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Linus Torvald's early childhood
Linus Torvalds was Born on 28 December 1969 in Helsinki, Finland.He was the grandson of a Finnish journalist and poet Ole Torvalds. -
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Early Years
He was enrolled in the University of Helsinki. At the university he was also part of the nodes research group. -
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Military
During he's time of study, he had to take a break from school because he was enrolled in the Finnish army and attended an eleven month training programme so he could obtain hes compulsory military service criteria of Finland. Nevertheless, he was a second lieutenant in the army -
After military
When he went back to school in the early 1990's, he because more fascinated with computer science. He purchased a clone of IBM PC called Intel80386. -
Tove Torvalds
Linus Torvald first met he's future wife at one the universities computer laboratory to whom he had three daughters with. -
first prototype of Linux
After he recieved he's minux copy, He programmed assembly language, tet editor and a couple of games. Later he then released hes Linux version 1.0 to the public -
Later College years
Linus graduated from the University with a master degree in computer science -
First job
Later in the year after college, he went to visit a technology firm 'Transmeta' where he began working there ASAP. He was involved with open source development labs -
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86open project
During this time, He worked on the '86open' project which is a binary file format for the 'Unix' and Unix-like operating systems. These were used on a common x86 PC -
Torvalds Beliefs
Later that year Linus made it clear that open source was the only right method to do software and that no matter, he uses the most efficient tool for the job even if it involves proprietary software. Obviously he was bound to be criticized for this. -
Red Hate and VA Linux
He was offered stock options for he's creation by the Companies. During that year, the stock prices increased to about $20 million after the companies was public. -
Trademark
Only two percent of the Linux kernel was written by Torvalds himself because it was open source. Thus many hackers have contributed and built of the Linux Kernel. Nevertheless Torvald has the most authority and is the deciding factor for new code developement into the Linux -
Legacy
He becaome a citizen of the United States of America -
Programming the Linux
He stated that his contribution to the Linux Kernel mostly involed merging codes that were already written by others. -
Awards
Linux won a Nobel Prize of the Millennium Technology prize