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 ...

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 ...

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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… ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds became the first ever recipient of the Intel Innovation Award for Lifetime Achievement during Pat Gelsinger's opening address at Innovation 2022. Torvalds is a Finnish-American software ...