Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator. Linus was inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a capable Unix-like operating system that could be run on a PC. Linux now also runs on many other architectures.
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LinusTorvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Portland, Oregon is the unlikely capital of a global software revolution. The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? LinusTorvalds, the reclusive founder of Linux. cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/05/18/global.office.linustorvalds/i...
Leader of the Free World
How LinusTorvalds became benevolent dictator of Planet Linux, the biggest collaborative project in history. www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus_pr.html
"Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. "
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code. "
"I think I was named equally for Linus the peanut-cartoon character"
"open source is the only right way to do software"
"Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. "