It wasn't an ordinary week at Linux creator's Linus Torvalds house in Portland, OR. A snowstorm had knocked out power to Torvalds' home for the better part of a week. Despite that, Torvalds still got ...

It looks as though Linus Torvalds needs a cooling off period. After a number of public outbursts online and raging against tech titans, Torvalds announced this weekend that he is temporarily stepping ...

That's just it, he didn't write Linux himself, it was built by the contributions of countless others. It was a project he started to teach himself kernel programming, based on re-creating Minix. It ...

It finally happened. After years of efforts and rewrites, Linus Torvalds has signed offon a new optional feature for Linux that locks down the kernel much earlier in the boot process than was ...

The Linux kernel could drop support for i486 processors in the near future. Linus Torvalds floated the idea, suggesting that the work that goes into maintaining support for i486 just isn't worth it.