Warning: this article contains profanity. Linus Torvalds recently stepped away from kernel development temporarily in order to think about how to be less harsh with developers in certain situations.

According to an opinion piece by Tom Yager at Infoworld, Apple has closed the source of the Intel version of the Mac OS X kernel (called XNU) due to ...

Part of this is probably due to it being an open source version and continuation of the Be Operating System (BeOS). Despite its strong feature set in the 1990s, BeOS never got much love in the ...