Write short note about Linus Torvalds
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His parents named him after Linus Pauling. He studied at the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996. He became famous because of the success of his operating system, Linux. He started making this system as a student project in 1991. He based it on the popular UNIX operating system. Today, Linux has become the most popular free operating system.
Linus is the leader of the Linux project, which has many members around the world. He is the one person who can make decisions about changes or future development on the operating system. He also made the revision control system Git. He now lives with his family in the United States.
Linus chose the penguin to be the logo of Linux. A picture of penguin appears on many desktop computers that run Linux.
Linus Torvalds, (born December 28, 1969, Helsinki, Finland), Finnish computer scientist who was the principal force behind the development of the Linux operating system. Video Player is loading. This is a modal window.
Operating systems developed: Linux, MS-DOS, Unix
Software: Linux kernel
Born: December 28, 1969, Helsinki
Profession: Computer scientist, Software Developer