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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[Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, The Linux Edge, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/linus.html, 2006-08-28, 1-56592-582-3, 1999, O'Reilly & Associates, DiBona, C]
1990s, 1995-99
“Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.”
[In response to http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/07/northeast_portland_man_who_str.html]
2010s, 2012
Attributed
Source: Desktop_architects list, 2007.8.3 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html
Post, comp.os.linux.development.system newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-07-05, Torvalds, Linus, 2016-05-25 https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.os.linux.development.system/EG3iv5IcC3Y/6d_v3HZUZLYJ,
1990s, 1995-99
Comment in Linux kernel 1.1.42's kernel/sched.c file, 2006-08-28 http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v1.1/42/kernel/sched.c,
2000s, 2006
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003580.html
2010s, 2017
“I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots.”
LKML, April 21, 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/0aff8e90a185c176
2000s, 2006
Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds, 2009-06-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2009-06-26 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7439,
2000s, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmHRSeA2c8&t=49m37s
DebConf 14: Q&A with Linus Torvalds
DebConf 2014 Portland
Youtube/Google
49min37
2014
Daniel Gillmore, Ana Guerrerero López.
2010s, 2014
unknown, news:1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI, Post, news:comp.os.minix, Google Groups, 1991-08-25, 2006-08-28, Torvalds, Linus http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=1991Aug25.205708.9541%40klaava.Helsinki.FI, This was the launch of Linux.
1990s, 1991-94
“Nobody actually creates perfect code the first time around, except me. But there's only one of me.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
YouTube
Google
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2000s, 2007
“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.”
Post to comp.os.linux.advocacy newsgroup, 1996-07-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=4sv02t%24j8g%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI,
1990s, 1995-99
Linus' blog: Black and white, 2008-11-02, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-11-02 http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/11/black-and-white.html,
2000s, 2008
“The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.”
Attributed
Source: quoted by Alan Cox here http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/msg/dc45421fdef2aaa1?pli=1
2000s, 2007
Message to Linux kernel mailing list, 2006-09-22, Torvalds, Linus, 2008-06-07 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/22/319,
2000s, 2006
LKML, September 28, 2006 http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/892dc13a2f4c5483
2000s, 2006
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
Linus Torvalds - LKML, Torvalds, Linus, 2012-12-23, 2012-12-29 https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75,
2010s, 2012
Message, linux-kernel mailing list, IU, 1996-07-20, Torvalds, Linus, 2014-04-26 http://www.webcitation.org/6P8EBZqQX,
1990s, 1995-99
Source: Linux Times, 2004-10-25 http://web.archive.org/web/20050404020308/http://www.linuxtimes.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=145,
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
“I allege that SCO is full of it.”
Linux Defended, Galli, Peter, 2003-06-23, 2008-03-01, eWeek http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Linux-Defended,
2000s, 2000-04
<nowiki>Re: [ 00/19 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2, 3.10.1-stable review</nowiki>, Torvalds, Linus, 2013-07-15, 2013-07-17]
2010s, 2013
Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, 2007-09-07, Torvalds, Linus, 2007-09-22 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643,
2000s, 2007
“I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right […].”
Re: clarification on git, central repositories and commit access lists, 20 Aug 2007, Linux Weekly News, kde-core-devel@kde.org, 2007-12-28 http://lwn.net/Articles/246381/,
2000s, 2007
, announcing Linux version 0.02. The Hurd 0.0 was released in August 1996 and as of 2015, is still not complete.</p>
1990s, 1991-94
“I wish everybody was as nice as I am.”
2010s, Audience Q&A following interview panel at Aalto University Center, 2012
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