The rocky road to the Linux 7.1 kernel release is finally smoothing out. Discover what fixes made the cut this week and which ...

Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds has signaled he’ll push back when he receives irrelevant pull requests, after complaining that developers are making badly timed and trivial submissions, sometimes ...

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 ...

Linux 7.1 merge window closed; first release candidate out now for public testing. A four-year NTFS rewrite boosts speed and security for Windows-Linux dual-boot file access. Linux 7.1 also phases out ...

In a surprising move, Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, is taking a break from his Linux kernel work to work on his behavior toward other developers. In a note to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...