Google just released Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1, and as usual, didn't provide a changelog. If you want to know what's new, we've ...

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A group of developers hope to unite several Linux-based mobile distributions with a common Android base that will make it easier for them to run on Android hardware. The developers are aiming to ...

Google's Android operating system can trace its roots back to a rather humble newsgroup post by Linus Torvalds in 1991.

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?

A lead software engineer at Ubuntu-maker Canonical has released a tool to run Android apps on Linux desktops without using emulators.

Netbooks will pave way for Google to squash Microsoft's OS dominance in two to three years, thanks to its Linux-based Android platform, according to an analyst.

Android users rejoice! Linux kernel LTS releases are now good for 6 years Linux kernel lifecycle tripled to match the realities of hardware development.

Google wants less forking, more modularization for Android’s Linux kernel.

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