Linus Benedict Torvalds, né le 28 décembre 1969 à Helsinki en Finlande, est un informaticien américano-finlandais.
Il est connu pour avoir créé en 1991 le noyau Linux dont il continue de diriger le développement. Il en est considéré comme le « dictateur bienveillant ».
“Il ne fait aucun doute qu'IBM constitue le plus grand coup de Linux.”
En 2000, IBM a annoncé investir 1 milliard de dollars dans l'écosystème Linux (Linus Torvalds et David Diamond, Just for fun : The story of an Accidental Revolutionary (New York : Harper Collins), 2001), p.158.)
Au service d'un monde meilleur, 2006
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote
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I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
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I also realize that _everybody_ thinks that
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Torvalds, Linus, 2016-04-07, <nowiki>Linus Torvalds still wants Linux to take over the desktop</nowiki>, 2016-04-07 http://www.cio.com/article/3053507/linux/linus-torvalds-still-wants-linux-to-take-over-the-desktop.html,
2010s, 2016
[Kerstetter, Jim, http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_05/b3868110_mz063.htm, Linus Torvalds: SCO Is 'Just Too Wrong', BusinessWeek Online, 2004-02-02, 2006-08-28]
2000s, 2000-04
-- 8/15/07 -- http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/TechGovernment/News.asp?id=44682&PageMem=2 --
Attributed
Post to comp.os.linux.development.apps newsgroup, 1995-03-08, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3jju43%24gc8%40klaava.helsinki.fi,
1990s, 1995-99
“I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.”
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
“Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.”
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2009-03-25, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-03-25 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/25/632,
2000s, 2009
2010s, 2016
Torvalds to his mother, about his sister
2000s, (2001)
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2004-10-26, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/1101.html,
2000s, 2000-04
Interview with Linus Torvalds of The Linux Foundation, 2008-09-15, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-12-31 http://www.linuxfoundation.org/events/node/154,
2000s, 2008
-- Wed, 23 Jan 2008 -- http://web.archive.org/20080213164251/kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/1/23/595619
Attributed
Attributed
Source: LKML 2005.12.24 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/24/92
Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds, 2009-06-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-06-26 http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7439/1.html,
2000s, 2009
Notes: from NOTES topic of open(2) manpage, 2009-04-13 http://linux.die.net/man/2/open,
2000s, 2009
“If you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix your program.”
Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation, 2011-08-13, 1995 https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst,
1990s, 1995-99
“If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.”
Attributed
Source: Mike Linksvayer's 1993 interview http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/interview.html in the first issue of Meta Magazine http://gondwanaland.com/meta/history/
Linus Torvalds - Google+ (As a reply in the comments section), Torvalds, Linus, 2014-03-06, 2014-03-07 https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV,
2010s, 2014
“… the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself."”
That's it.
Post, linux.dev.kernel newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-10-16, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.961016155929.27735D-100000%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI,
1990s, 1995-99
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2007-06-14, Torvalds, Linus, 2010-02-01 http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/29b45885cc7b11b3,
2000s, 2007
Those two really do work.
Torvalds, Linus, 2011-04-13, Linux 2.6.39-rc3, 2011-04-21 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1126136,
2010s, 2011
“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.”
Why Intel and Netscape bought into Linux, 1998-10-01, CNN.com, Needle, David, 2016-03-08 http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9810/01/whylinux.idg/,
1990s, 1995-99
“An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.”
Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation, 2011-08-13, 1995 https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst,
1990s, 1995-99
Message to Git mailing list, 2006-06-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://lwn.net/Articles/190241/,
2000s, 2006
“And what's the Internet without the rick-roll?”
Redhat Bugzilla Bug 439858: swf mozilla plugin - no youtube, 2008-03-31 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439858,
2000s, 2008
“Toto, I don't think we're talking white-socks-and-sandals any more.”
Torvalds, 2011-03-01, pearls before swine, 2011-03-01 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2011/02/pearls-before-swine.html,
Torvalds contemplating his appearance at an Oscar Party.
2010s, 2011
Message to usability@gnome.org mailing list, 2005-12-12, 2006-08-28, Torvalds, Linus http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00021.html,
2000s, 2005
Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week Interview, 2008-07-17, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-07-17 http://www.simple-talk.com/opinion/geek-of-the-week/linus-torvalds,-geek-of-the-week/,
2000s, 2008
Torvalds: Waiting To See Sun's Open Solaris, 2005-02-01, Rooney, Paula, CRN, 2006-08-28 http://www.crn.com/news/applications-os/59300278/torvalds-waiting-to-see-suns-open-solaris.htm,
2000s, 2005
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