linus torvalds inspired me
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who was the principal force behind the development of the 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. 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"TRANSCRIPT
Linus Benedict Torvalds
Born December 28, 1969 (age 42) Helsinki, FinlandOccupation Software engineerEmployer Linux FoundationKnown for Linux kernel, Git
How you discovered them.
I won my first computer 1995, and this computer was with Windows 95.
I was surprised, the License for Windows 95 was so expensive.
My cousin from São Paulo, came visit me and told me about the free operational system called Linux.
Mini biography
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish American software engineer and hacker, who was the principal force behind the development of the 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. 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"
Why they inspired you.
With 21 years old, Linus preferred change the world than be a millionaire.
He create a free computer operating system and open source software and invited other programmers a help the project.
He stimulated the Free software movement, the philosophy of the movement is that the use of computers should not lead to people being prevented from cooperating with each other. In practice, this means rejecting "proprietary software", which imposes such restrictions, and promoting free software, with the ultimate goal of liberating everyone "in cyberspace” – that is, every computer user.
With a 61% market share of the global servers market, and running 75% of stock exchanges worldwide, the Linux operating system today powers the servers that delivers amazon, facebook, twitter, ebay and google.
"The power of innovation that Linux [enables] from a business perspective is hallmark about what open source has done for Web 2.0," he noted. "Web 2.0 would not exist in its current form if it weren't for the business model of Linux."
"Linux is enabling business models that have nothing to do with technology [because]customers can do it cheaply, scale it and build businesses based on it," he added.
About Linux OS
Brazilian participation
Marcelo Wormsbecker Tosatti is a Linux kernel developer. He became the maintainer of the stable 2.4 kernel series in November 2001 when he was 18 years old and ultimately passed on maintainership for the 2.4 kernel series to Willy Tarreau on July 27, 2006.
Countrys using Linux• The federal government of Brazil is well known for its support for Linux.• News of the Russian military creating its own Linux distribution.• The Indian state of Kerala has gone to the extent of mandating that all
state high schools run Linux on their computers.• China uses Linux exclusively as the operating system for its Loongson
processor family to achieve technology independence.• In Spain some regions have developed their own Linux distributions,
which are widely used in education and official institutions, like gnuLinEx in Extremadura and Guadalinex in Andalusia.
• Portugal is also using its own Linux distribution Caixa Mágica, used in the Magalhães netbook and the e-escola government program.
• France and Germany have also taken steps toward the adoption of Linux.
Hermes Alves <[email protected]>