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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.
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 ".
However, Torvalds thought KDE Plasma Desktop 4. 0 was a " disaster " because of its lack of maturity, so he switched to GNOME.
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.
As of 2006, approximately two percent of the Linux kernel was written by Torvalds himself.
Torvalds was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendants to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date.
On April 23, 2012 at Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Torvalds was one of the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame, one of ten in the Innovators category and thirty-three overall inductees.
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.
In 2010, as part of a series called The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People, Torvalds was listed among The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time ( ISBN 9781615300037 ).
In 1996, an asteroid ( 9793 Torvalds ) was named after him.
Linus Torvalds, the original creator of Linux ( a popular operating system kernel ), was once pecked by a Little Penguin while on holiday in Australia.
This was famously disapproved of by Tanenbaum in the Tanenbaum – Torvalds debate.
In 1998, McConnell was named as one of the three most influential people in the software industry by Software Development Magazine, along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.
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 active in the Communist Party of Finland ( SKP ) since he was a college student in the 1960s.
In 2007 Torvalds was elected to the post of the third vice chairperson of the Swedish People's Party.
Ole Torvalds ( 4 August 1916, Ekenäs – 8 February 1995 ) was a Finnish-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland.
He was the father of Nils Torvalds and grandfather of Linus Torvalds.

Torvalds and for
In 1999 Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.
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.
However, Torvalds subsequently wrote a free-software replacement for BitKeeper called Git.
* Linus ' law, named for Linus Torvalds, states that " given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow "
In 1935 when he had moved to Helsinki for studies he changed his name to Torvalds.
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.
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.
In the 1991 release notes for versions 0. 01 to 0. 11 of the Linux kernel ( which was not released under the GNU General Public License until version 0. 12 ), Torvalds wrote, " Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere < nowiki >[...]</ nowiki > Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software.
In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social / Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.
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 Linux trademark is owned by Linus Torvalds in the U. S., Germany, the E. U., and Japan for " Computer operating system software to facilitate computer use and operation ".
The assignment of the trademark to Torvalds occurred after attorney William R. Della Croce, Jr. began in 1996 to send royalty demand letters to various Linux distributors, claiming to own the Linux trademark for which he filed in August 1994.
Linus Torvalds, a famous Finnish Software engineering | software engineer, best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel | kernel of the Linux operating system.
It cited a number of arguments for the claim, including an email from Tanenbaum saying MINIX " was the base " Torvalds used to create Linux.
At linux. conf. au 2009, Bdale's 27-year-old beard was removed by Linus Torvalds to raise funds for Tasmanian Devil facial tumour disease research.
Stanley is apparently recruited at the last minute as a replacement for Gabriel's first choice, Axl Torvalds ( Rudolf Martin ), a Finnish hacker of exceptional talent who was arrested by authorities at the airport.

Torvalds and 2009
Writing in February 2009, Linus Torvalds expresses doubt whether seccomp is actually used by anyone.

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

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