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Want to run full desktop Linux apps on your Android phone? Now you can thanks to the Linux Terminal app. Here's how!
The new Linux Terminal app plays a big role in Google's future plans to turn Android into a desktop platform. Here's how.
The addition of Linux and KDE allows users to run more applications. Planet Computers highlights that devices that have been partitioned for dual-OS support can still receive over-the-air Android ...
"Without any strong backup, Linux is just a niche platform. Now with Google's support, Android has a better chance to win users from Microsoft," said Huang.
The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects.
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.
Desktop Linux failed to take off as Adobe anticipated, Android is exploding, Adobe wants to put its resources where it matters. I get that. I think it’s a bit short-sighted, but I get it.
Today Canonical is unveiling Ubuntu for Android. What is in the world is that? It's bringing the Ubuntu Linux desktop to to multi-core Android smartphones docked with a keyboard and monitor.
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.
When you hit your brake, you don’t want the action to be preempted by another process (like your radio). In 2009, Real-Time Linux was launched to build a real-time offering in the Linux ecosystem.
As of Feburary 2018, the Android common kernel (which OEMs make additional changes to) has over 32,000 insertions and over 1,500 deletions compared to mainline Linux 4.14.0.