A real Debian VM in your pocket, minus the screen, keyboard, and patience.

It's time for your PC and your phone to become friends.

Anurag is an experienced journalist and author who’s been covering tech for the past 5 years, with a focus on Windows, Android, and Apple. He’s written for sites like Android Police, Neowin, Dexerto, ...

It's not perfect, but it's probably the best thing out there.

I regularly need to move files between my Linux PC and my Android phone, but there are surprisingly few good options. You can ...

Anurag is an experienced journalist and author who’s been covering tech for the past 5 years, with a focus on Windows, Android, and Apple. He’s written for sites like Android Police, Neowin, Dexerto, ...

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 ...

Last time, I described how to write a simple Android app and get it talking to your code on Linux. So, of course, we need an example. Since I’ve been on something of a macropad kick lately, I decided ...

Smartphones are basically tiny computers small enough to fit in your pocket. But most ship with Android, iOS, or other operating systems designed for devices with small touchscreen displays rather ...

This privacy-focused Linux phone runs Android apps without all the intrusive tracking By Abhimanyu Ghoshal March 04, 2026 The upcoming Jolla Phone runs on Linux-based Sailfish OS, which doesn't ...