Linus Torvalds. But keeping things professional is pretty much the last thing he wants. According to Torvalds, there's no room for subtlety or niceness when it comes to kernel development.

Even though Linus Torvalds has always been known as a deity-like figure in the world of Linux, lately he has been quite outspoken about where he thinks his operating system is going and what its ...

The latest Linux kernel release 4.6 -rc2, which was released just before the event, is one of the larger releases Torvalds has made in the last couple of years.

Linus Torvalds (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The tech industry has always been a haven for nonconformists. Its heroes, like Linus Torvalds, are brilliant, bullheaded and brash.

The Linux Foundation has posted the second half of its long and thorough interview with Linux founder Linus Torvalds, part of the Foundation’s “open voices” podcast. While the first part of ...

Linus Torvalds, the leader behind Linux, git, and much of open source culture, reflects on how he’s been hostile to community members. I hope he follows through — that would be his biggest ...

From Linus Torvalds Date Wed, 3 Jan 2018 15:51:35 -0800 Subject Re: Avoid speculative indirect calls in kernel. On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote: ...

Also: Linus Torvalds is doing a good and brave thing. Over the decades, Torvalds has torn into security developers, open-source lawyers, and other kernel developers, such as Sage Sharp.

Torvalds also noted that as a technical person he is impressed by the ingenuity of the people who attack Linux code. “There are smart people doing bad things. I wish they were on our side, and ...

Torvalds said that if he went back 10 years, there is no way he could have planned what has happened and landed in Linux today. While Torvalds himself isn’t looking 10 years into the future ...

Linus Torvalds (l) and Dirk Hohndel (r) at the Open Source Summit Europe Image: Matt Asay. Recently some neighbor kids asked me what I do for a living. “I read and write emails,” I told them.