Linux on phones is still a pipedream for many, but Sailfish OS makes it a reality. It just needs more robust support.

While Symbian is essentially going the way of the DoDo, and Nokia’s shifting some of its resources away from MeeGo, those aren’t the only open source mobile operating systems around. Google Android is ...

Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it ...

ScummVM is a free and open source tool that makes it possible to run classic PC games on a wide variety of modern platforms. The software was originally designed to recreate the LucasArts game engine ...

There are a few Linux-based Phone operating systems out there working hard toward an eventual release – and, hopefully, some actual phone hardware that they’ll ship with. Sailfish, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch ...

After the demise of the Ubuntu Phone, Linux users appear to be placing their hopes for a mobile device on the Librem 5, a smartphone that managed to raise much more than it asked for in a ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...