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.

"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.

Or if Android or Linux are already installed on internal storage, Linuxium Bootloader gives you the option to boot or remove that operating system or save it to a microSD card.

Israeli security firm Perception Point disclosed a Linux and Android security vulnerability. The company described it as a zero--day "local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel ...

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.

The newest Linux kernel, version 3.3, includes code from Google's Android project. That should help both Android and other Linux-based projects.

Many would argue that Android is a part of Linux. But despite the shared kernels, are these two operating systems really that closely related anymore?

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.

How Linux gets to a phone: the mainline Linux LTS kernel (blue) gets forked by Google for the Android Common Kernel, then that gets forked by an SoC vendor for each chip, then that gets forked ...