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HISTORY OF LINUS TORVALDS

Linus Torvalds is a legendary Finnish software developer, who was born on December 28, he is known as the creator and main architect of the Linux kernel, the open source operating system that powers most of the world's servers, supercomputers and Android devices, his parents worked as journalists, in his study process he considered himself good at mathematics and physics but bad at memorizing data. After finishing his military service he graduated after eight years with a master's degree.

His first toy he got was an electronic calculator from his grandfather, he used it to find the sine of several random numbers. He made programs from examples he saw in computer books and magazines and discovered machine code programming.

The name Linux was taken from its own name adding the tera x that was taken from MINIX operating system from which it was inspired, one of the reasons for Linux to succeed and expand around the world was the creation of free software, Torvalds, did not seek to profit from this software, thanks to the fact that the Linux code is free there are many versions of this operating system called distributions, there are for devices, to perform tasks, for personal use, professional, for video games, for computer security, and so on.

Linux code, found in almost every electronic device thanks to its flexibility, is found in small devices as well as supercomputers.

Beyond his technical legacy, Torvalds is an inspirational figure for aspiring programmers and entrepreneurs. His story demonstrates that with passion, dedication and an open approach to collaboration, it is possible to create ideas that change the world.