Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Message, linux-kernel mailing list, 1996-10-17, IU, Torvalds, Linus, 2017-04-25 http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9610.2/0030.html, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99
“Personally, I'm not interested in making device drivers look like user-level. They aren't, they shouldn't be, and microkernels are just stupid.”
Post, mlist.linux.kernel newsgroup, 2002-05-25, Google Groups, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/group/mlist.linux.kernel/msg/938ffa86ae60dc7a, <br class="br">2000s, 2000-04
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