VIENNA In a candid keynote chat at the Linux Foundation 's Open Source Summit Europe , Linux creator Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on kernel development, the integration of Rust , and the future of open source. Dirk Hohndel, Verizon's Open Source Program Office head and Torvalds friend, moderated their conversation about the Linux ecosystem. Torvalds emphasized that kernel releases, like the recent 6.11 version , are intentionally not exciting. For almost 15 years, we've h