Linus plans to live forever. But just in case he doesn't, there's now a succession plan (though no actual successor).

"In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time." ...

Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases The Linux kernel project has finally answered one of the biggest questions ...

If the designated successor cannot or will not take over the development of the Linux kernel, a meeting will decide on the ...

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 ...

Seems there's no way to avoid the AI debate. Even when you think the debate shouldn't exist.

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 ...

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 ...