The illustrious pair started with Hohndel asking about the large size of the recent Linux kernel 5.8 initial release. Hohndel wondered if it might have been so big because developers were staying home ...

On September 16, 2018, Linus Torvalds released the 4.19-rc4 version of the kernel, and he also announced he was taking a break from Linux development in order to consider his own behavior and to come ...

Linux after Linus? The kernel community finally drafts a plan for replacing Torvalds ...

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

Linus Torvalds started the Linux project in 1991, developing a Unix-like kernel inspired by Andrew S. Tanenbaum's Minix.

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

Linux originator Linus Torvalds has proposed changes to the kernel development process that would make it easier for Linux kernel developers to respond to questions of source-code ownership like those ...

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On October 23, 2018, Linus Torvalds came out of his self-imposed isolation, pulling a lot of patches from the git trees of various developers. It was his first appearance on the Linux Kernel Mailing ...

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Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds seems delighted with the first release candidate (rc1) of the Linux kernel version 5.8, which contains 800,000 new lines of code and over 14,000 changed files, ...

The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, today announced its support for enhancements to the Linux kernel submission ...