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Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

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Just for Fun: Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, The
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Linus Benedict Torvalds ( LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz, Finland Swedish: [ˈliːnʉs ˈtuːrvɑlds] ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel. He also created the distributed version control system Git.

He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.

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119479
MusicBrainz Work ID
ef89485f-7f19-45dd-bf92-fb9069045b7a
OpenLibrary Work ID
OL12494344W
Wikidata Work ID
Q185705

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