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Linus Torvalds
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Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds
(; ; born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American
software engineer
, who is the creator of the
Linux kernel
and for a long time, principal developer; that became the kernel for operating systems (and many
distributions
of each), such as
GNU
and years later
Android
and
Chrome OS
. He also created the
distributed revision control
system
git
. He was honored, along with
Shinya Yamanaka
, with the 2012
Millennium Technology Prize
by the
Technology Academy Finland
"in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014
IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
.
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