Linus Torvalds

Why Is Linus Torvalds Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions like Debian, Arch and Android. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

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Linus Torvalds's Published Works

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Published Works

The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age (2001) (521)
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (2001) (312)
The Linux edge (1999) (153)
The Hacker Ethic (2020) (47)
Linux : a Portable Operating System (2011) (12)
N4215: Towards Implementation and Use of memory order consume (2014) (9)
Open Letter on Software Patents from Linux developers (2003) (5)
Linux Code Freeze (1994) (1)
Table 2 : Current Linux Kernel Release Managers (2003) (0)
THEY SAID IT (2007) (0)
ICTs, Social Networks, and Development (2007) (0)

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Linus Torvalds is affiliated with the following schools:

University of Helsinki

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