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Linus Torvalds Last modified: Friday, March 06, 2009
Linus Torvalds is credited with creating the Linux kernel in 1991 with the assistance of developers around the world. Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969 and was enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988 where he studied computer science. In the book Just For Fun: Linus Torvalds Biography, The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond, Torvalds says that Linux was created because he was "curious to see if he could improve upon the operating systems already out there".
Linux Online!  Excellent collection of general Linux resources on the Web, as well as news items, distributions, applications, hardware, support, projects. vendors, and user groups. Linus Torvalds Bio Linus decided to do the terminal emulation program himself, independently of Minix. These were the first steps toward creating Linux. Linus Torvalds: A Very Brief and Completely Unauthorized Biography Linus Torvalds is the world's most famous computer programmer and also its most famous Finn. He is the founder and coordinator of Linux, the Unix-like operating system that is beginning to revolutionize the computer industry and possibly much else as well. LinuxToday: Interview with Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux Now, the git people were obviously convinced that the whole distributed issue was so technically superior that you really needed to understand it, and that there was no way to make git centralized to match the expectations of people.	Related Categories Open Source (OSRC) Related Terms kernel Linux