Longtime programmer Jonathan Corbet tells the story of Linux and reveals what's made it successful over its three decades.

Nobody wants memory bugs. Penguinistas continue debate on how to squish 'em Updated Some Linux kernel maintainers remain unconvinced that adding Rust code to the open source project is a good idea ...

After two decades of dedicated development, the "PREEMPT_RT" patch set for real-time Linux has finally been integrated into the main kernel code, receiving approval from Linus Torvalds ...

Linus Torvalds would accept code for programming the kernel in Rust, even if the maintainer of the relevant part of Linux blocked its inclusion. However, the founder and lead developer of the ...