Although Torvalds believes " open source is the only right way to do software ", he also has said that he uses the " best tool for the job ", even if that includes proprietary software.

Time magazine has recognized Torvalds multiple times:

In 2006, Business 2. 0 magazine named him one of " 10 people who don't matter " because the growth of Linux has shrunk Torvalds ' individual impact.

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

** Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp. os. minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

De Raadt has been criticized for having a somewhat abrasive personality: in his book, Free For All, Peter Wayner claims that de Raadt " began to rub some people the wrong way " before the split from NetBSD ; while Linus Torvalds has described him as " difficult "; and an interviewer admits to being " apprehensive " before meeting him.

" Torvalds also wrote during the 1992 Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate that, " As has been noted ( not only by me ), the linux kernel is a miniscule part of a complete system ".

Git has a much stronger focus on high performance, inspired by the lengthy history and demanding distributed modes of collaboration used by Torvalds and the other Linux kernel authors.

Linus ( named for Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux project ): has a Fonera router, shares Wi-Fi and gets free roaming at others ' Fon Spots.

English has a rich technical vocabulary ( largely because native and non-native speakers alike use it to communicate technical ideas ) and many IT and technical professionals use English regardless of country of origin ( Linus Torvalds, for instance, comments his code in English, despite being from Finland and having Swedish as his first language ).

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.

Torvalds remains the final authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

Linus Torvalds, the original creator of Linux ( a popular operating system kernel ), was once pecked by a Little Penguin while on holiday in Australia.

Because of the commercial failure of the machine and lack of support, particularly in Finland, Torvalds became very used to having to write his own software rather than relying on programs written by others.

Torvalds was a candidate for European Parliament election in 2009 on the Swedish People's Party list.

Other claims to fame are the founding of the SANE Conferences organization and the fact that the NLUUG was the first organisation to have Linus Torvalds be a speaker on a conference outside Finland.

The film also documents the scope of the first full-scale LinuxWorld Summit conference, with appearances by Linus Torvalds and Larry Augustin on the keynote stage.

An earlier comment by Torvalds on the naming controversy was:

The Linux Mark Institute ( LMI ) is an organization which administers the " Linux " trademark on behalf of Linus Torvalds for computer software which includes the Linux kernel, computer hardware utilizing Linux-based software, and for services associated with the implementation and documentation of Linux-based products.

The book claims that Linus Torvalds used source code taken from Minix, a small Unix-like operating system used in teaching computer science, to create Linux 0. 01, on the theory that no mere student could write an entire Unix-like kernel single-handedly — although writing a kernel of similar size and capabilities is a standard part of many computer science degrees.

" In the western scientific tradition we stand on the shoulders of giants ," says Young, echoing both Torvalds and Sir Isaac Newton before him.

As Torvalds would later put it: " I had hoisted myself up on the shoulders of giants.

Samizdat claims that Linus Torvalds used source code taken from Minix, a small Unix-like operating system used in teaching computer science, to create Linux 0. 01, on the theory that no mere student could write an entire Unix-like kernel single-handedly.

When Linus Torvalds first started writing his Linux operating system kernel ( 1991 ), he was working on a machine running MINIX, so the initial releases based a lot of functionality on Minix subsystems.

In a post on the Linux kernel mailing list, Torvalds praised Monotone and disparaged Subversion ( and by extension, all client-server version-control systems ):

The new name they chose was " open source ", and quickly Bruce Perens, publisher Tim O ' Reilly, Linus Torvalds, and others signed on to the rebranding.

Previously, debugging was performed by using procfs to export a device tree, but under urging from Linus Torvalds, it was converted to use a new filesystem based on ramfs.

* October 2004 interview with Linus Torvalds on commercial potential of Linux software

Reportedly, this encounter encouraged Torvalds to select Tux as the official Linux mascot.

Morton maintains a Linux kernel patchset known as the mm tree, which contains work-in-progress patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by Linus Torvalds.

However, Torvalds thought KDE Plasma Desktop 4. 0 was a " disaster " because of its lack of maturity, so he switched to GNOME.

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

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 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.

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.

Both Himanen and Torvalds were inspired by the Sampo in Finnish mythology.

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 born in Helsinki, Finland.

He is the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds, and the grandson of poet Ole Torvalds.

Torvalds attended the University of Helsinki between 1988 and 1996, graduating with a master's degree in computer science from NODES research group.

After a visit to Transmeta in late 1996, Torvalds accepted a position at the company in California, where he would work from February 1997 until June 2003.

In June 2004, Torvalds and his family moved to Portland, Oregon, to be closer to the OSDL's Beaverton, Oregon – based headquarters.

In 1999 Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.

That same year both companies went public and Torvalds ' share value temporarily shot up to roughly $ 20 million.

However, Torvalds subsequently wrote a free-software replacement for BitKeeper called Git.

Initially, Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax ( a combination of " free ", " freak ", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system ), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds ' directory linux.