The new Linux Terminal app plays a big role in Google's future plans to turn Android into a desktop platform. Here's how.

Want to run full desktop Linux apps on your Android phone? Now you can thanks to the Linux Terminal app. Here's how!

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Android’s Linux Terminal app bootstraps a Debian-based virtual machine on your device. In simpler terms, it creates a machine-within-a-machine that reliably simulates a computer running the ...

The Linux kernel has turned 34 years old today. On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds posted to a newsgroup on Usenet that he ...

Although Android already has a sandboxed Linux terminal available, this Google model will be geared toward developers. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer Aug. 7, 2025 at 6:45 p.m. PT ...

The Android phone that you carry in your pocket is basically a small computer running Linux. So why is it so hard to get to a usable Linux environment on your phone? If you could run Linux, you cou… ...

[Adam Outler] shows us how to expand the Linux tools available on Android without rooting the device. He does this by installing BusyBox. The binary is copied to the device using the Android Develo… ...