2 - Linus and Linux

In order to learn about Linux we must have to talk about a special person, he is

Linus Benedict Torvalds who was born in Helsinki, Finland in December 28, 1969. He is the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds. Torvalds attended the University of Helsinki, graduating with a master's degree in computer science. His academic career was interrupted after his first year of study when he joined the Finnish Army, selecting the 11-month officer training program to fulfill the mandatory military service of Finland. In 1990 he resumed his university studies.

Linus Torvalds

Linux Project

In 1991 Linus began a project to access the large UNIX servers of the university. He wrote the program using GNU C compiler. He started to ask questions, looking for answers and solutions after he started the project. Below is one of his first posts in comp.os.minix, dating from 1991:

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Gcc-1.40 and a posix-question Message-ID: <1991Jul3.100050.9886@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 3 Jul 91 10:00:50 GMT Hello netlanders, Due to a project I'm working on (in minix), I'm interested in the posix standard definition. Could somebody please point me to a (preferably) machine-readable format of the latest posix rules? Ftp-sites would be nice.

Finally he realized that he had written an operating system kernel (Linux Kernel). On 25 August 1991, he announced this system. At that time he was just a 21 years old student.

Major part of today’s Linux kernel is written in C programming language and assembly language and only 2% of today’s kernel contains code written by Torvalds.

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