Linus Benedict Torvalds was born on a day like yesterday

Linus work desk

Yesterday I talked about the day Ian Murdock left us, one of the greats of this world of free software and Linux, he was a December 28 of 2015, but I did not forget another great news that happened that same day but in 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. There a baby was born who would be called Linus after the Nobel Prize in chemistry Linus Pauling, that little boy would become a student who when he had the knowledge of C created our beloved kernel to launch it in 1991. Yes, I am talking about the computer engineer and creator of Linux , Linus benedict torvalds that this day was born almost as an innocent to proprietary software.

Son of Nils Torvalds and Anna Torvalds, This Swedish speaking now has 48 years behind him and he has left us great moments and of course a great project: his kernel, our kernel. Although this is his greatest work, he has also contributed others less known to some, such as git or subsurface. During his career, he has worked in that mysterious company Transmeta microprocessor company that refused to give details of what it was doing for some time until it released its low-consumption microprocessors Crusoe and Efficeon with a code called Code Morphing that was part of the work carried out. by Torvalds there. 

He also went through the Open Source Development Labs from 2003 to 2007 after leaving Transmeta (1997-2003) and later joining the Linux Foundation where he receives his salary from 2007 to the present. And he continues to be the "commander" of the Linux project even though his contributions are reduced to a relatively small percentage of code. It is for all this that he has received numerous recognitions, some quite important such as the EFF Pioneer Award, the Millennium Technology Award, or the prestigious 2014 Computer Pioneer Award medal given by the IEEE.

But I'm sure for him his greatest achievements in life They were not these, nor were the best awards mentioned in the previous paragraph, but they are his wife Tove Torvalds and his three daughters Patricia Miranda, Daniela Yolanda and Celeste Amanda ...

With this article I say goodbye to 2017 and I wish all LxA readers a happy New Year's Eve and above all that 2018 is a good year for everyone: full of health above all to be able to enjoy love, and may luck also accompany us with illusions, new projects, whether personal or work, always accompanied by all those we love. ¡¡Happy 2018!!!

HAPPY YEAR 2018


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  1.   leo said

    Linux Torvlads, I hope you stay active for many more years supporting GNU Linux