The Guy that created the Kernal

Linus Torvalds a computer scientist, born in Helsinki Finland on the 28th of December. He is best known as "that guy that created the kernel" for Linux operating systems. He attended the University of Helsinki and started with the UNIX basics. He created the original source code and released it for free making him a hero among his peers. Today Linux is the leader when it comes to the practice of reprograming your own operating systems. Torvalds received a Master’s degree from the Department of Computer science at the University of Helsinki. A short two years later he then received a honor doctor status from Stockholm University and in 2000 he obtained an honor for alma mater. Torvalds started off as a typical programmer whose hobby became one of the widely used source codes. He has been programing for about 20 years. When he wrote the code Torvalds wanted to call the Kernel he created “Freax” pronounced freaks. It was a combination of free freak and the letter X to indicate it is a UNIX like product. But unfortunately his friend Ari Lemmke L who administered the server where the kernel was made and downloaded named the directory Linux, WHAT A HATER!

Linux in a nutshell is an operating system. It’s the software and essentials on a computer that makes applications and the computer operator to access devices located on the computer and performs certain tasks. The operator or operating system also referred to as O.S relays instructions to different parts of the computer. To sum it all up Linux is very similar to other operating systems such as Windows and OSX. It can be found on and powers everything from stock exchange to mobile phones to giant computers and consumer devices. Windows is expensive compared to Linux but Linux requires a bit of knowledge to operate.
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