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Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds

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Finnish software engineer (born 1969)

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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a male programmer, software developer, writer, and inventor born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland. He is a Finland Swede who holds citizenship in the United States and Finland. His native language is Swedish, and he speaks Finland Swedish, Finnish, and English. He is educated at the University of Helsinki, where he has also been employed, alongside roles at Transmeta Corporation, Open Source Development Labs, and the Linux Foundation.

His notable works include the Linux kernel and the books *Just for fun*, *Open sources*, and *The hacker ethic*. Torvalds has received the Millennium Technology Prize, Computer Pioneer Award, Suuret suomalaiset, and Lovelace Medal. He is married to Tove Torvalds, and they have three children. His father is Nils Torvalds, and his relative is Ole Torvalds. He maintains a blog titled *Linus' blog*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 44 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Firecrawl, Open Library, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
28 December 1969
Works
3

Top works

  • Just for fun
  • Open sources
  • The hacker ethic

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Film & TV

Acting · Helsinki, Finland

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer best known for creating the Linux operating system and the version control system Git. He was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland, and has played a significant role in the development of open-source software.

Known for

  • Software Wars — Self2020
  • The Code — Himself2001
  • Revolution OS — Himself - Creator, Linux Kernel2001

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Finland

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
995
Total plays
6,108

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Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator. Official site: www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/torvalds <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Linus+Torvalds">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded helical configurations of the polypeptide chain

    · 1951 · cited 2,451x

  2. Colour Measurement and Analysis in Fresh and Processed Foods: A Review

    · 2012 · cited 1,889x

  3. How open is innovation?

    · 2010 · cited 1,862x

  4. Atomic Radii and Interatomic Distances in Metals

    · 1947 · cited 1,802x

  5. Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins

    · 1965 · cited 1,777x

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Quotes

  • “I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.”
  • “Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”
  • “Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just "ignore the bait", but &hellip; time for some serious flamefesting!”
  • “Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.”
  • “Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.”
  • “Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated &ndash; not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)”

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Official website

Linus' blog

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Encyclopedic overview

Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

Torvalds was one of the recipients of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linus Torvalds” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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