Kernel 6.16 may be the last with the new disk format The geek titans are clashing once again, and Linux supremo Linus Torvalds has warned: "I think we'll be parting ways" as of kernel 6.17.… The ...

However, while the conflict has cooled down, and Microsoft loves Linux these days, the two leaders, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds, had never met… until now.

Here’s how it works. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, finally met in person at a friendly dinner. (Image credit: Mark Russinovich via LinkedIn) ...

Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds met publicly for the first time at a dinner hosted by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, marking a symbolic moment between former software rivals.

Photo by LinkedIn/Mark Russinovich Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds met for the first time over dinner last weekend, capturing global interest of tech enthusiasts. A photo circulating on LinkedIn ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds have met for the first time ever. The Verge notes that it all happened at a dinner organised by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark ...

Sysinternals founder Mark Russinovich's after-dinner photo just flipped the nerd world into Kardashian-like levels of ...

Time has a funny way of changing people's views. Anger and mistrust can often fade into mild scepticism, and once bitter rivals can sometimes develop a healthy understanding. This certainly seems to ...

Incidentally, Jobs approached Torvalds about working for Apple around 2000. At that time, Jobs offered Torvalds a fairly high salary, but he also asked him to stop being involved in the Linux project.

This isn't the first time Torvalds has broken bread with Microsoft. He was photographed hanging around, smiling, laughing, and chatting with the Microsoft team at their booth at LinuxCon in 2016.

A very special chapter in tech history was recently opened at a private dinner: For the first time, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, and Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, met ...