Linus Torvalds
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- Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe2 editions2017–2019
- Open Source Summit North America2 editions2017–2018
- LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China2 editions2017–2018
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- Dirk Hohndel30 talks
- Jonathan Corbet15 talks
- Greg Kroah-Hartman36 talks
- Jan Kiszka24 talks
- Jon Corbet5 talks
- Tim Bird57 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel | Open Source Summit India 2026 | 2026-06-16 |
Linux 7.1 ships as steady incremental progress on a strict 9–10 week release cadence, with the merge window handled as roughly 200 merges in two weeks and a… | ||
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel | Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 | 2025-12-08 |
Kernel 6.18 ships as the next LTS after a two week merge window followed by seven weeks of bug fixes in a nine week cadence. Merges average about 12,000… | ||
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel | Open Source Summit Korea 2025 | 2025-11-04 |
Covers concrete claims about kernel evolution: maintenance is the ongoing work after 35-year project status, occasional removal of components (only a handful… | ||
| Linus Torvalds in Conversation with Dirk Hohndel | Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
Linux ships on a nine‑week cadence with a recent 6.1 release and about 10–15k commits per release, most of them new or fixed hardware support since drivers… | ||
| OSS Keynotes - Day 2 Afternoon Sessions | Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference + OSPOCon 2021 | 2021-09-27 |
30 years of Linux history, the kernel stays pragmatic: Rust kernel modules are trialed for safer drivers, a build policy treats new compiler warnings as… | ||
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel | Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019 | 2019-10-28 |
Release 5.4 shows a late surge of patches after a quiet start and a weird filesystem change causes platform-specific boot hangs that land in the 5.4 cycle… | ||
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VMware | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 | 2019-06-24 |
Linux development runs on a tight three‑month cadence with the tree currently at 5.2-rc6, about 1,500 contributors and roughly ~30 million lines of code… | ||
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 | 2019-06-24 |
Announces that Linux follows a roughly three‑month release cadence with 5.2-rc6 arriving unusually large, usually finishing at rc7; each release aggregates… | ||
| Keynote: Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel, VP | Open Source Summit North America 2018 | 2018-08-29 |
Kernel development follows a two-week merge window and then a stabilization period; 4.19 suffers multiple hardware speculative-execution bugs (January, May… | ||
| Linus Torvalds in conversation with Dirk Hohndel | LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2018 | 2018-06-25 |
Release 4.18 goes out after a steady 15‑year process with 418 RC, about 1500 contributors and roughly 100 maintainers, and this cycle removes more lines than… | ||
| Keynote: in a Conversation with | Open Source Summit Europe + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2017 | 2017-10-23 |
Kernel development uses a two‑week merge window two weeks then weekly release candidates, typically seven RCs and a final release (about every 2.5 months), but… | ||
| Keynote: A Conversation with Linux and Git Creator Linus Torvalds | Open Source Summit North America 2017 | 2017-09-11 |
Kernel development runs on a steady cadence and releases every three months from a home office in Portland, with the creator noting Linux powers billions of… | ||
| Linus Torvalds, Creator of Linux & Git, in conversation with Dirk Hohndel | LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China 2017 | 2017-06-19 |
Kernel 4.12 ships as 4.12-rc6 release timing shifts because an embargoed userland security fix forces a Monday-night workaround, showing the weekly release… | ||
| Keynote: Dirk Hohndel, VP, VMware, in Conversation with Linux Creator Linus Torvalds | Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit North America 2017 | 2017-02-21 |
Kernel development runs on a steady 10-week release cadence with code merged when ready rather than pinned to promises, and 4.9 turns out to be the largest… | ||
| A Conversation with Linus Torvalds | Open Source Leadership Summit 2017 | 2017-02-14 |
Kernel development runs at scale: roughly 10,000 lines added 8,000 removed 18,800 modified per day, code is organized into modules with maintainership chains… | ||
| Keynote: Dirk Hohndel in conversation with Linux Creator Linus Torvalds | LinuxCon + ContainerCon North America 2016 | 2016-08-22 |
Kernel status note: 4.8 RC3 is a routine release while the 4.9 merge window already contains low level rework; the project grows from ~10,000 lines to 17… | ||
| Linux: Where Are We Going | LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2014 | 2014-10-13 |
Discussion states the kernel is on a rapid merge cadence with roughly 10,000 patches per release from over a thousand contributors, most releases landing on a… | ||
| Linux Kernel Developer Panel | LinuxCon + CloudOpen North America 2014 | 2014-08-20 |
Panel reports concrete work: Kselftest consolidated tests and four new syscalls each with a man page and a test shipped; syscall auditing once crashed machines… | ||
| Linus Torvalds Interviewed on Stage at LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2013 | LinuxCon + CloudOpen Europe 2013 | 2013-10-21 |
Kernel releases run on a merge window cadence roughly every ten weeks, with 3.12 arriving in about a week, and the process prioritizes readiness over feature… | ||
| Linux Kernel Panel | LinuxCon & CloudOpen North America 2013 | 2013-09-16 |
Roundtable covers kernel priorities and practice: USB3 and power work drives wins for data centers, cgroups and resource management aim for usable upstream… | ||
| The State of the Linux Kernel Panel | LinuxCon North America 2012 | 2012-08-29 |
Panel reports Linux kernel has ~3,000 contributors with about 85 maintainers at the summit, and survives personnel changes by routing around people. Recent… | ||
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