The company states that the phone experience will be pure Android--it’s a normal Android phone. When the device is connected to a computer screen, however, it launches a full Ubuntu desktop on the ...

Canonical has released an Ubuntu and Android dual boot preview for developers. This lets developers test the ability to easily boot back and forth between Android and Ubuntu on mobile devices. We are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google is developing a Linux terminal app for Android. The Terminal app can be enabled via developer options and will install Debian in a virtual machine. This app is likely intended for Chromebooks ...

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.

Turn your Android phone into a powerful control panel for your Linux PC.