Linus Benedict Torvalds (born in Helsinki, Finland, December 28, 1969, age 41 years) is a Finnish software engineer who is known as a pioneer development of the Linux Kernel. He now acts as the coordinator of the project.
Inspired by Minix Linux (operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a Unix-like operating systems (Unix-like) that can be run on a PC. Linux now runs on a variety of other architectures.When Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student quiet distribute the source code (source code) Linux kernel size of a floppy disk via the Internet in 1991, he had no idea that what gave birth to the commencement of a business worth billions of dollars in the future.He did not even suspect the Linux operating system later became the most promising, which can be immersed into the servers, desktop computers, tablet PCs, PDAs, mobile phones, GPS, robots, cars made by NASA's space shuttle.Not only that, many avid Linux (Linuxer) who buy and replace the Apple-made device with a Linux operating system. For me it's a little crazy, remember to remove the operating system Mac & iPod mean throwing money and replace the operating system is quite difficult compared to Windows-based desktop. Currently 20% desktop market share around the world use Linux well above Machintosh and continue to pursue the Windows desktop. And 12.7% server using Linux worldwide, far above UNIX, BSD, Solaris, and continued to increase market share erode Microsoft's servers.Currently Linus left a promising position at Transmeta semiconductor company and lives with his wife and three children in a village on the hill in Portland, Oregon, USA, adjacent to the headquarters of the Open Source Development Labs. This nonprofit organization is staffed by an 20-programmers who have a passion similar to Linus. They continue to develop the Linux kernel that is now an 290-megabytes-sized or exceed 9 billion line of code. Linux and his team received input lines of code all over the world, sort, set priorities and the most brilliant ideas put into the kernel. LSD itself is backed by dozens of IT giants like IBM, HP, Dell and Sun, both in terms of material and human resources.Linus is not the first to distribute the source code for this pattern is common in the early growth of the computer industry. But Linus successfully set a standard that many developers join forces to free the source code of their programs, ranging from BSD, Solaris, Suse, Java to Adobe.Although only paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, Linus has created a lot of multimillionaires in the computer industry ranging from RedHat, Suse, Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu and many other open source software developers. Almost nothing had changed from Linus. When he arrived late at a conference of IT, he even did not hesitate to sit on the floor in shorts and her favorite footwear. He was not even angry when giving a speech at the podium and interrupted by some BSD programmer who advanced to the front of the stage who claimed that the BSD kernel is infinitely greater than the Linux kernel. He even did not hesitate to wear T-Shirt protesters posed BSD and continued his speech.According to Linus, what it does is just to share. In contrast to Richard M Stallman a zealot with the concept of free software, Linus only emphasizes the openness (open), then no matter whether in a mixed operating system and proprietery free program.Every word almost to the word of Linus among Linuxer to raise the standard a certain value. Any publication, speech, press dab email releasenya always eagerly awaited millions of people. In his busy, Linus took a ride down the hill and drink at the village bar.
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