Your phone is more capable than Android lets on.

In surprising news from jolly old England, Canonical announces that Ubuntu has developed an Ubuntu for smartphones and tablets. We’ll be able to switch out Android for Ubuntu on many existing devices.

The Android Linux Terminal app is now widely available for Pixel users running the March 2025 update. The Debian-based environment allows users to carry a fully fledged Linux instance with them, ...

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 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 ...

The next quarterly Android 16 update will significantly improve file access for the Linux Terminal app. Currently, the Linux virtual machine is limited to accessing only the phone’s Downloads folder.

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 ...

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 ...

The developers behind the Moblin operating system for netbooks and MIDs (mobile internet devices) have announced plans to enable Google Android applications to run on Moblin. Let that sink in for a ...