The kernel has come a long way since Linus branched off 2.4.15 to create 2.5.0 back on November 22, 2001. Since then, rapid development has ensued, resulting in a drastically different and ...

Torvalds' preference for version numbers that he can count on his fingers and toes adds a personal touch to the otherwise technical world of software development. The Linux kernel versioning system ...

The latest Linux kernel release closes out the 6.x era - and it's a gift to cloud admins ...

Even many Linux users aren't aware that there are many different kinds of Linux kernels. Sure, there's the eternal release candidate kernels, which Linus Torvalds is perpetually working on, but then ...

It took years for the Internet to reach its first 100 computers. Today, 100 new ones join each second. And running deep within the silicon souls of most of these machines is the work of a technical ...

Over the weekend, Linux Torvalds announced Linux kernel 6.10 is now ready for general consumption. Although this isn't the biggest kernel in recent history, it does include a few new features. One of ...

The Linux kernel was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, and first announced to the world on August 25, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. At the time, Torvalds ...

The above video may or may not be an accurate depiction of the early days of Linux. In Helsinki in 1991, a college student named Linus Torvalds was working on what was “initially a terminal emulator, ...