What Does Linus Torvalds Mean?
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-born American software engineer most notably known for creating the Linux kernel, a core system code used in many operating system distributions in use today. He remains the principal developer of Linux, managing tens of thousands of developers that contribute code for functions and bug fixes for the kernel. He also created GIT, a distribution control system widely used by development teams across the globe.
Techopedia Explains Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1969 and was named after the American Nobel Prize-winning chemist, Linus Pauling. He became interested with computing in 1981 at age 11 when he began programming in a Commodore VIC-20 system, initially using BASIC and then assembly language. He then moved on to a Sinclair QL, which he extensively modified, especially the operating system, and wrote his own assembler, editor and games for it since software for it was hard to come by in Finland.
