Your phone is more capable than Android lets on.

Here’s a quick guide on how to access files from your Android device while using the new Linux Terminal app. The Terminal app connects to an isolated instance of Debian running in a virtual machine, ...

Canonical has launched a new Android app that lets Ubuntu One users stream music from the cloud to an Android device. The Ubuntu One service lets you upload files from an Ubuntu Linux computer to the ...

Canonical is making good on its promise to bring its popular Ubuntu flavor of Linux to a broader range of devices by announcing Ubuntu for Android, a release that will enable a full desktop computing ...

Many free software fans, if they were like me, breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Android operating system hit the market. Before receiving my first smartphone (a Samsung Blackjack running ...

Android has long been focused on running mobile apps, but in recent years, features aimed at developers and power users have begun pushing its boundaries. One exciting frontier: running full Linux ...

Canonical—the company responsible for the Ubuntu Linux distro— announced today a fully functioning build of Ubuntu for Android devices. The Ubuntu Unity build will boot after the phone is docked to a ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...