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Torvalds replied, "It's much easier to find developers; we have a lot of developers. Some people think that you have to be a superdeveloper who can do everything to be a maintainer, but that's not actually true." Also: Linux might be your best bet for heightening your desktop computer security"To be a maintainer," Torvalds continued, "You have to have a certain amount of good taste to judge other people's code. Some of that may be innate, but a lot of it just takes practice. You must be able to look at other people's…

Canadian tech YouTuber Linus Sebastian announced he was stepping down Thursday as CEO at Linus Media Group, a privately held entertainment company he owns and operates with his wife. Known for his popular “Tech Tips” channel, Sebastian announced the change will take effect July 1. His departure means he will no longer be the chief executive officer for Linus Media Group, Floatplane Media and Creator Warehouse, but he said he will assume the role of chief vision officer. In his video announcing the structural…

After unlisted content began appearing on the account following the breach, LinusTechTips has now been scrubbed from YouTube completely.Screenshot: GizmodoFamed YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has been hacked and destroyed. The gadget review channel with over 15 million subscribers was spewing Elon Musk-themed crypto scams earlier this morning, but now appears to be completely pulled from the platform.As Dextero reports, Linus Tech Tips was officially hacked as of this morning, with the new puppet master renaming the…

Photo: Steven Henry (Getty Images)Buddy the elf traveled across “the seven levels of the candy cane forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops, and then ... through the Lincoln Tunnel” to find his dad after the man who raised him, Papa Elf, tells him he was adopted.When he finally finds Walter, his birth father and the editor of a highly successful New York City book publisher, chaos ensues. Although Buddy’s interests are considered widely unpopular, such as living off the elves’ four main food groups, candy,…

Image: Amanda Lucier/For The Washington Post via Getty ImagesLinus Torvalds on Sunday announced the availability of Linux kernel 6.1 stable, the first version to bring initial Rust infrastructure, and says he's "much happier" about its state than he was a few weeks ago.In October, during a Linux 6.1 release candidate, Torvalds complained about kernel developers submitting code at the last minute, comparing their submissions to students who "do an all-nighter to get the paper in the day before the deadline".  While…

IntelYou can famously run Linux on anything. And, when I say anything, I mean anything, e.g. a Nintendo Wii, an iPod, DeLaval's robotic system for milking cows, and possibly even a dead badger. Only Doom may have been ported to more devices. But, for practical purposes, all good things must come to an end, so Linus Torvalds is giving serious thought to discontinuing support for the 486 architecture.Why? Well, why do you think?486s are old. Very, very old. Intel discontinued the 386 chip family in 2007. True, some…

Image: Amanda Lucier for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesLinus Torvalds has announced the version 6.1 release candidate for the Linux kernel, and added a stern message to developers: stop submitting code at the last minute. This release isn't that big, Torvalds noted, as it only features 11,500 non-merge commits during the merge window, versus 13,500 last time. But he's been dealing with hardware problems while getting the infrastructure set up for developers to use the Rust programming language for updating the…

For most people, hardware problems and slow deliveries annoy them. But if you're the person behind the operating system that underpins much of the cloud, Android and IoT, your problem could easily become a problem for lots of other people too.Linux creator Linus Torvalds told a kernel contributor on Sunday that he's doing merges "very slowly" from one of his laptops as he waits for "new ECC memory DIMMS to arrive".ECC refers to "Error-correcting code" memory that's designed to prevent certain styles of attacks. As for…

Getty Images/Nitat TermmeeLinus Torvalds has announced the stable release of Linux 6.0 but flagged it doesn't contain the "core new things" coming in Linux 6.1. Since the first release candidate (rc1) for Linux 6.0 in August, Torvalds has played down the meaning of the major version number change, which would have otherwise been 5.20. While has called 6.0 a "fairly sizable release", he also said at conference last month "I wanted 6.0 to be boring."  As he wrote on Sunday in an update: "So, as is hopefully clear to…

Image: Linus Torvalds/TED/YouTubeThe Rust in Linux debate is over. The implementation has begun. In an email conversation, Linux's creator Linus Torvalds, told me, "Unless something odd happens, it will make it into 6.1."The Rust programming language entering the Linux kernel has been coming for some time. At the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference, developers started considering using the Rust language for new Linux inline code. Google, which supports Rust for developing Android -- itself a Linux distro -- began pushing…