Android's new Canary update enables support for graphical Linux apps in the Linux terminal, making it more versatile. The update introduces a simple way to launch graphical apps through the Weston ...

The Linux Terminal app is now available for Pixel devices on the latest Android 15 update. The app lets users run Debian on their devices.

Although Android already has a sandboxed Linux terminal available, this Google model will be geared toward developers. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer Aug. 7, 2025 at 6:45 p.m. PT ...

And yes, I know that Android is Linux-based, but that’s irrelevant to the topic at hand. They can’t run the same software, and gaming handhelds running the two have a night-and-day difference.

Realizing this, Google added Linux to the OS a while back. Now, it's doing the same for Android with a new, official way to run Linux apps and distros.

WSL is now ready for prime time The original vision of a Linux-compatible set of APIs on top of Windows proved complex to maintain and would always lag the fast-moving Linux kernel. As a result ...

This makes Android e-readers more expensive than their Linux counterparts. There are some exceptions; the NOOK runs Android, but it taps into a massive online bookstore, ditto with Hyread and Readmoo.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necess… ...