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 ...

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 ...

Linus Torvalds: “Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder.” Your email has been sent Recently some neighbor kids asked me what I do for a living. “I read and write emails,” I told them. They ...

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 ...

When it comes to achieving fame and fortune in the tech industry, a visionary, Steve Jobs-like character who can dream up amazing products typically comes to mind. That's not at all what propelled ...

HELSINKI, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The Linux computer operating system, which so far has had little success in use for cellphones, is set to become more widely available in handsets next year, helped by ...