'Just a hobby, won't be big': Linus Torvalds introduced Linux 35 years ago - and almost called it Freax ...

Even with AI, Torvalds seems to want a hands on approach.

The development of Linux, a free ‘hobby’ operating system, was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today.

Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

A computer operating system called Linux powers most of the servers running the Internet, much of the world's financial trading systems, nearly all of the world's super computer and is the basis for ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

Today is the birthday of Linus. Although that's essentially a private event for him, there's an interesting historical link to the creation of the Linux kernel, too. As is well known, before he ...

There's an interesting public spat going on in the world of Linux, where a Linux programmer from Intel, Sarah Sharp, has picked a fight with the Linux creator himself: Linus Torvalds. She wants him to ...