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| | Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Torvalds attended the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996, graduating with a master's degree in computer science. | | | Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of Linux. | | | Linus was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendants to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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| | Metroactive Features Linus Torvalds |
| | Linus was a student in the computer science department at the University of Helsinki when he, like many programmers, fell in love with UNIX and wanted to run it on his home computer. | | | Linus Torvalds, the Helsinki prodigy who at age 22 wrote Linux, the computer operating system that lured these two dozen men out of their homes and offices on a weeknight, has moved to the world's technology Mecca to take his first real job. | | | Linus predicted the bare-bones code would appeal to shade-tree programmers who were then using a UNIX clone called Minix to tinker with their Intels. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.08.97/cover/linus-9719.html
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| | Linus Torvalds - Uncyclopedia |
| | Torvalds originally created and developed Linux using CVS technology, but was fired after a pharmacist caught him using the company computer. | | | From his lair from deep within the kernel-processing area in a computer, Linus Torvalds developed the widely popular apple to further his career as a witch. | | | At present, he and his rogue developers use a new technology called git, though it is widely rumoured that none of the Torvalds group actually know what the name stands for or how the software works, but are afraid to ask for fear of being called names. |
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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| | Linus Torvalds biography by The Linux Information Project |
| | Linus Torvalds is the world's most famous computer programmer and also its most famous Finn. | | | Consequently, Torvalds attempted to obtain a version of UNIX for his new computer. | | | Torvalds arrived in Silicon Valley when Microsoft was decimating Netscape in the browser war and when many people in the U.S. and elsewhere were hoping for a new, and more robust, challenger to the Microsoft monopoly. |
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http://www.bellevuelinux.org/linus.html
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| | Linus Torvalds — Virtual Finland |
| | That was when Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old student at Helsinki University, decided to write his own computer operating system. | | | Yet this year Torvalds was back in the headlines as one of the team that has produced a revolutionary new computer chip. | | | In some important respects, Torvalds’ Linux is better than the world’s principal operating system, Windows. |
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http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/torvalds.html
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| | Linus Torvalds |
| | In 1991 Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki, Fin., having just purchased his first personal computer (PC), decided that he was not satisfied with the computer's operating system (OS). | | | He made the software available for free downloading, and, as was a common practice among software developers at the time, he released the source code, which meant that anyone with knowledge of computer programming could modify Linux to suit their own purposes. | | | His PC used MS-DOS (the disk operating system from Microsoft Corp.), but Torvalds preferred the UNIX operating system he had used on the university's computers. |
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http://www.thocp.net/biographies/torvalds_linus.html
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| | CRN: Top 25 Executives |
| | Torvalds also generally shies away from the limelight, although occasionally attending industry conferences, and he is as precise about his role as he is with his code, preferring these days to call himself the chief technical lead rather than chief software architect since he is overseeing more and programming less. | | | “Linus is a brilliant developer, a developer with taste,” says Dirk Hohndel, director of Linux and open-source strategy at Intel and one of the early developers who began working on the Linux kernel shortly after its inception in 1991. | | | Torvalds has been instrumental in making Linux the most successful open-source project to date and challenging the establishment in the software industry, says the top guru of another successful open-source project. |
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http://www.crn.com/sections/special/top25/top25_03.jhtml?ArticleID=52601051
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| | Exclusive: Linus Torvalds tells his story - ZDNet UK News |
| | However, Torvalds' intentions notwithstanding, this book is likely to inflame old arguments about microkernels vs monolithic kernels, the concept of whether Linux should really be called GNU/Linux, and the issue of open source software versus free software. | | | On this PC Torvalds wrote his first terminal emulation program to address shortcomings in the Unix variant operating system, Minix. | | | The concept of open source and the GNU Public Licence (GPL) which Torvalds adopted to ensure that bug fixes, patches and developments would continually flow back into the into the community, is examined, as is the increasingly vocal debate over intellectual property. |
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,2085561,00.htm
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| | Linux Anecdotes |
| | At one point, Linus had implemented device files in /dev, and wanted to dial up the university computer and debug his terminal emulation code again. | | | As it happened, Linus wasn't very happy with Minix, so he kept improving his terminal emulator, and modifying it to become more like an operating system. | | | Like every self-respecting hacker, Linus had written some software development tools of his own; an editor and an assembler, I think. |
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http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html
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| | LINUS TORVALDS Interview |
| | This was of course the free software Linux, and its author Linus Torvalds. | | | Although definitely being one of the major figures in the free software movement, Linus is not trying to make the world a better place through free software (although he just might). | | | Linus: I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs that are so common in the MS-DOS world. |
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http://www.tlug.jp/docs/linus.html
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| | Interview With Linus Torvalds - OSNews.com |
| | Linus Torvalds: I don't want to open a 2.5.x development tree until I'm happy with the pending issues for 2.4.x - it's taken longer than I hoped for, but it's getting there. | | | Linus Torvalds: I don't mind what rms calls the system. | | | The biggest issues for 2.5.x (and the eventual 2.6 or 3.0 release) will probably be NUMA and other big machine scalability, along with an overhaul of the disk IO layer. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=161
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| | OSDL - Linus Torvalds Hired by OSDL |
| | As an OSDL fellow, Linus will work exclusively on leading the development of Linux, the open source software that he created in 1991 as a university student in Finland. | | | "Linus Torvalds adds tremendous credibility to OSDL's efforts to drive the evolution of Linux forward into enterprise computing and carrier environments," said George Weiss, vice president and research director for the research firm Gartner. | | | We originally developed our family of Crusoe microprocessors for lightweight notebook computers and other mobile computing devices, but we have developed and are continuing to develop microprocessors suitable for a variety of existing and emerging end markets in which x86 program compatibility and energy and thermal efficiency are desirable. |
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http://www.osdl.org/newsroom/press_releases/2003/2003_06_17_beaverton.html
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| | Linus Torvalds |
| | Torvalds earned his masters degree in computer science at the University of Helsinki, where the computers ran UNIX, an operating system designed by Bell Labs. | | | The kernel written by Torvalds comprises about 2% of the current Linux, but he still makes the ultimate decisions about which modifications are added and which aren't. | | | At 21, he wrote the first version of the Linux (lin-ucks) operating system. |
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http://www.nndb.com/people/444/000022378
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| | ThinkGeek :: Just For Fun: Linus Torvalds Biography |
| | Linus posted his early versions of LINUX on the Internet and called upon the most brilliant minds in computer science to enhance his system. | | | Linus offers a compelling look at how he sees the road ahead for LINUX and the computer industry. | | | Linus describes the history of LINUX in graspable terms and details how the system itself works, without lapsing into mindboggling technical jargon. |
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/38b2
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| | Interview with Linus Torvalds |
| | Linus Torvalds wrote the core of Linux, a free version of the Unix operating system. | | | Netscape's decision in January to release source code for its Web browser shows that the commercial software is not immune to the Linux model either. | | | Over the past two years, Linus Torvalds had an e-mail dialogue with First Monday's Rishab Aiyer Ghosh on what motivates people to work on free software. |
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http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/torvalds
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| | Nikolai Bezroukov. Portraits of Open Source Pioneers. Ch 4: A Slightly Skeptical View on Linus Torvalds |
| | All Linus Torvalds was concerned was the speed of running on Intel hardware and as Knuth aptly observed "premature optimization is the root of all evil." That's essentially the tragedy of Linus life: he have spend way too much time on premature optimization. | | | Both Linus' parents are journalists, and he probably inherited a journalistic talent and understands pretty well how important is to project the right public image of humbleness to create contrast that increases a "superhero effect". | | | Yet another fairytale (that actually is a part of "Raymondism") is that Linus invented new software development model: a democratic (bazaar) distributed development. |
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http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/index.shtml
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| | Torvalds switches to Apple: ZDNet Australia: News |
| | Torvalds, who initially created Linux for the Intel x86 platform, revealed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in February during a discussion on kernel size reduction that his main desktop machine no longer featured an x86 processor. | | | But it turns out that the man who created a revolutionary operating system which he initially described as "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like GNU", is probably not all that different from any other technology enthusiast. | | | 09 March 2005 05:30 PM Linux creator Linus Torvalds said this afternoon that he's now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, mainly for work reasons, although partly simply because he's a self-described "technology whore". |
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm
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| | Torvalds knifes Tridgell The Register |
| | Torvalds uses the pay-for proprietary software to manage the Linux source code (obliging other kernel developers to follow suit), but last week its owner, Bitkeeper CEO Larry McVoy, yanked the license, pushing Torvalds to look for an alternative. | | | Torvalds accuses Tridgell of playing dirty tricks with his proprietary source code tool of choice, Bitkeeper and destabilizing the product. | | | Tridgell, we've learned, was attempting to gain knowledge of the Bitkeeper protocols on the wire, so he could allow the Linux kernel developers to retrieve their source code metadata from the dark dungeons of Larry McVoy's back garden (ie, Bitkeeper). |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/14/torvalds_attacks_tridgell
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| | Salon 21st Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds |
| | Linux -- Torvalds' free UNIX-like operating system for Intel-based computers, among others -- may well prove to be the most threatening thing the digital Powers That Be have ever seen. | | | Source code and development environment are included; if you have the inclination or the need, feel free to fix, hack or extend it any way you like. | | | Nearly 500 years later, Linus Torvalds is insisting nobody should get between us and our CPUs, either. |
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http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/11/12feature.html
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| | Wired 11.11: Leader of the Free World |
| | Torvalds, now full-time at the Open Source Development Lab (right), dons a mask of the Linux mascot Tux. | | | Under his guidance, they manage to crank out software that matches, if not exceeds, the work produced by the salaried armies of Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and other well-financed behemoths. | | | He works from home as a fellow for the Open Source Development Lab, a corporate-funded consortium created to foster improvements to Linux. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/linus.html
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| | TLC :: Hackers: Hackers' Hall of Fame |
| | A true hacker in the classic sense, Linus Torvalds was a computer science student at the University of Helsinki when he wrote the operating system Linux (a contraction of "Linus' Minix") in 1991. | | | Torvalds modestly attributes much of Linux's success to the Net and to Richard Stallman's GNU: Both have facilitated development of his original kernel by fostering collaboration among software programmers and developers. | | | The software has proven to be tremendously popular worldwide — and best of all it's FREE! |
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http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/hackers/bio/bio_12.html
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| | BBC NEWS Technology Mr Linux basks in the limelight |
| | Instead it is more likely that Microsoft will become like IBM - "still huge but not the dominant force anymore", he said. | | | They may hate Windows but they run it despite that because, quite frankly, they don't care about computers," he said. | | | And even those that do care, often install Linux without much idea of what they want it to do, he said. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2300267.stm
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| | Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic Newsmakers CNET News.com |
| | Torvalds worked for years at now-struggling chip designer Transmeta, but he now plans to stay with his current employer, Open Source Development Labs in Oregon, "for the foreseeable future." | | | When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun Microsystems' Solaris. | | | Sun has turned Solaris into an open-source project. |
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http://news.com.com/Torvalds+A+Solaris+skeptic/2008-1082_3-5498799.html
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| | Interview: Linus Torvalds Linux Journal |
| | Linus: I don't know; he got me into math and computers. | | | So, that's when I said, ``Okay'', and started thinking about something else, and the result was moving to the U.S. Margie: Well, having computers as an early interest gives you a wide range of choices as far as what you might do. | | | But especially before university, I had my own thing, which was computers and that is what I did. |
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=3655
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| | Linus Torvalds |
| | Torvalds, now employed as a fellow by Linux trade group Open Source Development Labs Inc., coordinates the output of a few dozen volunteer assistants and more than 1,000 programmers scattered around the globe. | | | But Linux, the software project he created 13 years ago while a university student, is now one of the most powerful influences on the computer world. | | | And Linux has been causing Microsoft headaches aplenty: According to market researcher IDC (IDC), Linux held 21% of the server computer market in 2003, compared with 58% for Windows. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_02/b3915628.htm
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| | GROKLAW |
| | Linus has taken a quick look at the files and has given permission for us to publish his first analysis. | | | Linus' First Analysis of the Files - Authored by: D. | | | Linus' First Analysis of the Files - Authored by: snorpus on Monday, December 22 2003 @ 07:03 PM EST |
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031222174158852
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| | GNU/Linux, SCO, IBM, IP, UNIX, UnitedLinux - MozillaQuest Magazine - SCO-Caldera v IBM: Linus Torvalds Comments on ... |
| | Linus Torvalds: I don't think IBM would have started using Linux if it was true. | | | I think IBM got serious about Linux because it noticed that it _was_ "adequate for enterprise use" from a technical perspective, but lacked a lot of things IBM could bring to the table (marketing, of course, but even more than just marketing, just the presence of IBM made Linux be taken much more seriously). | | | That's because we want you to have the benefits of Linus Torvalds' comments about the SCO-Caldera v IBM lawsuit without any spin from us. |
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http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-05_Story01.html
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| | BW Online August 18, 2004 Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship |
| | Linus Torvalds created the first iteration of the Linux operating system 13 years ago. | | | Since then, he has been the technical shepherd coordinating the volunteer work of more than 1,000 people who actively contribute code and ideas to the Linux kernel -- the core program. | | | That has helped Linux become the No. 2 operating system worldwide for server computers. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2004/tc20040818_1593.htm
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| | Linus vs. Tanenbaum |
| | The limitations of MINIX relate at least partly to my being a professor: An explicit design goal was to make it run on cheap hardware so students could afford it. | | | Suppose Fred van Kempen returns from the dead and wants to take over, creating Fred's LINUX and Linus' LINUX, both useful but different. | | | This is an extract of the discussion between Andy Tanenbaum and Linus Benedict Torvalds about kernel design, free software, and more. |
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http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/Linus_vs_Tanenbaum.html
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| | CRN CRN Interview: Linus Torvalds |
| | CRN: Are you being called in by vendors such as CA and systems integrators to help win over some of these big Linux deals? | | | CRN: Is that why you decided to go to Open Source Development Lab and not a commercial vendor? | | | CRN: What is your advice for solution providers who may be concerned about the suit as they are building business solutions with Linux? |
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http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=43276
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| | Torvalds: GPL Needs Minor Work |
| | Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, last week weighed in on the upcoming challenges facing GPL Version 3 in an e-mail interview with eWEEK Senior Editor Peter Galli. | | | I think that Linus is level headed, as usual | | | The GNU General Public License, which is the most widely used free-software license and is used to license the open-source Linux kernel, is set for its first revision in 13 years. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1731874,00.asp
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| | TIME Digital -- Digital 50 - LINUS TORVALDS |
| | Thanks in part to daily bulletins from Eric Raymond, influential author and minister of propaganda for the open-source movement, the open-source model is spreading to other projects, from computer games to Web browsers. | | | TIME Digital -- Digital 50 - LINUS TORVALDS | | | As a student at the University of Helsinki in 1991, the Finn invented the alternative operating system Linux and gave away the source code free. |
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| | I only coded it." - Linus Torvalds "If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system." - Linus Torvalds "World domination. | | | I simply know better than you do." - Linus Torvalds "First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards, and NOT read it. | | | You'd better start practicing." - Linus Torvalds "How do you power off this machine?" - Linus Torvalds, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for several months. |
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| | Torvalds to SCO: Negotiate what? InfoWorld News 2003-09-10 By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service |
| | The war of words between The SCO Group Inc. and the Linux community escalated this week in a flurry of open letters, the latest from Linux creator Linus Torvalds. | | | Torvalds also had a few sarcastic words for the Lindon, Utah-based SCO, noting that it is ironic that SCO acquired much of its capital from an initial public offering based on a Linux business model. | | | Raymond reiterated Torvalds' demand that SCO back up its claims by identifying the allegedly infringing Linux code. |
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/10/HNtorvaldssco_1.html
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| | irc.msnbc.com transcript with Linus Torvalds |
| | Transcript of IRC chat with Linus Torvalds on irc.msnbc.com | | | It started as a personal project and it blew up in my face. | | | > FYI for those who are asking, we are typing for linus but he is on the phone with me :) |
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http://farcaster.net/linus.html
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| | A Complete History of Tux - so Far. |
| | As open source software by definition cannot be controlled by any one person, it is perhaps fitting the most recognized face in the Linux world belongs not to its creator, Linus Torvalds, but to its mascot, Tux. | | | However, Linus seems to have asserted his desires and today, there is no doubt that Tux is by far better known and more widely used than others that figured highly in the competition. | | | But the simple, single penguin would be the logo, and the others would just be that cuddly penguin being used as an actor in some tableau. |
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http://www.sjbaker.org/tux
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| | LinuxWorld Exclusive: Linus Discloses *Real* Fathers of Linux @ LINUXWORLD MAGAZINE |
| | As time passes, the base of Linux users is growing in the data center, desktop, and even emb... | | | ▪ Breaking News: Linus Torvalds Isn't the "Father of Linux," Claims Headline-Seeking Study | | | Thus begins a characteristically Torvaldsian e-mail to LinuxWorld News Desk sent by Linus Torvalds in response to our invitation to comment on the sensationalist claims this morning that he isn't, after all, the inventor of Linux. |
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http://linux.sys-con.com/read/44851.htm?CFID=68792&...
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| | The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ |
| | Linus deftly avoids the most persistent religious war in the hacker community by using neither Emacs nor vi. | | | If Linus is Finnish, why is his birth language Swedish? | | | He wrote the Linux kernel while a student at |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus
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| | Linus Torvalds - Wikiquote |
| | "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux as /linəks/." (1994) | | | Notes: In response to Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's claim that Linus Torvalds is not the real father of Linux. | | | Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium |
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
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| | LINUX MARK INSTITUTE |
| | LMI is not designed to generate profits for anyone, which is why Linus Torvalds has given LMI primary sub-license rights for the mark. | | | We work to protect legitimate uses of the LINUX trademark without burdening Linus Torvalds or any one entity with the financial responsibility of protecting the LINUX community's use of the mark. | | | LMI is an Oregon non profit mutual benefit corporation exempt from federal taxation under Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. |
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| | seattletimes.com |
| | The story you have requested, "Q&A: Linus Torvalds, inventor of Linux" has been moved to the seattletimes.com archive. | | | The story will appear automatically in ten seconds, or click here. |
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