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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 12, 2012
The folks at Canonical (the masterminds behind the Ubuntu Linux project) have been kicking around the idea of a mobile version of Ubuntu for about four years now. First hearing about it back in 2008...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 19, 2012
HTC has made the Ice Cream Sandwich kernel sources for the Vivid, the Sensation, and the Sensation XE available for download on their HTC Developer Center website. It's been about a week si...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 19, 2012
Following last week's Ice Cream Sandwich update release for the international Samsung Galaxy S II, the kernel source code (along with other open-source odds and ends) for the new firmware has be...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 19, 2012
The latest version of the Linux kernel was released Sunday afternoon, and with version 3.3 comes something that just may get your inner-geek excited -- tons of Android changes have been merged. In t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Mar 08, 2012
The Linux Foundation has announced four new members this week, including the familiar face of NVIDIA. As most of us here know, Android is based on the Linux kernel, and NVIDIA has become a major har...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 27, 2012
There's been quite a bit of buzz since the announcement of Ubuntu for Android, and there's quite a bit of buzz in Hall 7 here at Mobile World Congress. That's where Canonical is showing ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 23, 2012
There's been a lot of talk about Ubuntu since they let it out that they're working on some goodies for Android devices, and it got us to thinking. In the real world (you know, that one that ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 22, 2012
Check out our Ubuntu for Android forums!
Many a sleepless night has been spent by Android hackers getting Ubuntu to run natively on our Android devices. It's hard work, but fun and the end r...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 21, 2012
This, folks, is Ubuntu on Android. An honest-to-goodness, not janky or VNC'd, full build of the Linux distro powered by an Android smartphone.
We'll let that sink in.
Canonical -- the comp...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 01, 2012
The device itself won't be available for another couple of weeks or so, but Samsung has wasted no time in releasing the Linux kernel source (and other open-source bits and pieces) for the AT&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 23, 2012
What is a kernel? If you spend any time reading Android forums, blogs, how-to posts or online discussion you'll soon hear people talking about the kernel. A kernel isn't somethin...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
We knew this one was coming since the AOSP sources were pushed, and Jean-Baptiste Queru again made it official on the Android Building mailing list. The Linux kernel sources for the Crespo (Sa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 14, 2011
Microsoft and Quanta Computer have signed (what we presume is a giant stack of legal papers) an agreement that protects and licenses Quanta by providing "broad coverage under Microsoft's pa...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 03, 2011
Recently, a popular website ran an editorial about how Android was turning into the new Linux, and just how awful a thing that was. The author was half right -- Android is turning out to be th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 22, 2011
Google has (finally) released the Music Manager PC client for Linux, meaning work-arounds like WINE are no longer necessary. You can download pre-packaged binaries in either .rpm or .deb format,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 06, 2011
We all love Google's new cloud music service, but I'm not loving that Linux was forgotten when the Music Manager client was written. It's one of those things where I'll have to sit down and conf...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 10, 2011
I do what I do here at Android Central for a few different reasons, but the biggest is because I am an Android geek. I am totally into Android, and love talking about it – sometimes too muc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 21, 2011
As Android gets more popular and mainstream, new users are coming out of the woodwork! I'm very happy to say that a portion of those users are running Linux on their desktops, and they're hungry...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 10, 2011
We've seen this happen in the past on many devices, but this is a first for the Samsung Nexus S. Yes, the beautiful Samsung Nexus S that runs Gingerbread out of the box has now been persuaded to run ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 13, 2010
We love these Android "about" screens. And the reason we love them is that you can make your own with a couple of lines in the command prompt and about 30 seconds with a text editor. So whe...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 23, 2010
There are three things I love -- open source, Linux, and ingenuity. Android Central forum member 42turkeys brings all three together, along with some serious Mac love in his versions of the Side...
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by Ali Fazel
Jul 09, 2010
If Windows 3.1 on your Droid isn't good enough for you, how about a modern desktop OS running on your Nexus One or Sprint Evo 4G? Braniac Max from NexusOneHacks.net managed to shoehorn Ubuntu o...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 06, 2010
Here's a guy with tech skills cranked up to 11. Sven Killig has built USB host drivers for the Nexus One and shows them off in a big way. USB keyboards, webcams, flash drives, even output ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Apr 25, 2010
If you have an old iPhone 2G laying around (and chances are if you do have one, it's laying around, right?) and want to run Android on it like we saw the other day, instructions are now available. It'...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 02, 2010
Hey everyone. Here's a quick tip that often gets overlooked amidst the madness. Since everyone loves to show off their Android homescreen setup, Let's talk about how to do it if you're not roote...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 23, 2010
There's been absolutely no doubt that Android's usage share has skyrocketed in the last year, and here's another example. Gartner released figures today that show a 3.4 percentage point climb over...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 07, 2010
If you don't know the name Linus Torvalds, well, let's just say he's the reason you're holding that Android phone in your hand. He created the Linux kernel, which is what Android is built on. Anyway, ...
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by Brian Hart
Feb 09, 2009
Just as we wait for more Android handsets to launch and join the lonely G1, there's news of another Linux-based mobile platform with a substantial international collaborative effort: LiMo Foundation...
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by Casey Chan
Jan 14, 2009
Are you a huge Google Fan who just so happens to only use Mac or Linux computer and thus are locked out of Google's semi-spanking new browser Chrome? Yeah, we can relate. Luckily, the reports are c...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 12, 2008
Whoa. Though Google and T-mobile squashed root access with the RC30 update it didn't stop people from having fun with it in the few days the G1 was jailbroken. Case in point: Jay Freeman loaded Deb...
