But now there’s a new effort called Project Halium which is designed to create a single base that can be used to get any non-Android operating system to run on Android-compatible hardware.

Russia plans Linux-based mobile operating system to rival Android and iOS Ministry of Communications hopes China and other BRICS nations will join the project.

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Android phones, smart TVs and even a smart refrigerator use Linux. The operating system is also widely used in other areas, like in 97 percent of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.

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WebOS is, of course, a Linux-based operating system originally developed by Palm.