Linus Torvalds Presentation

By: Ivan Rubert Albiol

Linus Torvalds

Index

Personal life

Achievements

Interesting facts

Greetings

Legacy

Personal life

Linus Torvalds was born on 28 December 1969 in Helsinki, FinlandHe met his current wife Tove Torvalds in 1993He has 3 daugthersLinus developed an interest in scuba diving in 2000 and has achieved numerous certifications

Achievements

Git in 2005

GNU/Linux in 1991

Linux version 0.01

GNU/Linux

Torvalds wanted to call the kernel Freax ("free", "freak" and X because it was a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke host his repasitory with namo of Linux.On 5 January 1991 he purchased an Intel 80386-based IBM PC clone before receiving his MINIX copy.But he didn't like Minix, so he decided to create an OS himself. Initially, he wrote a low-level program to access his university's computer network via dial-up, then implemented a disk drive to download and upload files, and finally set about creating the first version of Linux.

Git (Version control software)

Legacy

Implementation of Linux:

Pioneer of free software: Encouraged teamwork and new ideas in software development.

Interesting facts

• His wife is a six-time Finnish national karate champion
• Linus started when his grandfather Leo Törnqvist bought one of the first Commodore VIC-20 microcomputers

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