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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 afazel
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#ac
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...
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by Casey Chan
Nov 06, 2008
In a bit of disappointing news, it looks like Mozilla has no plans to bring Firefox Mobile to the Android platform. Instead, they'll be focusing on a Linux version for Nokia Internet Tablets and to...
