On this day 34 years ago, an unknown computer science student from Finland announced that a new free operating system project was “starting to get ready.” Linus Benedict Torvalds elaborated by ...

In August 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki posted a request to an Internet discussion group asking for help on a project to build a free computer operating system (OS). Linus Torvalds ...

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know ...

If something happens to Linus Torvalds, there's now a succession plan. Rather than naming a successor, the plan describes a process for selecting successors. However, Torvalds has no plans to retire.