Linus Torvalds was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He wanted to create an academic version of Unix OS for free. Linus began writing the code. Later his very own operating system ...

Life seems to be getting even better for Linus Torvalds. Having just taken a leave from his “day job” at chip designer Transmeta, Torvalds is about to begin a new one at the Open Source Development ...

A core Linux maintainer answers users’ questions about quality, the pace of development, and how new kernel developers can get involved. Andrew Morton is well-known in the kernel community for doing a ...

In this interview, Linux Journal chats with Robert Love, the principal maintainer of an increasingly popular kernel-preemption patch that improves the real-time responsiveness of the Linux kernel.