Linus Torvalds, creator and chief maintainer of the Linux kernel is moving on, ending a six year association with chip company Transmeta.

"I've decided to take a leave-of-absense after 6+ years at Transmeta to actually work full-time on the kernel," he wrote in a posting (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105582488418497&w=2) to the kernel mailing list.

Larry Augustin has found a sponsor in the shape of OSDL, the non-profit Open Source Development Lab whose own sponsors are listed here (http://www.osdl.org/sponsors/).

"Transmeta has always been very good at letting me spend even an inordinate amount of time on Linux, but as a result I've been feeling a little guilty at just how little "real work" I got done lately. To fix that, I'll instead be working at OSDL, finally actually doing Linux as my main job." ®

"I'm very pleased that we were able to create a place where Linus will be able to work full time on the kernel," said Augustin. ®

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