Key Points The World Wide Web of Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee used to say: “I just had to take the hypertext idea […] The 11 Oldest Versions of Windows Updated:November 1, 2023byLiam Frady The oldest versions of Windows tell a story of constant innovation, adaptation, and, ultimate...
Meritocracy of the kind espoused by Torvalds at the conference is a powerful idea in the world of software development: What you can do is more important than what you look like or how you relate to other people, which is a large part of where people who work...
Any of the critics of Linux or of Torvalds are absolutely free to copy the product of the work of Torvalds and thousands of other contributors, add their pet security enhancements, and release their improved kernel code to anyone who cares to use it. What the critics are complaining about is...
It is important to note that Linus Torvalds' response focuses on the rationale behind the decision and his personal stance, but it does not definitively address whether there is a possibility for the removed maintainers to be reinstated in the future. The patch submitted by Greg Kroah-Hartman m...
Linus Under Wraps?We all know Linus Torvalds. We “get it” — he’s a guy with a big vocabulary who doesn’t suffer fools gladly. Many of us are okay with “Linus being Linus,” though some lately have begun to question how positive his criticisms can be. Earlier this week,Business...
Linux mascot tux is named after is personal mascot with the same name. In 2008, Torvalds stated that he used the Fedora distribution of Linux and it was confirmed in a later 2012 interview. He has also posted updates about his choice of the desktop environment, often in response. ...
At age 10 Torvalds began to dabble incomputer programmingon his grandfather’s Commodore VIC-20. In 1991 while a computer science student at the University of Helsinki (M.S., 1996), he purchased his firstpersonal computer(PC). He was not satisfied, however, with the computer’soperating sys...
In April 1991, Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student of computer science at the University of Helsinki, Finland, began his personal project — to create a new operating system kernel. This modest project will evolve into the world-famous Linux operating system and will make Linus one of the...