Android fragmentation is a constant issue for the world’s most popular operating system. While high-end consumers are treated to a fresh Android version each year, another version comes along before ...

A major change in the maintenance lifecycle of Linux kernels is coming. During a Linaro Connect 2017 presentation on Android’s Project Treble, Googler Iliyan Malchev announced that Linux LTS (Long ...

The latest version of the Linux kernel was just released on Sunday, and there’s a little bonus which we think is worth considering. It seems that many changes from Android made their way into version ...

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Google has been talking about getting Android as close as possible to the mainline Linux kernel. Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, but it has always used a heavily-modified version with ...

On Monday this week, kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman removed the drivers for Android from the Linux kernel’s staging tree, thus insuring that–for now–Android is not headed for the mainstream Linux ...

News briefs for August 7, 2018. Security researchers have discovered a bug in kernel 4.9 called SegmentSmack. Red Hat comments that "a remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger time and ...