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Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds and Linux kernel development: release notes, opinions and his views on the industry.

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Microsoft Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion and Has Been Slowly Wrecking It Ever Since

Microsoft Bought GitHub for $7.5 Billion and Has Been Slowly Wrecking It Ever Since

Linus built Git in 10 days. GitHub became where open source lives. Then Microsoft paid $7.5B, killed Atom, trained Copilot on your code, corrupted main branches with a merge queue bug, and folded the whole thing into CoreAI. Here's the full story.

Linux 7.0 RC6 Is Busier Than It Should Be, and Torvalds Isn't Happy About It

Linux 7.0 RC6 Is Busier Than It Should Be, and Torvalds Isn't Happy About It

Linux 7.0 RC6 landed with more fixes than Torvalds wants to see this late in the cycle, and RC5's calm turned out to be a mirage. He's not panicking yet — but he's also not making promises about the release date, and he suspects better AI coding tools might be partly responsible for the noise.