Linux News Downloads & RevenueLinux News: Open Source & Tech · Google Play
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Updated 3 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPinenuts Android Developers
CategoryNews & Magazines
PriceFree
Released
Installs50k+
Rating★ 4.6 (1.6k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Linux News: Open Source & Tech update history & changes
Last change · 3 events since 12 Feb 2012Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 3 events
- 🆕Linux News: Open Source & Tech first spotted by AppInsiderUnited States (found via similar)
- 📦Linux News: Open Source & Tech version 2.6.4pBugfixes and performance improvements
New news sources - 🆕Linux News: Open Source & Tech released on Google Play
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
1.6k ratings
Measured
Linux News: Open Source & Tech on Google Play
App details
App ID
it.pinenuts.linuxnews
Publisher
PINENUTS SRL SEMPLIFICATA AD UNI CO SOCIO
Publisher country
Italy
Content rating
Everyone
Linux News: Open Source & Tech downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Business model: Ad-led
How Linux News: Open Source & Tech makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Ads · 5 ad networks
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not in a Google Play top chart right now. | ||
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
1.6k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1.6k
Measured
Written reviews
171
Measured
About Linux News: Open Source & Tech
All the Latest News on Linux and Open Source, HowTo and Tutorials! A fast, simple and immediate mobile news feed reader for Linux News!
Choose and read the most famous Linux News blogs and sites with your mobile free of charge and in the fastest way possible.
If you want to stay up to date with what happens in the Linux, Unix and Open Source World and use as little time as possible, then this app is what you need!
Linux News is a RSS Feed Reader but unlike other excellent news readers, it will bring you directly to the headlines without wasting any time messing around with the user interface or news loading. Linux News is the best app for the daily reader.
You will find all the latest News, software releases, security issues and fixes, Howto and tutorials.
You can reorder and disable the feeds that you are not interested in.
Linux News will show you the content of these news sites:
* SlashDot Linux
* LWN.net (Linux Weekly News)
* LXer
* Linux.com
* Linux Magazine
* Linux Insider
* TuxMachines
* Phoronix
* OS News
* OSTechNix
* Linux Today
* Linux Reddit channel
* Opensource Reddit channel
* OMGUbuntu (Ubuntu news)
* NoobsLab
* Planet Ubuntu
* UbuntuFree
* Opensource.com
* Ghacks
* LinuxSecurity.com
* LinuxGizmos.com
* GamingOnLinux
* TecMint
* DistroWatch
* HowtoForge.com
* Itsfoss.net
and more.
If you want another site to be included in the list, please send us an email.
We also appreciate critics and suggestions!
Disclaimer: This app is not affiliated nor related with any of the blogs and sites cited here. The content the app shows comes from publicly available rss feeds and thus the app is not to be held responsible for any of the content displayed.
Choose and read the most famous Linux News blogs and sites with your mobile free of charge and in the fastest way possible.
If you want to stay up to date with what happens in the Linux, Unix and Open Source World and use as little time as possible, then this app is what you need!
Linux News is a RSS Feed Reader but unlike other excellent news readers, it will bring you directly to the headlines without wasting any time messing around with the user interface or news loading. Linux News is the best app for the daily reader.
You will find all the latest News, software releases, security issues and fixes, Howto and tutorials.
You can reorder and disable the feeds that you are not interested in.
Linux News will show you the content of these news sites:
* SlashDot Linux
* LWN.net (Linux Weekly News)
* LXer
* Linux.com
* Linux Magazine
* Linux Insider
* TuxMachines
* Phoronix
* OS News
* OSTechNix
* Linux Today
* Linux Reddit channel
* Opensource Reddit channel
* OMGUbuntu (Ubuntu news)
* NoobsLab
* Planet Ubuntu
* UbuntuFree
* Opensource.com
* Ghacks
* LinuxSecurity.com
* LinuxGizmos.com
* GamingOnLinux
* TecMint
* DistroWatch
* HowtoForge.com
* Itsfoss.net
and more.
If you want another site to be included in the list, please send us an email.
We also appreciate critics and suggestions!
Disclaimer: This app is not affiliated nor related with any of the blogs and sites cited here. The content the app shows comes from publicly available rss feeds and thus the app is not to be held responsible for any of the content displayed.
What's new in 2.6.4p
Bugfixes and performance improvements
New news sources
New news sources