Linus Torvalds
Programmer, Public speaker
1969 –
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Who is Linus Torvalds?
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator. He also created the revision control system Git as well as the diving log software Subsurface. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".
Famous Quotes:
- I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
- Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
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- Born
- Dec 28, 1969
Helsinki - Also known as
- Linus Benedict Torvalds
- Parents
- Spouses
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Swedish-speaking population of Finland
- Nationality
- Finland
- Profession
- Education
- Master's Degree, University of Helsinki
Computer Science
(1988 - 1996)
- Master's Degree, University of Helsinki
- Employment
- Fellow, Linux Foundation
- Lived in
- Helsinki
- Portland
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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