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-!!The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ
-...a collection of trivia and personal facts about Linus.
+!
!! The Rampantly Unofficial Linus Torvalds FAQ
-!1. Who is
Linus Torvalds?
-He wrote the Linux kernel
. If you don't know that, why are you reading this?
+… a collection of trivia and personal facts about
Linus.
-!2. What does he look like?
-[http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/small-linus.jpg]
+#
! Basic facts
-!3. How should I pronounce `
Linus'?
-If you're speaking Swedish (his milk tongue) it's /lee'nus/
. You can hear this
in an [audio file|http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish.au]
-%%%
-If you're speaking English
, Linus answers to either /lie'nus/ (long i) or /li'nus/ (short i)
. We have
a sound file of Linus [pronouncing his name in English|http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/english.au]
.
+
Linus was born December 28th 1969 in Finland
. He grew up
in Helsinki
, the capital of Finland and its largest city
. He wrote the LinuxKernel while
a student at Helsinki University
.
-!4
. Where is Linus from?
-Finland. He grew up in Helsinki (the capital of Finland and its largest city). He wrote the Linux kernel while a student at Helsinki University
.
+ [http://catb
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/small-linus
.jpg]
-!5. When was he born
?
-December 28th 1969.
+#
! How should I pronounce “Linus”
?
-!6.
If Linus is Finnish, why is his birth language
Swedish?
-Finland has a significant
(about 6%
) Swedish-speaking minority population. They call themselves ``finlandssvensk
'' or ``finlandssvenskar'' and consider themselves Finns; many of their families have lived in Finland for centuries
. Swedish is one of Finland's two official languages
.
+
If you’re speaking
Swedish (his milk tongue
) it’s [/lee
'nus/|http://catb
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish
.au]
-!7. What is
Linus's middle name?
-Many people seem
to think think Linus
's middle name is "God"
. A few claim it ought to be Eric. But in fact
his middle
name is `Benedict'
. He doesn't use it much
.
+ If you’re speaking English,
Linus answers
to either /lie
'nus/ (long i) or /li'nus/ (short i)
. We have a sound file of Linus [pronouncing
his name in English|http://catb
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/english.au]
.
-!8. Where does
Linus live
?
-He's now resident in Portland, Oregon USA, since about one year after this page was last edited in 2003. Formerly of Santa Clara, California, USA, having moved there from Helsinki in early 1997.
+#
! If
Linus is Finnish, why is his birth language Swedish
?
-!9
. Does Linus
have a home page?
-He has
one at [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds]; it'
s got an animated penguin and cute pictures of his baby daughter Patricia Miranda Torvalds
.
+ Finland has a significant (about 6%) Swedish-speaking minority population
. They call themselves “finlandssvensk” or “finlandssvenskar” and consider themselves Finns; many of their families
have lived in Finland for centuries. Swedish is
one of Finland’
s two official languages
.
-!10.
What editor and mail reader does
Linus use
?
-Linus deftly avoids the most persistent ReligiousWar in the [Hacker] community by using neither [Emacs] nor [vi|vi(1)]. He uses !MicroEmacs. And, we are told, Pine as a mail reader.
+#
! What is
Linus’s middle name
?
-!11. What is
Linus'
s email address?
-At one time you could probably reach him at torvalds@transmeta
.com. You could probably find
it easily enough or just go read the kernel mailing list
to find out what he
is up to
.
He's keeping a blog on the [Linux Foundation|http://www.linuxfoundation.org/] website these days
.
+ Many people seem to think think
Linus’
s middle name is “God”
. A few claim
it ought
to be Eric. But in fact his middle name
is “Benedict”
. He doesn’t use it much
.
-%%%
-Note: because
Linus is who he is, he gets a staggering amount of email that he has to deal with. Don't waste his time. Linus is too nice a guy to hurt you if you abuse this address, but there are probably about a hundred thousand people who would be displeased enough to mess with you if you did.
+# ! Where does
Linus live?
-!12. What does Linus do when he'
s not hacking Linux?
-* He works for the Open Source Development Lab.
-* He plays with his baby daughters
, Patricia Miranda and Daniela
.
-* He drinks beer (especially Guinness). Occasionally
he shoots pistols. He does not combine these two activities.
-* He enjoys driving his BMW Z3.
-* Yes
, he
in fact has a life. We await enlightenment on his other leisure-time activities. Assuming he wants to talk about them
.
+ He’
s now resident in Portland
, Oregon USA
. Until 2004
he lived in Santa Clara, California
, USA, having moved there from Helsinki
in early 1997
.
-!13.
Linus took
a job with a non-Linux company
?
-Yes, he did. There is a rumor that he considered going to work for Red Hat, but did not want to show favoritism towards any one Linux vendor. Linus has declined to either confirm or deny this rumor. He uses Red Hat at work and SuSE at home.
+#
! Does
Linus have
a weblog
?
-!13. Has Linus ever been wrong about anything?
-once
. He was, by his own admission, "not rational" about the binding of the Linux backspace key
. This is also about the only time he
has ever pulled rank on anybody
.
-%%%
-We suppose this just goes to show he really
is human after all
.
+
Yes, see [http://torvalds-family
.blogspot
.com/]. (He
has a homepage at [http://www
.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds] too, but it
is long outdated
.)
-(
Linus does not get put into Category:Politics; he just does the job, he very carefully avoids all the politicing surrounding [Free] vs [free] etc.)
+# ! What TextEditor and MailClient does
Linus use?
-!14. Is there anyone else who often gets forgotten when we talk about Linux?
-Yes.
[RMS
] is often forgotten. Remember
, he actually probably wrote more of
[GNU
]/[Linux] than Linus did (The OS, not the kernel)
.
+ He uses neither
[Emacs
] nor [vi|vi(1)], but ~MicroEmacs. His MailClient
is Alpine
, an improved
[PINE
] clone
.
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+# ! Has Linus ever been wrong about anything?
+
+ Yes, once. He was, by his own admission, “not rational” about the binding of the Linux backspace key. This is also about the only time he has ever pulled rank on anybody.
+
+ We suppose this just goes to show he really is human after all.
+
+ (Linus does not get put into Category:Politics; he just does the job, he very carefully avoids all the politicing surrounding [Free] vs [free] etc.)
+
+
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