackers can exploit two newly discovered local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities to gain root privileges on systems running major Linux distributions. The first flaw (tracked as ...

Google has recently clarified the purpose of its new Linux Terminal app for Android, dispelling some of the speculation surrounding its release. While the ability to run a full Linux distribution on a ...

A Google engineer has confirmed why the new Terminal app on Android exists and what's it for. With Terminal, Google wants to bring more Linux apps and tools to Android, not another desktop environment ...

Hidden away among the hullabaloo of Google's March Pixel feature drop lies a feature many enthusiasts and developers have asked for years—the Linux Terminal app. This Debian-based Linux environment is ...

Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it ...

The Android Linux Terminal app is now widely available for Pixel users running the March 2025 update. The Debian-based environment allows users to carry a fully fledged Linux instance with them, ...

AYN has partially opened the bootloader for its Odin2 devices to Linux distributions. Batocera and ROCKNIX are already working on optimizations for the popular line of handhelds. Linux support unlocks ...