With first-quarter shipments exceeding Macs in the United States, Chromebooks are very popular. Schools and enterprises choose Chromebooks for their very streamlined use case: low cost, fast boot ...

Waydroid is an open source tool that installs an Android image in a container on Linux devices in order to let you run Android apps on Linux phones or PCs. But you know what else runs Linux these days ...

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 necessarily ...

Just like old PCs and laptops, there are plenty of ways to repurpose an old smartphone. If it has a functional camera, you could turn it into a makeshift webcam for your PC, or even a full-on ...

I will show that it's possible to install, configure, and use this Linux distribution with absolutely no command-line access. Read now Chromebook users may soon have a simpler way to run their ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. A new commit on the Chromium Gerrit has come to light, with the name ...

A Canonical engineer's new open-source project, Anbox, lets you run Android apps natively on Ubuntu and other Linux-powered desktops. It differs from several existing projects that allow Android apps ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: Yes, you can install Snap packages in Fedora, and System76 isn’t giving up on Ubuntu Android rules the roost when it comes to mobile operating systems, it has the ...