Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything ...

For years, Torvalds has managed kernel versioning with a lighthearted logic: increase the major number only when he can no ...

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 ...

At Open Source Summit Europe in Scotland, Linus Torvalds is meeting with Linux's top 40 or so developers at the Maintainers' Summit. This is his first step back in taking over Linux's reins. A little ...

TORONTO -- It's been twenty-five years since Linux began. Today, we're living in a world where Microsoft has embraced Linux and everything -- and I mean everything -- depends on Linux. It didn't start ...

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 ...

There's an interesting public spat going on in the world of Linux, where a Linux programmer from Intel, Sarah Sharp, has picked a fight with the Linux creator himself: Linus Torvalds. She wants him to ...

Linux founder Linus Torvalds recently picked up a Google Chromebook Pixel, and the hardware left such a positive impression that he posed the question "Why do PC manufacturers even bother any more?" ...

Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, has just released the sixth Linux 6.16 release candidate. This week he noted that he had a scare that could have delayed this version. Linus Torvalds has ...

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In January 2006, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released in draft form (gplv3.fsf.org/draft) a revised and updated version of the GNU General Public License (GPL ...

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 ...