On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds announced a hobby project that evolved into Linux, one of the most important computing revolutions. But why are there so many Linux distros today? This video ...

Is meanness the secret sauce of a winning open source project? It might be, according to Linus Torvalds, the guy who's been running the Linux kernel project for the past 22 years. This week, Torvalds ...

Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds is fuming over an "idiotic" bug that slipped into the final Linux kernel 4.8 release. Announcing the 4.8 release on Sunday, Torvalds' correspondence on the Linux ...

Make no mistake about it. If you include smartphones and tablets, you can argue Linux is already the top end-user operating system. In addition, there are many excellent Linux desktops, such as Mint ...

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The tech industry has always been a haven for nonconformists. Its heroes, like Linus Torvalds, are brilliant, bullheaded and brash. They say what they want, wear what they want and rage against the ...

, the creator of the Linux computer operating system, was named today the co-winner of the 2012 , the world's largest tech prize. Torvalds, 42, shares the award with renown stem cell researcher of ...

Linus Torvalds became the first ever recipient of the Intel Innovation Award for Lifetime Achievement during Pat Gelsinger's opening address at Innovation 2022. Torvalds is a Finnish-American software ...

Oregon software developer Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux computer operating system, issued an apology Sunday for caustic online behavior and said he would take some time away to improve his ...

Linus Torvalds, the founder and maintainer of the incredibly popular free Linux operating system, spends his days working from home in a bathrobe in complete silence. Torvalds revealed his work ...

The renowned programmer Linus Torvalds has warned users of Linux, the popular open source operating system he built, not to use an Oracle file system because of possible legal actions, Phoronix's ...

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