These are three words that the Android and Linux communities have been debating for years — is Android Linux, or just merely loosely related?

Google introduces Debian Linux terminal app for Android. My phone's a laptop at last!

Although Android already has a sandboxed Linux terminal available, this Google model will be geared toward developers.

Meanwhile, Linux’s permissions-based security model is at the core of Android’s expansive app permissions system. The Linux kernel has proven to be incredibly flexible and powerful even 30 ...

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

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necess… ...

Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work Linux's six-year long-term support was meant to help embedded devices.