Linus Torvalds

Linus has had enough of links that point to 'stupid useless garbage'

'Stop this garbage already!'

OSes08 Sep 2025 | 43

Linux is about to lose a feature – over a personality clash

comment A large and unfortunate mistake in the kernel development management process is underway

OSes15 Aug 2025 | 150

The plan for Linux after Torvalds has a kernel of truth: There isn’t one

Opinion Success does not guarantee succession

OSes14 Aug 2025 | 150

Torvalds blasts tardy kernel dev: Your 'garbage' RISC-V patches are 'making the world worse'

Well, at least he didn't drop the F-bomb

OSes11 Aug 2025 | 53

Linux kernel 6.16 lands without any headline features but 38M lines of code

Mostly minor changes under the hood – a lot of them

OSes29 Jul 2025 | 30

Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy

Opinion There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on it

Personal Tech20 May 2025 | 237

Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos

Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things up

OSes13 May 2025 | 99

Linus Torvalds forgot to release Linux 6.14 for a whole day

‘It's just pure incompetence’ confesses penguin emperor

OSes25 Mar 2025 | 35

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!

Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel post went astray

OSes18 Feb 2025 | 38

'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters

Rustaceans could just wait for unwelcoming C coders to slowly SIGQUIT...

OSes11 Feb 2025 | 44

'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

Open source project chief hits out at 'social media brigading'

Software07 Feb 2025 | 135

Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer

‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7

Personal Tech13 Jan 2025 | 62

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

Opinion Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so

Software08 Nov 2024 | 233

Thanks, Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%

21 lines that show the big man still has what it takes

OSes06 Nov 2024 | 45

Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

Just like his once famous temper, Linux kernel creator also ditched classic engines ... in favor of EVs

Offbeat30 Oct 2024 | 207

Linus Torvalds: 90% of AI marketing is hype

Linux kernel creator says let's see which workloads use GenAI in five years

AI + ML29 Oct 2024 | 101

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

Removal of kernel maintainers linked to Russia attributed to sanctions

Software23 Oct 2024 | 262

Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice

Linux contributors told to sort out their grammar lest they be actively corrected

OSes08 Oct 2024 | 143

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs

Software19 Sep 2024 | 220

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest

Opinion From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel

Software09 Sep 2024 | 119

Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig

Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling

OSes16 Apr 2024 | 90

Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects

For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay

OSes11 Mar 2024 | 28

Linus Torvalds declares Linux 6.8 is probably back on track for a regular release cycle

Previously pondered the need for an extra release candidate

OSes04 Mar 2024 | 14

Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion

Kernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about 'inodes'

OSes29 Jan 2024 | 140

Linus Torvalds postpones Linux 6.8 merge window after being taken offline by storms

Roads are icy and drivers are dangerous. There will be no Starbucks run.

OSes15 Jan 2024 | 17

Linus Torvalds flags holiday-mode changes to next kernel merge window

Penguin emperor ponders whether kernel contributors will code across the festive season, or humbug it

OSes04 Dec 2023 |

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work

Removes references to the NSA, adds KSMBD in-kernel server SMB networking

OSes30 Oct 2023 | 21

Linus Torvalds couldn't find an excuse to hold back Linux 6.5, so here it is

Summer push proved less disruptive than feared

OSes28 Aug 2023 | 7

Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG

Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all

OSes31 Jul 2023 | 66

'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5

It might be the only non-boring thing about the release, which has Linus Torvalds celebrating

OSes31 Jul 2023 | 30

Linus Torvalds calls for calm as bcachefs filesystem doesn't make Linux 6.5

Expect the saga of this release to stretch out a bit over northern summer

Software10 Jul 2023 | 14

Linux 6.4 debuts after literally unremarkable development push

Latest cut of the kernel gets RISC-ier, moves towards Wi-Fi 7, ejects PCMCIA cards

OSes26 Jun 2023 | 9

Linux 6.3 debuts after 'nice, controlled release cycle'

Preps for Intel's Meteor Lake, improves support for Chinese RISC-V silicon, and gets to the starting line with a racing wheel

OSes24 Apr 2023 | 5

Linux kernel 6.3 on track for debut next week after ‘nice uneventful release cycle’

Which is just how Linus Torvalds wants it and who can argue after what he recommended you eat for Easter

OSes17 Apr 2023 | 6

Linus Torvalds releases 'pedestrian' Linux Kernel 6.2, urges testers to show it some love

Intel has as much to celebrate as anyone thanks the arc of progress catching up to its GPUs

OSes20 Feb 2023 | 2

'Merge window from Hell' opens as Linus Torvalds reveals Linux 6.1

Kernel boss won't consider code that's late, or hasn't already appeared in Linux-next, for version 6.2

OSes11 Dec 2022 | 4

Linux kernel 6.1: Rusty release could be a game-changer

Opinion Don't sob into your battered copy of K&R though, the shift will move slowly

OSes09 Dec 2022 | 53

Linux 6.1 gets an eighth release candidate and Linus Torvalds is OK with that

Kernel devs offer emperor penguin early gifts of code for version 6.2

OSes05 Dec 2022 |

Linus Torvalds to be 'more hard-nosed' as Linux 6.2 merge window meets Christmas

Predicts version 6.1 will need an eighth release candidate

OSes27 Nov 2022 | 9

Linus Torvalds suggests the 80486 architecture belongs in a museum, not the Linux kernel

Ancient hardware deserves ancient kernels, but cannot justify consuming developers' valuable time

Systems25 Oct 2022 | 162

Linus Torvalds to kernel devs: Grow up and stop pulling all-nighters just before deadline

Release candidate one for Linux 6.1 has appeared

OSes17 Oct 2022 | 52

Linus Torvalds's faulty memory (RAM, not wetware) slows kernel development

Emperor penguin swipes Intel's attitude to ECC memory and maybe wimpy Mac performance too

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 58

Linux kernel 6.0 debuts, Linus Torvalds teases ‘core new things’ coming in version 6.1

Linux boss' launch message is more ‘6.0 is overrated’ than ‘The joy of 6.0’

OSes02 Oct 2022 | 25

Linus Torvalds predicts Linux Kernel 6.0 debut next week, dispels fear of delays

Hails unusually smooth development process despite travel complications

OSes26 Sep 2022 |

Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference

Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update

OSes15 Aug 2022 | 16

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.19 – using Asahi on an Arm-powered Mac

Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform'

OSes31 Jul 2022 | 49

Torvalds: Linux kernel team has sorted Retbleed chip flaw

But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release

OSes17 Jul 2022 | 5

Linus Torvalds says Rust is coming to the Linux kernel 'real soon now'

Maintainer lack of familiarity won't be an issue, chief insists, citing his own bafflement when faced with Perl

OSes23 Jun 2022 | 63

Multiplatform Linux kernel 'pretty much done' says Linus Torvalds

Debuts version 5.19rc1, which includes HPE's next-gen server ASIC and much more

OSes06 Jun 2022 | 11

Linus Torvalds debuts 'boring old plain' Linux kernel 5.18

Adds 'feature activation' for Intel silicon, but Chipzilla still isn't saying what that means

OSes23 May 2022 | 36

Linux 5.17 debuts after 'very calm' extra week of work

Linus Torvalds suggests version 5.18 will be a little larger, hopefully also warm, fuzzy, low-drama

OSes20 Mar 2022 | 11

Linus Torvalds ponders limits of automation as kernel release delayed

Spectre-related weakness has made an eighth release candidate necessary

OSes14 Mar 2022 | 20

Linus Torvalds 'starting to get worried' as Linux kernel 5.17 rc6 lands

More by known regressions not being addressed by maintainers than Vladimir Putin’s ‘mental breakdown’

OSes28 Feb 2022 | 13

Red Hat signals Intel's software-defined silicon will debut in Linux 5.18

Silicon giant still not saying what it will mean in the real world

Systems14 Feb 2022 | 45

Desktop-deprived Linus Torvalds releases first release candidate of ‘not huge’ kernel 5.17

Life on the road increases reliance on cloudy tools instead of Emperor Penguin's preferred local tests

OSes24 Jan 2022 | 5

Test this new Linux kernel – but don’t forget Christmas or that you have a family, says Linus Torvalds

Confirms version 5.16 will receive an eighth release candidate

OSes20 Dec 2021 | 22