The history of Linux is among the most unusual stories of recent technological progress. In 1991, Finnish undergraduate Linus ...

A computer operating system called Linux powers most of the servers running the Internet, much of the world's financial trading systems, nearly all of the world's super computer and is the basis for ...

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 ...

Today is the birthday of Linus. Although that's essentially a private event for him, there's an interesting historical link to the creation of the Linux kernel, too. As is well known, before he ...

Linus Torvalds, the benevolent dictator for life of the Linux kernel, has reportedly erupted in anger after testing code included in the Linux 6.15-rc1 kernel slowed down the build process and ...

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has never suffered fools gladly. In particular, he really dislikes people who make improving security in Linux more trouble than it needs to be. Most recently, in his ...

CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems. Besides his work with CNET, Don's work has been featured in a ...

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 ...

Oregon software developer Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux computer operating system, issued an apology Sunday for caustic online behavior and said he would take some time away to improve his ...