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Linus Torvalds in Helsinki for Chance at Finnish Tech Glory
Linus Torvalds is in Helsinki today, vying for a million-dollar prize and a whole bunch of hometown recognition.
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Question: What do Linux and stem cell research have in common? Answer: They’re both considered “life-enhancing technical innovations” by the Technology Acadamy Finland, a foundation that is awarding a...
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Linus Torvalds Gives Nvidia the Finger. Literally
Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't happy with Nvidia. And he wants you to know it. Late last week, at a hacker meetup in Finland, Torvalds laid into Nvidia, calling it "the single worst company" the...
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Nvidia Responds to F-Bomb From Linus Torvalds
Linux creator Linus Torvalds may call Nvidia “the single worst company” the Linux community has ever dealt with. But the chipmaker makes no apologies for its approach to the open source operating system.
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The Inside Story of the Extra Second That Crashed the Web
The "leap second" crash -- which hit several web operations on Saturday evening -- can be traced to a single glitch in the Linux operating system. Here's the inside story on what happened.
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Storage | Linus Torvalds Compares Hard Disks to Satan
Linus Torvalds -- creator of the Linux open source operating system -- is a man of strong opinions. Last March, he called the makers of SUSE Linux "morons" because of the way they handle security on...
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History | The Legacy of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, and One Giant Flamethrower
Linus Torvalds created Linux, which now runs vast swathes of the internet, including Google and Facebook. And he invented Git, software that's now used by developers across the net to build new...
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History | The Greatest Hacker T-Shirts This Planet Has Ever Seen
It was a hacker conference, so just about everyone was wearing a T-shirt. And most of the T-shirts had something to say.
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Why This Hacker Stood Up Against ‘Verbal Abuse’ in Linux Land
When Sarah Sharp was a 20-year-old university student in Portland, she took on an extra-credit project writing USB driver code for the Linux kernel. She was too young to stay past 10 p.m. in some of...
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Linux Seeks Help From More (And More Diverse) Coders
Linus Torvalds and Intel developer Sarah Sharp met face-to-face on Wednesday, their first public encounter since their mailing list contretemps over the way Torvalds treats people who work on Linux,...
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