Linux creator says BSOD blame lands on flaky rigs, not code

Linus Torvalds has ended up defending Microsoft’s much-mocked blue-screen-of-death screens. However, his argument has less to do with software quality and everything to do with dodgy hardware in the hands of punters.

Linux boss blames autocorrect for typo mayhem

IT's Mr Sweary, Linus Torvalds has binned his low-profile keyboard and rejoined the noisy mechanical brigade.

Torvalds flushes ancient x86 silicon down the kernel loo

The Linux kernel is finally putting the 486 processor out of its misery, ending decades of backward compatibility that even Microsoft ditched with Windows XP back in 2001.

Hdrtest backlash as DRM update hits kernel

IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds has blasted Troubled Chipzilla’s “hdrtest” feature.

Theoretical attacks

The IT industry’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds is finding himself vexed by hardware vendors with poor security and the plethora of actual and theoretical attacks.

Unlikely Apple Fanboy of the Year 

Linus Torvalds has praised the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on Apple gear for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers and says he wants an Apple mac now.

Old one out-of-date, but this one goes to 11

Linus Torvalds is about to shift Linux from a version of C which is so old it was written before the fall of the Soviet Union – C89.

Apple fanboy dismayed he will not join the cult

IT’s Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds appears to have disappointed an Apple fanboy interviewer by playing down Apple’s new ARM64 chips.

Borked, must have been on the open sauce when he let it through 

The IT industry’s Mr Sweary has warned punters not to use the 5.12-rc1 kernel in his public git tree.

It is not nice to say “I hope it dies a painful death”

Intel has replied to  Linus Torvalds comments that he hoped “AVX512 dies a painful death" and “Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks that they can look good on"'