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A modern world: the case for software freedom
A modern world: the case for software freedom

It’s been proven time and time again that the strongest solutions come from ideas that are shared, reworked and iterated upon among groups of curious minds

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  • 21 September 2020
Linus Torvalds dismisses 'anti-Microsoft stuff', claims Microsoft is now 'much friendlier' towards Linux
Linus Torvalds dismisses 'anti-Microsoft stuff', claims Microsoft is now 'much friendlier' towards Linux

Microsoft first announced its love for Linux in 2015 shortly after Satya Nadella became CEO

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  • 08 October 2019
Optional 'lockdown' security feature approved for Linux Kernel 5.4
Optional 'lockdown' security feature approved for Linux Kernel 5.4

The new feature will prevent high-privileged accounts from interfering with kernel code

  • Security
  • 30 September 2019
From maverick to mainstream: why open source software is now indispensable for modern business
From maverick to mainstream: why open source software is now indispensable for modern business

Older, more established ways of doing things simply don't measure up any longer

  • Open Source
  • 10 September 2019
Linus Torvalds apologises for 'unprofessional' rants over Linux
Linus Torvalds apologises for 'unprofessional' rants over Linux

Torvalds' blunt but entertaining emails likely to become a thing of the past

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  • 17 September 2018
Linus Torvalds attacks AMD security report - claims security researchers 'look like clowns'
Linus Torvalds attacks AMD security report - claims security researchers 'look like clowns'

Linus Torvalds: AMD CPU security report is "garbage" and the security industry a "circus"

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  • 15 March 2018
How open source software took over the world
How open source software took over the world

Open source software now dominates vast swathes of computing

  • Open Source
  • 11 July 2017
Linus Torvalds rejected security warnings about SHA1 in 2005
Linus Torvalds rejected security warnings about SHA1 in 2005

Free software evangelist John Gilmore to Torvalds in 2005: "SHA1 has been broken..."

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  • 27 February 2017
ARM versus Intel? No contest, says Linus Torvalds
ARM versus Intel? No contest, says Linus Torvalds

Intel x86 still Torvalds' "favourite architecture"

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  • 10 October 2016
Torvalds goes ballistic over bug in freshly released Linux Kernel 4.8
Torvalds goes ballistic over bug in freshly released Linux Kernel 4.8

"Yes, I'm grumpy," admits Torvalds

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  • 05 October 2016
Linus Torvalds in expletive-ridden rant over comment syntax
Linus Torvalds in expletive-ridden rant over comment syntax

Torvalds tipped over the edge by 'brain-damaged stupid' comments style

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  • 11 July 2016
Backbytes: Open-source developers targeted in honeytraps, claims Eric Raymond
Backbytes: Open-source developers targeted in honeytraps, claims Eric Raymond

'Deliberately planned and persistent campaign to frame Linus and feed him to an outrage mob' - Raymond

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  • 04 November 2015
The Linux Foundation: How to fix the internet
The Linux Foundation: How to fix the internet

Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, also says the future is basically a software-defined data centre, and concludes by saying open source developers are 'like poets'

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  • 09 October 2015
Microsoft has quietly made its own version of Linux and it's called Azure Cloud Switch
Microsoft has quietly made its own version of Linux and it's called Azure Cloud Switch

A far cry from the Linux as 'cancer' days, Steve…

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  • 21 September 2015
Microsoft may love Linux now, but can Hadoop vendors ever kiss and make up?
Microsoft may love Linux now, but can Hadoop vendors ever kiss and make up?

IT vendors commonly co-operate to standardise platforms these days, but Cloudera and MapR say a firm 'no' to Hortonworks' ODP collaboration

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  • 27 April 2015
Backbytes: Everyone should learn to code? Don't be stupid, says Torvalds
Backbytes: Everyone should learn to code? Don't be stupid, says Torvalds

Seriously, basic coding isn't like basic reading, writing and 'rithmatic, argues the Finnish genius

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  • 10 June 2014
Linus Torvalds interview, part three: 'All my daughter wanted for Christmas was a polymerase chain reaction machine'
Linus Torvalds interview, part three: 'All my daughter wanted for Christmas was a polymerase chain reaction machine'

In the final part of a three-part interview, Linux creator and Millennium Technology Prize winner Linus Torvalds talks about the new frontiers of technology - and the 'benefits' of his own 'cult of personality'

  • Open Source
  • 04 January 2013
Linus Torvalds interview, part two: Linux and the future of computing
Linus Torvalds interview, part two: Linux and the future of computing

In the second part of a three-part interview, Linux creator and Millennium Technology Prize winner Linus Torvalds talks about real-world Linux and looks into the future

  • Open Source
  • 17 December 2012
Linus Torvalds interview, part one: From VIC-20 to Raspberry Pi
Linus Torvalds interview, part one: From VIC-20 to Raspberry Pi

In the first part of a three-part interview, Linus Torvalds talks about how he got Linux off the ground, the 'marketing' of Linux and Raspberry Pi. First published in 2012.

  • Open Source
  • 11 December 2012
'Abolish software patents,' says Linus Torvalds
'Abolish software patents,' says Linus Torvalds

'Broken' US system doles out bad patents, encouraging 'suicidal behaviour'

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  • 23 October 2012

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