Creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel (born 1969)
Linus Torvalds
Torvalds in 2018
Born
Linus Benedict Torvalds
(1969-12-28) 28 December 1969 (age 54)
Helsinki, Finland
Nationality
Finnish
American
Alma mater
University of Helsinki (M.S.)[1]
Occupation
Software engineer
Employer
Linux Foundation
Known for
Linux, Git
Spouse
Tove Torvalds
Parent(s)
Nils Torvalds (father)
Anna "Mikke" Torvalds (née Törnqvist, mother)
Relatives
Sara Torvalds (sister) Leo Törnqvist (grandfather) Ole Torvalds (grandfather)
Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ˈliːnəsˈtɔːrvɔːldz/LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz,[2]Finland Swedish:[ˈliːnʉsˈtuːrvɑlds]ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel."[3] He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award[4] and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.[5]
^"Linus Torvalds 2008 Fellow". Archived from the original on 9 July 2010.
^"Linus Torvalds: Why Choose a Career in Linux and Open Source" on YouTube
^"Technology Academy Finland – Stem cell pioneer and open source software engineer are 2012 Millennium Technology Prize laureates". Technologyacademy.fi. 19 April 2012. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
^"Computer-Pioneer-Award". Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
^"List of IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award recipients" (PDF). ieee.org. 3 April 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 March 2018.
Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ˈliːnəs ˈtɔːrvɔːldz/ LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American...
Swedo-Finnish Torvalds is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the software engineer LinusTorvalds of Linux kernel fame. Torvalds was a member...
trip with LinusTorvalds and Miika Turkia". plus.google.com. 3 October 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2019.[permanent dead link] Torvalds, Linus (30 August...
Angry? LET IT ALL OUT says LinusTorvalds". The Register. Retrieved 8 November 2015. Clarke, Gavin (7 November 2012). "Torvalds: I want to be nice, and curse...
an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by LinusTorvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution (distro), which...
1999). "Interview: LinusTorvalds". Linux Journal. Archived from the original on 14 May 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2009. Torvalds, Linus Benedict (26 August...
Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student LinusTorvalds to create a new free operating system kernel. The resulting Linux kernel has...
and grandfather of software engineer LinusTorvalds famous for the Linux kernel. His full name was Ole Torvald Elis Saxberg, but he was also named Karanko...
the war between LinusTorvalds and other Kernel developers and the Free Software Foundation over GPLv3 is continuing, with Torvalds saying he's fed up...
1991, the Linux kernel appeared, developed outside the GNU project by LinusTorvalds, and in December 1992 it was made available under version 2 of the GNU...
to LinusTorvalds". ZDNet. April 13, 2011. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 19, 2016. Linus Benedict Torvalds (5...
fundamental software that underpins GitHub is Git itself, written by LinusTorvalds, creator of Linux. The additional software that provides the GitHub...
an estimated 1.2 million users, and is also the distro of choice by LinusTorvalds (as of May 2020[update]), creator of the Linux kernel. Fedora has a...
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hackers and entrepreneurs including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, LinusTorvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian...
Isabelle "Belle" Darling (1881–1926).: 22 He was named "Linus Carl", in honor of Lucy's father, Linus, and Herman's father, Carl.: 8 His ancestry included...
"LinusTorvalds says "f--k you" to NVIDIA". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on February 15, 2018. Retrieved March 2, 2024. "LinusTorvalds: 'fuck...
which it inherited from the classic Mac OS. Operating system designer LinusTorvalds had criticized HFS+, saying it is "probably the worst file system ever"...
and Torvalds knifes Tridgell, two articles describing Tridgell's 2005 linux.conf.au keynote and comparing what he did to statements by Torvalds and McVoy...
an organization which administers the "Linux" trademark on behalf of LinusTorvalds for computer software which includes the Linux kernel, computer hardware...
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pointers point to and the locks that a function acquires or releases. LinusTorvalds started writing Sparse in 2003. Josh Triplett was its maintainer from...
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