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Linus Torvalds

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What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.


— Linus Torvalds


#brought #commercialism #distribution #easy #good

When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.


— Linus Torvalds


#because #comes #enough #free #free software

When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."


— Linus Torvalds


#free #got #hey #i #just

You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.


— Linus Torvalds


#get #sued #won #you

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is.


— Linus Torvalds


#good #how #kernel #linux #lots






About Linus Torvalds

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Did you know about Linus Torvalds?

From 1997 to 1999 he was involved in 86open helping to choose the standard binary format for Linux and Unix. 0 was a "disaster" because of its lack of maturity and so he had switched to GNOME by 2009. Torvalds also commented in 2005 on the official GNOME developmental mailing lists that he encouraged users to switch to K Desktop Environment 3 rather than use GNOME.

Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish: [ˈliːn. 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".

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