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Linus Torvalds

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Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.


— Linus Torvalds


#around #california #cold #day #i

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.


— Linus Torvalds


#i #i do #indirectly #linux #paid

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.


— Linus Torvalds


#expect #go #good #hungry #i

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.


— Linus Torvalds


#fact #good #good manager #i #instrumental

I never felt that the naming issue was all that important, but I was obviously wrong, judging by how many people felt. I tell people to call it just plain Linux and nothing more.


— Linus Torvalds


#felt #how #i #important #issue

I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.


— Linus Torvalds


#find #i #i see #interested #interesting

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.


— Linus Torvalds


#best #concentrate #fully #i #i can

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.


— Linus Torvalds


#doing #employed #happy #i #keep

I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.


— Linus Torvalds


#cd-rom #commercial #happy #hat #i

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.


— Linus Torvalds


#i #like #linux #making #never






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Did you know about Linus Torvalds?

From 1997 to 1999 he was involved in 86open helping to choose the standard binary format for Linux and Unix. 0 was a "disaster" because of its lack of maturity and so he had switched to GNOME by 2009. Torvalds also commented in 2005 on the official GNOME developmental mailing lists that he encouraged users to switch to K Desktop Environment 3 rather than use GNOME.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish: [ˈliːn. 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".

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