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 has commented on official GNOME developmental mailing lists that, in terms of desktop environments, he encourages users to switch to K Desktop Environment 3.

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.

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.

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 ):

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.

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

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

On April 20, 2012, Torvalds was declared one of two winners of that year's Millennium Technology Prize, together with Shinya Yamanaka for what is widely described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in the technology field.

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

Media sources frequently make erroneous statements such as claiming that the entire Linux operating system ( rather than simply the kernel ) was written from scratch by Torvalds in 1991 ; that Torvalds directs the development of other components such as graphical interfaces or the GNU tools ; or that new releases of the kernel involve a similar degree of user-visible change as do new versions of proprietary operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, where many things besides the kernel change simultaneously.

The film begins with glimpses of Raymondo, a Linux IPO, Torvalds, the idea of Open Source, Perens, Stallman, then sets the historical stage in the early days of hackers and computer hobbyists when code was shared freely.

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.

It claimed Torvalds had plagiarized Linux source code from both Unix and MINIX, the latter a Unix-derived operating system written by Professor Andrew Tanenbaum.

The book claims that the Linux kernel was written using copied source code from Minix and other resources acquired improperly or possibly illegally by Linus Torvalds.

The Linux kernel, started by Linus Torvalds, was released as freely modifiable source code in 1991.

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 ).

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

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.

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

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 ".

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.

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.

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.

In 2010, Torvalds became a United States citizen and registered to vote in the United States ; he is unaffiliated with any U. S. political party, saying, " I have way too much personal pride to want to be associated with any of them, quite frankly.

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

* Linus Torvalds ( against Systems Hungarian ): " Encoding the type of a function into the name ( so-called Hungarian notation ) is brain damaged — the compiler knows the types anyway and can check those, and it only confuses the programmer.

Linus's Law as described by Raymond is a claim about software development, named in honor of Linus Torvalds and formulated by Raymond in his essay and book " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " ( 1999 ).

In the prologue of the book The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age ( 2001 ) Torvalds introduces his " Linus's Law ", which is that every motivation that makes a man do something can be classified under " survival ", " social life " and " entertainment.

Nils Torvalds ( born August 7, 1945 in Ekenäs ) is a Finnish-Swede broadcast journalist, writer and politician, MEP.

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

Torvalds is an author and co-writer of books about Russia and the Soviet Union.

" 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 ".