Torvalds Linus Benedict

Torvalds Linus Benedict

Linus Torvalds

Torvalds Linus Benedict, also known as Linus Torvalds , is a Finnish software engineer. He is the actual author of the kernel operating system GNU/Linux - in some ways the most popular OS among the free. software He is still working with Linux as a project coordinator.

Biography

Linus Torvalds was born in Helsinki on December 28, 1969 in the family of journalists Anna and Niels Torvalds. He received the name in honor of Linus Polling, Nobel laureate in the field of chemistry. Linus' grandfather, Ole Torvalds, a poet, was known among Finland's creative elite. Another maternal grandfather, Leo Törnqvist, a professor of statistics at the University of Helsinki, was an unquestioned authority for Linus. At school, the author Linux was known as a "botanist" and an inhumane. He was repeatedly exposed to peer bullying not only because of character and hobbies, but also because of his father's political views. Nils Torvalds himself was an ardent communist, and even spent a year in. To Moscow He was fond of the exact sciences and had little interest in humanitarian subjects. At age 11, Linus mastered the Commodore VIC-20 and became interested in programming on Basic. At the age of 17, Torvalds Jr. purchased the newest Sinclair QL at the price of dollars US 2000 with the accumulated money. In 1988, Linus entered the University of Helsinki, which he successfully graduated in 1996 with a master's degree in cybernetics. Now Torvalds lives with his wife and children in Portland, Oregon, USA. Since 1997, he worked for Transmeta Corp, after which he left Open Source for Development Labs.

2018

Suspending work on Linux to rethink its role in the community

On September 16, 2018, Linus Torvalds announced the suspension of his work on the Linux kernel in order to rethink his role in the community. He spoke about this in the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML).

Torvalds decided to take a vacation, and during his break as curator of Linux kernel development, he will be replaced by Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is responsible for supporting the stable kernel branch. It is tasked with completing the development of Linux 4.19, which is in the fourth stage of Release Candidate (RC) by September 17.

Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds did not give an exact timeline for returning to work. Most likely, this will happen by the time the 4.20 kernel begins to be created. At the same time, Torvalds suggested that he could completely move away from Linux development.

Torvalds decided for some time to resign as head of Linux development in order to conduct introspection and engage in self-development. This was prompted by the case when he  confused the place and time of the Linux Kernel Summit 2018 conference and planned a vacation with his family for this time. Linus offered to hold the summit without him, but the organizers entered Linus's position and voted to move the event from Vancouver to Edinburgh so that he could take part in it without canceling the family trip.

Such a community decision, according to Torvalds, does not correspond to his behavior - he apologized for him. The Linux creator also acknowledged his "careless attacks in emails that were unprofessional and inappropriate."^[1]

Especially at a time when I was doing them myself. In the process of finding the best patch, I needed it. Now I know it's not OK and I'm really sorry... I need time and some help in how to understand people's emotions and respond adequately to them, "he wrote.

Returning to Linux

On October 22, 2018, Linus Torvalds returned to work on Linux a little over a month after he announced his vacation to rethink his role in the Linux community, learn how to communicate with people and understand their feelings.

The return of the creator of Linux was announced by Greg Kroah-Hartman, who temporarily replaced Torvalds as curator of Linux kernel development.

Linus, I'm giving you a Linux kernel branch back. I wish you pleasure in working with the merger window, "wrote Greg Kroa-Hartman in a report on Linux 4.19.

At the Open Source Summit Europe conference in Scotland (October 22-24, 2018), Linus Torvalds met with 40 leading developers, thereby confirming his return to Linux development. 

Linus Torvalds

Commenting on his vacation in September 2018, Linus said that in his communication he never took into account the emotional state of people, was too demanding and rude to other developers, spoiled relations within the community and forced people to refuse to participate in the project. According to him, he understood the importance of human attitude in discussions and looked at himself from the outside.

This is not the first time that Torvalds has decided to temporarily move away from Linux kernel development. He took a similar vacation in 2005, and then during the "rest" he developed the well-known version control system of Git projects.

Meanwhile, Torvalds proposes to adopt a code of conduct for Linux kernel developers based on the well-known Contributor Covenant code, which is already used by many large open source projects.

In the new Code of Conduct, all members of the Linux community have the same rights, regardless of social status, nationality, religion, gender, age, education and other possible differences.^[2]

2024: Support for depriving developers from the Russian Federation of leading statuses

On October 23, 2024, Linux creator Linus Torvalds commented on the exclusion of 11 Russian developers from the list of mainliners of the kernel of this operating system. Torvalds supported the deprivation of leading statuses for programmers from the Russian Federation. Read more here.

Quotes

Famous quotes from Linus (ru.wikiquote.org)

• "Here I want to talk about my golden rules. First, treat others the way you want them to treat you. Following this rule, in any situation you will know what to do. Second: be proud of what you are doing. Third: do everything with pleasure. "
• "Everyone who has read this column will think that the growing hardships of my role as the main hacker have turned me into a bastard. But that's not true. I've always been a bastard. "
• 'The girls I only brought home when they wanted to work out. It wasn't that often, and I was never the initiator, but my father has illusions that they didn't just want to do math. (In his opinion, they bought everything on the same formula: significant nose=significant man). "
• "Programs are like sex: better when it's free."
• "Microsoft is not evil, they just have really lousy operating systems."
• "My name is Linus, and I am your God."
• "You see, not only do you have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you still have to be a cunning son of a bitch."
• Linux philosophy: "Laugh in the face of danger." Oh. Not that. «Do it yourself». Yes, that's right.
• "Some told me that the fat penguin, in their opinion, did not fully represent the grace of Linux. But in my opinion, they just never carried an angry penguin at a speed of 200 km/h. "
• "Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, but so that it is done."
• When you say, "I wrote a program that drops Windows," people just look at you stupidly and answer: "Yes, I got such programs with the system, for free."
• "I have no doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. That's what I strongly doubt, is that it will someday have the kind of impact that those who have to do with virtualization want. "
• 'So most of you are likely to be unbearably lurching with boredom on Christmas Day and here's the perfect entertainment. Test 2.6.15-rc7. All shops will be closed and there won't really be a better activity between eating food.'

Interesting facts

• According to some reports, Torvalds is the author of only 2% of the Linux system kernel, but he makes all the fundamental decisions. Linus himself owns the Linux trademark.

• According to Time magazine for 2000, Torvalds was in 17th place among the "people of the year." The same publication included the programmer in the list of the most influential people in the world in 2004.

• Tux became a symbol of the Linux operating system in 1996, when Torvalds turned to Internet users for help in choosing as an "identification mark." As a result, Larry Ewing was chosen.

• Linus' wife named Tove, whom Torvalds met in the fall of 1993, is a six-time Finnish karate champion. She gave birth to her husband three daughters: Patricia Miranda, Daniela Yolanda and Celeste Amanda.

• Linus Torvalds interrupted his studies at the University in order to complete mandatory service in the Finnish army. The course lasted about 11 months. Linus was promoted to first lieutenant as an artellerist gunner. His army specialization included the tasks of finding and point neutralization of enemy guns and equipment.

Links

• Linus Torvalds answered user questions
• Biography of Linus Torvalds on www.linux.org
• "Just for Fun," by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond