What were you like as a kid? What were your hobbies? TORVALDS: Big teeth, bad taste in clothes, awkward, you know. Most of us were that way, I tend to notice later. I don’t really remember any ...

Linus Torvalds, inventor of the open-source Linux operating system and father of the modern open-source movement, never meant to start a revolution. In fact, he wanted the OS all to himself. That’s ...

This post first appeared on Business Insider. Hello everybody out there using minix - I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones… ...

The once highly-strung Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds now says he's become quieter, more self-aware and less forceful, but not necessarily more diplomatic. And he hates social-media companies. In ...

A recent National Review story headlined Dumb Headline of the Day by Kevin Williamson contained this bit: As any copy-editor will tell you, headline-composers are the most-read writers in any ...

Life seems to be getting even better for Linus Torvalds. Having just taken a leave from his “day job” at chip designer Transmeta, Torvalds is about to begin a new one at the Open Source Development ...

Twenty-four years ago this month, a Finnish developer with a sharp tongue who's regarded by some as one of the most influential programmers alive today released version 0.01 of the Linux kernel to the ...

TL;DR: Linux creator Linus Torvalds criticized AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA for having "buggy" hardware and expressed skepticism about the AI industry's hype, stating it's "90% marketing and 10% reality." ...