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# Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a computer scientist, born in December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

He was named after Linus Pauling. Later, he studied as a student at the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996. He became famous because of the success of his operating system, Linux. He started to study the creation of this system in 1991, and based it on the popular UNIX operating system. Today, Linux has become the most popular free operating system.

Linus is the leader of the Linux project, which has many members around the world. He is the one person who can make decisions about changes or future development on the operating system. He now lives with his family in the United States.

Linus chose the penguin to be the logo of Linux, and a picture of the animal appears on many desktop computers.

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## [edit] External links

- Linus Torvalds' personal homepage
- The Linux Kernel Archives - the Linux kernel source provied by the Kernel.Org Organization

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