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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There are two statements named Linus's Law: one by Eric S. Raymond concerning software bug detection by a community, and the other by Linus Torvalds about the motivations of programmers.

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 ).

* Linus ' law, named for Linus Torvalds, states that " given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow "

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

Linus Torvalds had planned to have it named Freax ( a combination of ' free ', ' freak ', and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system ).

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.

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.

In April 2005, Monotone became the subject of increased interest in the FLOSS community after Linus Torvalds mentioned it as a possible replacement for BitKeeper in the Linux development process.

* 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 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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