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Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

Finnish programmer


Birthday
Sunday
He is born 54 years, 3 months and 0 day ago
Birthplace
Helsinki, Finland
Nationality: finnish Finlande
Categorie
Programmers
Birth sign: Capricorn
Chinese birth sign: Rooster

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Linus Benedict Torvalds ( LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish-American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel." He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.

Source : Wikipedia