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In fact, just as both Torvalds and Dr. Shinya Yamanaka were named laureates earlier this year, so too have they both been named joint Grand Winners of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize.

As Torvalds himself says, the Linux phenomenon is about something else entirely, "something far more wide-reaching." No, most of Torvalds' enemies are to be found closer to home.

Linus Torvalds, the creator and maintainer of the Linux Kernel, ... No operating system out there in such wide use has had the same person at the top for 27 years that I can think of.

At Intel Innovation 2022, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the "godfather of open source" who created the Linux operating system. Their wide-ranging conversation during the ...

VANCOUVER, BC—Linus Torvalds is no longer worried about what happens to Linux if he gets hit by a bus, as he’s confident there is a work flow process in place that guarantees the success of Linux.

Linus Torvalds, who created Linux back in 1991, ... Millennium Technology Prize, a top honor whose past winners have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. ...

"Honestly," Linus Torvalds starts his reply, "I'm pretty damn fed up with buggy hardware and completely theoretical attacks that have never actually shown themselves to be used in practice." ...

Apple’s plan to build Macs featuring its own chips with an ARM-based instruction set is getting a thumbs-up from Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds. Speaking during last week’s onine Linux ...

In 1991, 22-year old Finnish computer programmer Linus Torvalds released his own operating system. Opening with the message "Hello everybody out there," (a now-iconic phrase among Linux fans), he ...