Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds; born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and, for a long time, principal developer, of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for operating systemssuch 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...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth28 December 1969
CityHelsinki, Finland
CountryFinland
I am very happy about Android obviously. I use Android, and it's actually made cellphones very usable.
I've tried it a couple of times over the years, mainly because the thing Ubuntu did so well was make Debian usable. I always felt that Debian was a pointless exercise because to me, the point of a distribution is to make everything easy. Easy to install, to be pretty and to be friendly and Ubuntu did that to Debian.
Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do
Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.
I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.
Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.
I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
On the internet nobody can hear you being subtle.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.
So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous...
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.
And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.