Linux at 25: Linus Torvalds on the evolution and future of Linux

The last time I had the occasion to interview Linus Torvalds, it was 2004, and version 2.6 of the Linux kernel had been recently released. I was working on a feature titled “Linux v2.6 scales the enterprise.” The opening sentence was “If commercial Unix vendors weren’t already worried about Linux, they should be now.” How prophetic those words turned out to be.
More than 12 years later -- several lifetimes in the computing world -- Linux can be found in every corne