____________________ Linus Torvalds

____________________ Linus: Family Man Born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki. Finland Part of 6% Swedish speaking minority Has three daughters, Patricia, Daniela, Celeste, and wife, Tove.

____________________ Mr. and Mrs. Torvalds Campus radicals at University of Helsinki in 1960s Father is communist, studied in Moscow for a year

He likes Computers Studied at University of Helsinki in 1988 Used University computers running Unix operating system Used Minix, a Unix imitator, at home Wanted fully functional Unix on home PC ____________________

An Idea At age 21, after one C programming class, he wrote his own version of Minix, Linux (Linus’ Minix) Originally called it Freax (free + freak + x) Friend renamed it back to Linux on web server __________________

The Birth of Linux Made Linux available for free on the internet in 1991 Caught the attention of Minix users __________________

Modern Linux Many say it has become a major competitor to Microsoft Windows Newest Kernel (core) version is 2.6.4, released on 3/11/04 Various Distributions, or flavors, of Linux __________________

Current Status In 1997, he took a job with Transmeta, a chipmaker in California, writing software for them Now works for Open Source Development Lab, from home, testing and developing Linux ____________________

Linus Quotes “Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.” “Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.” “The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.” __________________