Google’s Android, the increasingly important embedded Linux, had one major problem: it had been moving slowly away from the Linux mainstream. Now, after the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration ...

Smartphones are basically pocket-sized computers running mobile-friendly operating systems. And folks who want to run a free and open source GNU/Linux distribution on their phones get the advantages ...

Another month, another large-scale Android vulnerability. A massive 80 percent of Android users have been left open to hacks that could result in hackers being able to gather information such as ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

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On Monday this week, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman removed the drivers for Android from the Linux kernel’s staging tree, thus insuring that–for now–Android is not headed for the mainstream Linux ...

We've seen efforts to bring Android to BlackBerry 10 phones, but a developer is now building a BlackBerry 10 successor for ...

Google and Apple have come to dominate the smartphone space in recent years, but there are a small (but growing) number of phones that ship with GNU/Linux-based operating systems instead. But as of ...

Amazon has explained why it moved to a new Vega OS for its Fire TV Stick 4K Select, moving away from the traditional ...

For an OS to wrestle market share from Microsoft's Windows, it will need two things: the OS-maker's support and low licensing fees. This rings true even on the netbook front--a relatively new PC ...

While Android Auto is much more widely adopted these days, mostly because it’s cheaper to install than other systems and a substantial number of drivers use an Android device, Google’s big bet for the ...