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
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
So I decided that if the architecture is fundamentally sane enough, say it follows some basic rules like it supported paging , then I would be able to say, yes, Linux fundamentally supports that model.
In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.
All operating systems sucks, but Linux just sucks less
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
Those that can, do. Those that can't, complain.
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.