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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts) Sat Dec 28, 2013, 02:21 PM Dec 2013

Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds!

44 years ago, somewhere in Helsinki, the capital and the largest city in Finland, was born Linus Benedict Torvalds, the founding father and the chief architect of the Linux kernel.

Born on December 28, 1969, Linus Torvalds is a Finnish/American software engineer who created the Linux kernel. He also created the extremely popular Git revision control system and Subsurface, an open source diving log software.

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Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds! (Original Post) SecularMotion Dec 2013 OP

Happy Bday Linus.... defacto7 Dec 2013 #1

defacto7

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1. Happy Bday Linus....

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Sun Dec 29, 2013, 04:48 AM

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