He developed the very first version of Linux.
He also developed Git, a free-to-use software versioning system.
A fierce advocate of open source code.
He currently lives in America, but is from Finland.
@mjseu , @deepndark -> is this guy popular in your country? He should be a legend!!
Or will he share the same fate as Dennis Ritchie, the one who created Unix and the C programming language, but remained largely unknown and even his death happened in the same year as Steve Jobs’, so he got little to no news coverage…
I’ve heard of him. I didn’t realise he developed Git as well as Linux. He must be very clever. I have programmed a little (not professionally) so I understand a little how complicated it is. I can bearly get beyond Hello World these days but I have great admiration also for Dennis Ritchie and I like C as a language. It loves my Amiga computer right back.
It is funny how I met Linus Torvalds. I had driven my auto from Miami to San Francisco and then to San Jose, California. I changed my clothes to the business suit in the restroom of San Jose’s conference center where the Linux Trade show was, then I walked around in the trade show and there was Linus and I had a chat with him. I told I was from Miami and he replied that ‘it is the long distance from there’, but he did not know I lived in my auto and I had driven 3.5 days to attend this trade show and that I slept in my car in the parking lot next to the conference center. Any way it was fun to have the chat with him.
