10 Interesting Facts About Linus Torvalds - The Linux Creator

His full name is Linus Benedict Torvalds. He was named after Nobel prize winner- Linus Pauling

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Linus got his first computer at the age of 10 and it was Commodore Vice 20

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Steve Jobs in 2000, approached Linus to work for Apple but he rejected the offer and continued work for Linux.

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He wanted to change the Linux name as “Freex” as in free but later dropped that idea

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Linus is also credited for creating Git, which is widely used in Software development as a version control system.

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Linus is a scuba diver. He even created a scuba logging software - Subsurface

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An asteroid - 9885 Linux , was named after him.

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He is married to Tove Torvalds, who was once his student. Tove Torvalds was six times Finnish Karate champion

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Linus created Linux kernel because he was not having enough cash to buy UNIX

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Once in an interview Torvalds used F word for NVIDIA because of it's lack of support in Linux

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