Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'

25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds | Linux Journal

Linux Journal's very first issue featured an interview between LJ's first Publisher, Robert Young (who went on to co-found Red Hat among other things), and Linus Torvalds (author of the Linux kernel). After 25 years, we thought it'd be interesting to get the two of them together again. You can read that first interview from 1994 here.

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Distributions are becoming irrelevant: difference was our strength and our liability

For someone that has spent the past thirteen years defining himself as a developer of a Linux distribution…

Linux Took Over the Web. Now, It's Taking Over the World

25 years after Linus Torvalds unveiled Linux, the free operating system is still finding new uses.

Gecko. Mozilla. Thoughts.

We want Gecko to be a BSD, but I fear it’s soon to be a dead Unix..

Panat on Twitter / X

yeah we use linux at the bookstore how could u tell pic.twitter.com/VpaFPWz75S— Panat (@ptaranat) October 4, 2026

Are Linux and Open Source Un-American? | Linux Journal

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

‘The Internet Sucks.’ Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It | The Tyee

The digital savant on ‘enshittification,’ how ‘twiddlers’ secretly rip us off, powering down Big Tech and more. A Tyee interview.

You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

I woke up this morning to a comment on the first post in the 'I Want to Love Linux' series. Congratulations, random internet user: you earned a full-length blog post in response. Not because you're special, but because your comment is the perfect storm of everything that’s wrong with the self-righteous, gatekeeping corner of this ecosystem—the part that cloaks cruelty in the language of freedom, then acts shocked when people stop showing up.

Open Source Startup: Why We Give Away All Our IP 🐝

Interview with Richard D. Bartlett, Loomio cofounder. Reposted with permission from Straight Up, a monthly startup resource that tackles…

Peter Molyneux Interview: "I haven’t got a reputation in this industry any more"

We speak to Peter Molyneux about Godus, Kickstarter, and his career of overpromising.

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Interlude – A Thank You, Where It’s Due — fireborn

This blog series has been a lot of yelling. Rightfully so—because a lot of Linux is broken. But this post? This one's different.

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access — fireborn

Welcome back to "I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back." In this post, we’re stepping into the part of Linux that everyone says “just works” — the console. The raw, text-only interface you drop into when X dies, the GUI fails, or you're installing a system from scratch.

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015) | Hacker News

Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths. The more power available to someone installing themselves at the centre of an elite clique that runs the organisation, the more attractive it is. No-one ever sees it fully until they get on the wrong end of one of these toxic power dynamics, there is so much subtle BS working against anyone trying to face this stuff down that it's almost pointless wasting your life trying.