It wasn't an ordinary week at Linux creator's Linus Torvalds house in Portland, OR. A snowstorm had knocked out power to Torvalds' home for the better part of a week. Despite that, Torvalds still got ...

There was a study published recently indicating that teams produce better products/outcomes if they put a value on meritocracy by cutting the BS and valuing frank debate and argument when coming up ...

It looks as though Linus Torvalds needs a cooling off period. After a number of public outbursts online and raging against tech titans, Torvalds announced this weekend that he is temporarily stepping ...

The illustrious pair started with Hohndel asking about the large size of the recent Linux kernel 5.8 initial release. Hohndel wondered if it might have been so big because developers were staying home ...

Linux founder Linus Torvalds has proposed changes to the Linux kernel development process designed to make it easier for kernel developers to respond to questions of source code ownership, like those ...

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It finally happened. After years of efforts and rewrites, Linus Torvalds has signed offon a new optional feature for Linux that locks down the kernel much earlier in the boot process than was ...

Linus Torvalds this weekend announced Linux 4.9, which offers a number of significant upgrades to the kernel. “I’m pretty sure this is the biggest release we’ve ever had, at least in terms of commits, ...

The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On ...

Linux project lead Linus Torvalds says it's not easy to become a major contributor to the Linux kernel. In an e-mail interview with ZDNet.co.uk on Friday, Torvalds said that, while it is relatively ...

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News briefs for October 22, 2018. Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux kernel 4.19 this morning and handed the kernel tree back to Linus, writing "You can have the joy of dealing with the merge window." ...