In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

He likes it: Linux guy gives Windows Home Server a (qualified) thumbs up It seems every time I do a Windows Home Server (WHS) post, the comments end up evolving/devolving into a debate over whether ...

The speed at which Linux developers are working on version 5.17 of the popular kernel has gotten the OS’ boss a bit worried. In the weekly State of the kernel post, Linux creator (and the biggest ...

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.

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it provided a single open operating system that everyone could use. With the ...

In recent years, Microsoft has warmed up to Linux, which it used to see as a rival. Now, there's more use of Linux than Windows on Microsoft Azure.

To see a real (non-slop) image one must go about half a year back, only to find some puff piece about slop, i.e. the usual: It is sad to see someone who devoted many years of his life producing ...

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 them. They ...

Many people have read that post by Linus Torvalds in the comp.os.minix newsgroup on Usenet, or at least heard about it. Many more are aware of how that (free) operating system ended up taking over ...

Free software programmer Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of the Gnome and Mono projects, has revealed that he dumped Linux months ago in favor of Mac OS, citing fragmentation and incompatibilities among ...

Linus Torvalds, creator and curator of the Linux kernel, has a quandary on his hands: should he stick to Linux’s long-time tradition of massive, multple-decimal-point version numbers, or should he ...