Last Monday in the "Moderated Discussions" forum at realworldtech.com, Linus Torvalds—founding developer and current supreme maintainer of the Linux kernel—answered a user's question about a ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds has returned to using a mechanical keyboard, packing his preferred Cherry MX Blue keyswitches after six months ...

In a recent interview, Linux Kernel lead developer Linus Torvalds claimed that AI is 90% marketing and 10% reality. The developer says he ignores advances in the AI landscape because "the whole ...

Before that, Torvalds had been content to keep Linux's code straight by hand. But, by 1999, as developer Larry McVoy observed, Torvalds was on the verge of burning out. The problem? You couldn't ...

Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux, has been keeping a low profile lately. But at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Japan, Torvalds and his good friend Dirk Hohndel, the head of Verizon ...

Linus Torvalds: “Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder.” Your email has been sent Recently some neighbor kids asked me what I do for a living. “I read and write emails,” I told ...

The license plate on Linus Torvalds' Mercedes SLK convertible says it all. The frame running around the outside of the plate reads "Mr. Linux. King of Geeks." But the plate itself says "Dad of 3." ...

In a recent Google+ post, Linus Torvalds wrote: “Not many people know this about me, but in between kernel pulls I relax by doing fighter jet rides.” The Linux Foundation released some ‘not ...

Linus Torvalds at LinuxCon in Seattle this morning. The surprise guest at LinuxCon in Seattle this morning was none other than Linus Torvalds, the driving force behind the Linux kernel and a ...

Anybody can contribute to the Linux kernel, but any person's commit suggestion can become the focus of the kernel's master and namesake, Linus Torvalds. Torvalds is famously not overly committed ...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has called AI little more than a marketing ploy. In a recent interview with TFiR at the Open Source Summit in Vienna, Torvalds acknowledged artificial intelligence is ...