Linus Torvalds was a student at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He wanted to create an academic version of Unix OS for free. Linus began writing the code. Later his very own operating system ...

In this interview, Linux Journal chats with Robert Love, the principal maintainer of an increasingly popular kernel-preemption patch that improves the real-time responsiveness of the Linux kernel.

This is the first installment in a three-part series, presenting a detailed look at the current state of opinions on matters of the Linux kernel. The free and open source software community is known ...