LINUS TORVALDS (developer of the Linux kernel)

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LINUS TORVALDS
(developer of the Linux kernel)

Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland His grandfather had a Commodore.VIC-20 that he had the opportunity to work with; by age ten, he was already dabbling in programming. He enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1989, and in 1990 he took his first C programming class. In 1991, Torvalds decided that his new MS-DOS-driven PC needed an alternative operating system. He had enough programming know-how. under his belt to assume that he could achieve this himself. His goal was to create a UNIX-like operating system he could use at home.  Using the Marice J. Bach's book "Design of the Unix Operating System" as a guide, he set out to create the system, working long, hard hours until, at age 22, he completed a rough version. He called his system "Linux," a combination of UNIX and his name, and posted the source code free on the Internet. Torvalds’ philosophy was that if he made the software available for free, downloading, including the source code, anyone with knowledge of and Interest in computer programming could modify the system and ultimately make it better, and/or modify it for their own specific purposes.   Linux quickly gained popularity among hard-core computer users.  Licensed under a GNU General Public License, the system is available free to anyone who can get, use, modify, distribute, and copy it. By 1999, an estimated Seven million computers were running on Linux.

ROSHAN PANDEY

S.Y.B.Sc(IT)

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