8 anecdotes from Linus, the father of Linux

"Just for fun: the father of Linux Linus autobiography" is a very old book, in 2001 there is a Chinese version, in 2014 when Turing book re-translated and published.

Linus is a legendary figure that can be compared to Steve Jobs, so what anecdotes are there in this book?

#1

As with all computer geniuses, computers were exposed early in childhood. For Linus, at that time the statistics Professor Grandfather's CommodoreVIC-20 computer, using the basic language to write programs.

#2

Linus wrote a Linux operating system and was also a master at the University of Helsinki, where Linus spent 8 years. If there is no Linux, then he is likely to follow his grandfather's footsteps as a professor at the University of Helsinki.

#3

Linus became a teaching assistant during his master's degree and taught computer introduction. In that class he arranged for the students to send an e-mail to him, most of the content of the mail is very casual, but one of the girl Pita sent an e-mail to invite him out on a date. He met his wife in such a way.

#4

Linux was born in 1991, Linus originally did not want to build an operating system, but this worked to 2016 this year, has been 25 years, Linus still working for Linux. Linux is now the world's largest network collaboration project, with hundreds of thousands of of people working on the Linux contribution code.

#5

Linux is open source software, everyone is free to use freely, Linus can not directly derive benefits from it. Linus's main asset comes from a commercial company that acquires wealth through Linux, such as the shares that Redhat gave him when he was listed.

#6

Linus has a theory about world cognition. He believes that all things start with survival, then social relations, but eventually it will become entertainment.

#7

Linus is from the frozen country of Finland and is where Nokia resides. When he graduated from college, he came to work for a technology company in the United States, but didn't join American citizenship until 2010.

#8

The name Linux was not originally Linus, and he felt a bit arrogant with his name from the FTP server administrator who originally stored the Linux code.

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8 anecdotes from Linus, the father of Linux