, Finland
) is a Finnish software engineer
and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel
. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator. He also created the revision control
system Git
as well as the Scuba diving
log book software Subsurface.
Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland.
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves 'why?'. Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.
I have an ego the size of a small planet
My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix|Minix.
If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.
You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU|GNU Emacs|emacs would never make a good program.