* 1991 – Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.

Linus Torvalds on the other hand said in a 2007 mailing list post that as a matter of policy, the development team preferred more incremental changes.

Raymond also coined an aphorism he dubbed " Linus ' Law ", inspired by Linus Torvalds: " Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow ", that first appeared in The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

* " The Curse of the Gifted ", from email exchange with Linus Torvalds, 2000

The two most prominent people attached to the movement, Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds, may be seen as representatives of the value based versus apolitical philosophies, as well as the Gnu versus Linux coding styles.

( For example, " Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is considered by some to be a hacker.

Members of the media sometimes seem unaware of the distinction, grouping legitimate " hackers " such as Linus Torvalds and Steve Wozniak along with criminal " crackers ".

Certainly major contributors to computer science such as Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth, as well as the inventors of popular software such as Linus Torvalds ( Linux ), and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson ( the C programming language ) are likely to be included in any such list ; see also List of programmers.

Himanen explained these ideas in a book, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, with a prologue contributed by Linus Torvalds and an epilogue by Manuel Castells.

Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (; born December 28, 1969 ) is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel.

Torvalds was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning American chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, " I think I was named equally for Linus the Peanuts cartoon character ", noting that this makes him half " Nobel-prize-winning chemist " and half " blanket-carrying cartoon character ".

Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds ( née Monni )— a six-time Finnish national karate champion — whom he first met in the autumn of 1993.

* Linus Torvalds and His Five Entrepreneurial Lessons

* Linus Torvalds: Linux succeed thanks to selfishness and trust

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In 1953 Cotten created the role of Linus Larrabee, Jr., in the original 1953 Broadway production of Sabrina Fair.

In 1861, Linus Yale, Jr. was inspired by the original 1840s pin-tumbler lock designed by his father, thus inventing and patenting a smaller flat key with serrated edges as well as pins of varying lengths within the lock itself, the same design of the pin-tumbler lock which still remains in use today.

In an example from the early development of the Linux operating system ( noted for publishing its complete source code ), Linus Torvalds, the original author, received hundreds of thousands of patches from many programmers to apply against his original version.

The distributors together appealed against the original trademark assignment and had it reassigned to Linus Torvalds.

Prior to that, he filled the role of " Linus " in the original off-Broadway production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown in 1967.

Linus decides to do some investigating, and discovers that Lila is Snoopy's original owner ; Charlie Brown faints upon hearing this.

A limited independent release that had a trance remix by Lenny " Linus " Douglas and freestyle remixes by Russ Castella and Randy Taylor-Weber, the original writer / producer of " In a Dream ".

In the original storyline, Linus blows the election ( and Charlie's bid for Vice President ) after bringing up The Great Pumpkin in his final speech and being laughed off stage – again after leading in the polls at the time.

The two-part webisode, entitled " Linus for President / The Election ," followed the original comic strip segments rather than the TV special.

It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown was the last Peanuts special to feature original music composed by Vince Guaraldi, who was best known for the Peanuts ' signature tune, " Linus and Lucy.

* Linus Torvalds ( born 1969 ), programmer, creator of the Linux kernel

The first issue was published in March 1994 by Phil Hughes and Bob Young, co-founder of Red Hat, and featured an interview with Linux creator Linus Torvalds.

Figures who have supported the campaign against software patents in Europe include Tim Berners-Lee, developer of the World Wide Web, and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel.

Commercial acceptance of the Linux family of operating systems got a major boost following a 1999 appearance by its creator, Linus Torvalds.

* Linus: A penguin who accompanied Gav during his exile in Antarctica ; Gav named him after Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.

To illustrate potential problems with this approach, the book cited the case of Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.

Keynote speakers have included Linux creator Linus Torvalds, One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte, and Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig.

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, once described it as " a complete design disaster in every way " in relation to his view that " modern PCs are horrible ".

Some winners of the award include Larry Page and Sergey Brin ( founders of Google ), Linus Torvalds ( creator of Linux ), Jerry Yang ( co-founder of Yahoo!

The design principles Tanenbaum applied to MINIX greatly influenced the design decisions Linus Torvalds applied in the creation of the Linux kernel.

The second part, Linux, refers to the underlying Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds and associated open source software.

Linus Torvalds has attributed his eventually inventing and developing the Linux kernel in part to his having owned a Sinclair QL in the 1980s.

* In 1991, development of the free Linux kernel is started by Linus Torvalds in Finland.

Raymond credits Linus Torvalds, leader of the Linux kernel project, as the inventor of this process.

Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.

* Linus Benedict Torvalds, developer of the Linux kernel

Bearded throwback to the sixties, hacker Richard Stallman serves as the movement's spiritual leader while Scandinavian Linus Torvalds acts as its mild mannered chief engineer ( as developer of the Linux kernel ).

The Linux kernel, started independently by Linus Torvalds in 1991, filled the last gap, and Linux version 0. 12 was released under the GPL in 1992.

Some of the " more prominent organizations " involved in OSS development include the Apache Software Foundation, creators of the Apache web server ; a loose affiliation of developers headed by Linus Torvalds, creators of the Linux operating system kernel ; the Eclipse Foundation, home of the Eclipse software development platform ; the Debian Project, creators of the influential Debian GNU / Linux distribution ;