Topic - Meet Linus Torvalds Founder of Linux

Meet Linus Torvalds Founder of Linux

- Meet Linus Torvalds
- Built Linux and Git
- Started programming at the age of 10
- Got frustrated with existing operating systems
- At 21, posted a message online:
“I’m doing a free operating system, just a hobby.”
- The project had bugs and limitations
- He made it open source, so others could contribute
- Received million-dollar offers from apple and others, rejected them all

Today, Linux powers:
• Most of the internet
• Android phones
• Supercomputers
• Servers at NASA, Google, and Amazon

- faced another problem: tools for managing code is slow and messy
- He built a new tool
- That tool became Git
Today:
- Git is the backbone of modern software development

- Started as a hobby.
- Ended up changing the world.

Subsection: IT Knowledge
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