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!1. Who is Linus Torvalds?
He wrote the Linux kernel. If you don't know that, why are you reading this?
!2. What does he look like?
-[http://www.tuxedo
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/small-linus.jpg]
+[http://catb
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/small-linus.jpg]
!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://www.tuxedo
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/swedish.au]
+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]
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-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://www.tuxedo
.org/~esr/faqs/linus/english.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].
!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.
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!8. Where does Linus live?
He's now resident in Santa Clara, California, USA, having moved there from Helsinki in early 1997.
!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.
+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.
!10. What editor and mail reader does Linus use?
Linus deftly avoids the most persistent religious war in the hacker community by using neither Emacs nor vi. He uses MicroEmacs. And, we are told, Pine as a mail reader.
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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.
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We suppose this just goes to show he really is human after all.
-!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 Linux than Linus did (The OS, not the kernel).
+!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 Linux than Linus did (The OS, not the kernel).
