While Linus Torvalds’ name is synonymous with the Linux kernel, Al Viro’s may be one day, too. Viro has contributed 1,571 changes to the kernel, which sits at the core of the Linux operating system, ...

Today, as Corbet said, "We are up to just over 40 million lines of code at this point. It's fair to say that, indeed, Linux has become big and professional." The first thing he noted was that, no ...

The takeaway: Linus Torvalds has been the ultimate judge and executor of all commits to the Linux codebase for more than 30 years. As he grows older, however, the community behind one of the most ...

The open-source community is looking for a way out of the wave of new laws requiring operating systems to collect users’ ages.