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Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
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GPLv2 affirmation… I don’t generally post here as people have probably noticed, but here’s a pdf of a recent court ruling, and this turns out to be the easiest way for me to link to a copy of it, since I don’t really maintain any web presence normally and I don’t want to post pdf’s to the kernel mailing lists or anything like that. And the reason I want to post about it, is that it basically validates my long-held views that the GPLv2 is about making source code available, not controlling the ac
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Being the responsible parents we are, we have Carbon Monoxide alarms in the house, because hey, it’s what you do. Right? Of course, they have never gone off (knock wood), so you do tend to forget that they exist at all. Well, yesterday one of those alarms decided that it needed to really remind us that it exists, and that it’s been ten years since we activated it. Because it’s now time to replace it. Of course, nobody was home - except for the dog. Who is now traumatized by that beeping hell-box
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Mshale: Linus Torvalds Was Right About Microsoft… And Nobody Noticed Metro Hours (YDH8oIF9Ew)
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Xataka: “Ya no soy programador”: Linus Torvalds dice que su trabajo ya no consiste en entender código, sino a las personas
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Mshale: MICROSOFT PROVED LINUS TORVALDS RIGHT — AGAIN Canada Weather Pattern Shift (PVx1cY3Ttn)
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BetaNews: Linus Torvalds calls AI code review the new normal as Linux 7.2 nears release
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Computer Hoy: Linux 7.2-rc7 llega con una amarga sorpresa para Linus Torvalds por culpa de la IA: "No puedo decir que esté precisamente entusiasmado con la magnitud de todo esto, pero es lo que hay"
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Neowin: Final Linux 7.2 release candidate lands and Torvalds highlights AI code use
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The Register: Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal
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Computer Hoy: Linus Torvalds, padre y creador de Linux, confirma que ahora solo necesita usar dos herramientas: "Ya no soy programador"
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Computer Hoy: Greg Kroah-Hartman se "enfrenta" a Linus Torvalds por el uso de la IA en Linux: "Si alguien está decidido a engañarnos deliberadamente, bueno, considérenlo una advertencia"
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Computer Hoy: Greg Kroah-Hartman, mano derecha de Linus Torvalds: "Al menos un tercio de los resultados que genera la IA son completamente erróneos o incluso perjudiciales"
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finance.biggo.com: Linus Torvalds to Kernel AI Critics: 'Fork It or Walk Away'
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somoslibres.org: Linus Torvalds rompe el debate: el creador de Linux defiende la IA en el desarrollo del kernel
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Memeburn: Linus Torvalds Thinks AI Just Made Code Review the Most Important Job in Linux
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Ars Technica: Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.”
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NewsBytes: Linus Torvalds backs Codex and Claude code for Linux development
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“GPLv2 affirmation… I don’t generally post here as people have probably noticed, but here’s a pdf of a recent court ruling, and this turns out to be the easiest way for me to link to a copy of it, since I don’t really maintain any web presence normally and I don’t want to post pdf’s to the kernel mailing lists or anything like that. And the reason I want to post about it, is that it basically validates my long-held views that the GPLv2 is about making source code available, not controlling the ac”
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“Some of you know today as π-day. But the real insiders know that today is the 30th anniversary of the 1.0 release of Linux.”
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“Instead of all this “spring forward” stuff, is it ok to instead just sleep in for an extra 23 hours? Asking for a friend.”
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“Being the responsible parents we are, we have Carbon Monoxide alarms in the house, because hey, it’s what you do. Right? Of course, they have never gone off (knock wood), so you do tend to forget that they exist at all. Well, yesterday one of those alarms decided that it needed to really remind us that it exists, and that it’s been ten years since we activated it. Because it’s now time to replace it. Of course, nobody was home - except for the dog. Who is now traumatized by that beeping hell-box”
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“Staycat.. Oh, look at that - power stayed on. There’s real pleasure in waking up and being able to make oneself a good cup of coffee. Not the disgusting swill I’ve been making my wife on the stove when the power was out.”
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“Staycation: day seven. We had power back twice yesterday for a couple of hours each time. The weather and PGE were just teasing us, and I will not consider that a real break in the cold darkness and despair that is being without electricity. But I still have battery power, and while it froze some more overnight and outside is now very slippery, it’s once more above freezing. So frozen pipes remain a thing of the past. End result: I have a handful of pull requests left (most of which came in in t”
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“Power came back on again. Will it stay on for the whole night and still be up tomorrow? Your guess is as good as mine.”
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“Well that didn’t last long. Do I reset my staycation counter to day one, or do I keep this at day six?”
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“.. and ten minutes after posting that, power and internet are back up. RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/ff709e97-12f1-49d3-9d3c-c57e914f3e52”
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“Staycation: day six. To nobody’s surprise, power didn’t come back yesterday, but neighbors report that the tree across the power lines has been cut up. So hopefully the electrical crew can come in and fix the power line. Of course, there may be other issues lurking. We lost power at 5am Saturday morning, and apparently the tree fell a few hours after that. So now there are conflicting theories about where our power is actually fed from. Presumably somebody at PGE knows, but they aren’t telling. ”
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Amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine, some developers were excluded from the list of Linux kernel maintainers, seemingly over being Russian or using Russian email addresses
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Neowin: Linus Torvalds is not much of a fan of GitHub's "absolutely useless garbage merges"
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Moneycontrol: Linus Torvalds
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Awarded IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (2018).
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Awarded Computer Pioneer Award (2014).
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Torvalds resumed using GNOME, noting that "they have extensions now that are still much too hard to find; but with extensions you can make your desktop look almost as good as it used to look two years ago"
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Awarded Internet Hall of Fame (2012).
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Awarded Millennium Technology Prize (2012).
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While giving a talk at Aalto University, Torvalds said "fuck you" and raised his middle finger after criticizing the company Nvidia, which specializes in GPU technology
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That his own personal contribution is now mostly merging code written by others, with little programming
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As part of a series called The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People, Torvalds was listed among The 100 Most Influential Inventors of All Time (ISBN 9781615300037)
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Torvalds became a United States citizen and registered to vote in the United States
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In 2010, Torvalds became a United States citizen and registered to vote in the United States.
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“Dijkstra probably hates me. (ang.)”
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“A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.”
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“My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.”
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“Opis: o producentach sprzętu, którzy odmawiają ujawnienia specyfikacji ich urządzeń, by mogły one współpracować z Linuksem.”
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“Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.”
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“The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.”
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“I’m a huge believer in evolution (not in the sense that "it happened" – anybody who doesn’t believe that is either uninformed or crazy, but in the sense "the processes of evolution are really fundamental, and should probably be at least thought about in pretty much any context"). (ang.)”
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“Todos queremos sentirnos relevantes, y pensar que estamos haciendo una diferencia en este mundo. Tener un trabajo donde uno se siente productivo, y saber que el trabajo que uno hace “importa” es un gran desafío.”
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“I'd like to say that I knew this would happen, that it's all part of the plan for world domination.”
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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code. (ang.)”
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“Traducción: "Si piensas que tus usuarios son idiotas, sólo los idiotas lo usarán.”
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“If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program. (ang.)”
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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
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“If you still don’t like it, that’s ok: that’s why I’m boss. I simply know better than you do. (ang.)”
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“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.”
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“Yo nunca usé el nombre GNU. Linux nunca fue un proyecto de la Free Software Foundation, y la FSF jamás tuvo nada que ver con él.”
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“Opis: ogłaszając wydanie Linuksa 0.02.”
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“(…) the Linux philosophy is 'laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself'. That’s it. (ang.)”
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“Los que pueden, lo hacen; los que no, sólo saben quejarse..”
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“Software is like sex; it's better when it's free.”
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“Si la FSF quiere llamarlo GNU/Linux, ¿por qué debería preocuparme? Después de todo, no tiene mucho más sentido que el llamarlo como un tipo de sombrero.”
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“Which mindset is right? Mine, of course. People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. (Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. I’m flexible, and not black-and-white.) (ang.)”
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“I’d like to say that I knew this would happen, that it’s all part of the plan for world domination. (ang.)”
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“Modern PCs are horrible. ACPI is a complete design disaster in every way. But we’re kind of stuck with it. If any Intel people are listening to this and you had anything to do with ACPI, shoot yourself now, before you reproduce. (ang.)”
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“Traducción: "Me gustaría decir que sabía que esto iba a pasar, que todo es parte de un plan para dominar el mundo.”
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“Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)”
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“Yo lo hago por mis propias razones, otra gente lo hace por sus razones. Creo que el mundo es un lugar complicado, y la gente es un animal interesante que hace cosas por razones complejas. Por ello no creo que debiera haber “una” ideología.”
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“No le presto mucha atención a lo que se hace con otros sistemas operativos. No compito - sólo me preocupa hacer que Linux se supere a sí mismo, no a los otros”
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“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. (ang.)”
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“In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.”
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“The main reason there are no raw devices [in Linux] is that I personally think that raw devices are a stupid idea. (ang.)”
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“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program.”
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Awarded Computer History Museum Fellow (2008).
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Torvalds stated that he used the Fedora Linux distribution because it had fairly good support for the PowerPC processor architecture, which he favored at the time
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The magazine's Europe edition named him one of the revolutionary heroes of the past 60 years
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Torvalds appeared as one of "the best managers" in a survey by BusinessWeek
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“Traducción: "A mucha gente todavía le gusta Solaris, pero estoy compitiendo activamente con ellos, así que espero que mueran." (Febrero 1, 2005)”
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In 2004, Torvalds moved with his family from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon.
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Torvalds moved with his family from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon
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Was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine
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Viewers of YLE (the Finnish Broadcasting Company) placed Torvalds 16th in the network's 100 Greatest Finns
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“Traducción: "De verdad, no estoy tratando de destruir a Microsoft. Ése será tan sólo un efecto colateral no intencionado." (2003)”
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“Torvalds, Linus (2003-09-23). Re: log-buf-len dynamic. Retrieved on 2025-06-03.”
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Awarded Takeda Awards (2001).
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Awarded European of the Year (2001).
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“Traducción: "Brevemente: sólo di NO A LAS DROGAS, y quizás no acabes como la gente de Hurd." (2001)”
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Awarded doctor honoris causa of the University of Helsinki (2000).
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Won Lovelace Medal (2000).
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The CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, proposed to Linus to work on macOS, requiring him to stop his work on the Linux kernel
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Was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century poll
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Awarded honorary doctor of Stockholm University (1999).
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Was named by the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the world's top 100 innovators under age 35
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Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation
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Awarded EFF Award (1998).
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“Opis: przedstawiając się na Linux Expo 1998 w Durham, Karolina Północna.”
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“Traducción: "Sólo los débiles hacen copias de seguridad en cintas: los hombres de _verdad_ tan solo suben sus cosas importantes a un servidor ftp, y dejan que el resto del mundo las replique." (1996)”
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Studied at University of Helsinki, master's degree (1988–1996).
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“Traducción: "Si aún no te gusta, está bien: Es por eso que soy el jefe. Sencillamente, sé más que tú." (1996)”
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“Traducción: "El manejo de memoria del PowerPC puede ser usado para asustar niños pequeños." (1995?)”
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Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds (née Monni), a six-time Finnish national karate champion, whom he met in late 1993.
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Torvalds resumed his university studies, and was exposed to Unix for the first time in the form of a DEC MicroVAX running ULTRIX
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Born 1969-12-28.
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Awarded Suuret suomalaiset.
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Awarded Nokia Foundation Recognition Award.
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Career landmark: sabbatical.
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Studied at Svenska normallyceum.
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