Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the second released candidate for the Linux 3.7 kernel series.
Linux kernel 3.7 RC2 comes with a lot of new features, according to Linus Torvalds. Among the listed changes, we find that now the "uapi" includes file cleanups.
Linus Torvalds warned us that a... (read more)
On March 17, Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability of the third release candidate in the 3.9 branch of the Linux kernel. According to Linus Torvalds, this latest version of Linux kernel is not big and implements a regular number of changes and improvements. “Not as small as -rc2, but that on... (read more)
On January 9, Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the third release candidate for the Linux 3.8.x kernel series.
The development process is going back to a normal pace or at least this is what Linus Torvalds has told us in the announcement for the latest Linux kernel, 3.8 RC3.
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Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the third released candidate for the Linux 3.7 kernel series. According to Linus Torvalds, this new release candidate for the Linux kernel 3.7.x branch holds nothing extraordinary, with just a few memory leak fixes in USB serial drivers and some other stuff.
Linus Torvalds was invited to speak at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, and has an interesting position regarding the increasing complexity of the Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel has gotten bigger over the years and some parts of it are now so complicated that only a handful of people understand it.
Linus Torvalds has announced the immediate availability of the fifth release candidate in the 3.9 branch of the Linux kernel.
It seems that not even Easter could stop Linus Torvalds from launching yet another release candidate. The development for the latest version of the Linux kernel must go on.
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Most years, Linus Torvalds comes to Australia. He apparently likes the place, so the creator of the Linux kernel makes his way to the Australian national Linux conference in January.
Yesterday, Linus Torvalds announced the release of the final stable version Linux 3.0. With the release of Linux 3.0, Torvalds has finally brought Linux out of the 2.6.x series, which had been in development for more than seven years.Linux 3.0 was actually planned for release in the second week of July, but a bug with the RCU meant that he had to release another RC instead.
Gnome 3 doesn't have too many fans among power users and when the father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, speaks out against Gnome 3 and switches to Xfce, it doesn't look good. Linus believes that Gnome 3 has serious usability issues.
"I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was 'too complicated' for the user to remap some... (read more)