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

Google is eyeing up a generic Linux kernel for Android, but even that won't fix Android's fragmentation issues. Here's why.

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

Point release brings Cinnamon tweaks, shiny apps, and Ubuntu's Hardware Enablement stack The latest point release to the ...

Elevation of privilege flaws in Android Runtime (CVE-2025-48543) and Linux kernel (CVE-2025-38352) have been exploited in ...

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 ...

The Linux Plumbers Conference is this week, and since Android is one of the biggest distributors of the Linux kernel in the world, Google software engineer Todd Kjos stopped by for a progress ...

There are arguments for each side, naturally. The biggest for Android being Linux is, of course, the fact that the kernel for the Linux operating system and the Android operating system are very ...

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

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