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As far as I know Linus Torvalds is the author and maintainer of the Linux kernel but there are many other contributors and they offer that software free to anyone. However Torvalds owns the copyright to the name Linux This website is owned by our legendary admin Rob who is a Linux enthusiast
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, took the challenge into his own hands and disappeared over the weekend to emerge the following week with Git. Today Git is used for thousands of projects and has ushered in a new level of social coding among programmers.
Beginners Level Course: What is Linux? Linux is an operating system that evolved from a kernel created by Linus Torvalds when he was a student at the University of Helsinki. Generally, it is obvious to most people what Linux is. However, both for political and practical reasons, it needs to be...
Linux. It’s been around since the mid ‘90s, and has since reached a user-base that spans industries and continents. For those in the know, you understand that Linux is actually everywhere. It’s in your phones, in your cars, in your refrigerators, your Roku devices. It runs most of the Internet, the supercomputers making scientific breakthroughs, …
Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.
– By Natalie Shahova – Editor’s note: The following interview was originally published in English at the EnRus Translation Agency’s Web site in conjunction with the Russian language release of the Linus Torvalds book, “Just for Fun.”Shahova was the Russian translator of the book. The interview, which first appeared in Russian in Computerra on March …
Linus is known for his deeply committed attitude and approach to free open source software. Here's an item, with a video on an associated subject of secretiveness in relation to backdooring linux:
Linus try to make GNU/Linux competitive with other proprietary OS, and Stallman just try to make it free. Both things are really good for the users. If Stallman hadn’t started GNU, Linux would probably be another proprietary software that few people must know, and without Linus, we would probably be on the rock age of free software.
