
Linus Torvalds
December 28, 1969
Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Biography
Linus Benedict Torvalds (/ˈlaɪnəsˈtɔːrvɔːldz/; Swedish: [ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds] ; born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, for a long time, principal developer, of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systems (and many distributions of each) such as GNU and years later Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed revision control system Git and the diving logging and planning software Subsurface. 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". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award.
Planets
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Aspects
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Chart Patterns
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