My phone is more than a phone now.

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Google’s Pixel Drop updates rarely include surprises these days, but the rollout of the Linux Terminal app gave hungry power users something to sink their teeth into. It grants users access to a ...

The key to this change is a new terminal app that uses the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF). With this app, users can run Linux commands on their Android device through a virtual machine (VM).

Google is developing another Linux terminal app. The app runs a full Debian environment. Developers will be able to build Android apps on device. For some time, Android has had access to a terminal ...

And emulation software allows you to run some x86 apps and games on Arm-based processors, as well as play some Windows games on Linux systems. All of which is to say, it probably shouldn’t be ...

AYN has announced initial support for Linux on the Odin 3 handheld. This means you can turn the device into one of the most powerful Arm-based Linux handhelds. You’ll likely have to wait for ...