Name : Linus Benedict Torvalds
He is :
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Linus Torvalds |
| Born | December 28, 1969 Helsinki, Finland |
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| Residence | Portland, Oregon |
| Nationality | Finnish American |
| Ethnicity | Swedish-speaking Finn |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Employer | Linux Foundation |
| Known for | Linux kernel, Git |
| Spouse | Tove Torvalds née Monni |
| Children | 3 |
| Parents | Nils Torvalds (father) Anna Torvalds (mother)[4] |
| Relatives | Ole Torvalds (grandfather) |
- Chief architect of the Linux kernel
- He also created the revision control system Git.
Do you know
Linus wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds' directory linux.
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