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<blockquote data-quote="Ecko" data-source="post: 366544" data-attributes="member: 24874"><p><strong>Linus Benedict Torvalds</strong> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" target="_blank">/ˈlaɪnəsˈtɔːrvɔːldz/</a>;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>Swedish: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Swedish" target="_blank">[ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds]</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sv-Linus_Torvalds2.ogg" target="_blank"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/13px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus_Torvalds2.ogg" target="_blank">listen</a>); born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#cite_note-citLinus-2" target="_blank">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#cite_note-oreg100914-6" target="_blank">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering" target="_blank">software engineer</a>, who is the creator of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel" target="_blank">Linux kernel</a> and for a long time, principal developer; that became the kernel for operating systems (and many <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution" target="_blank">distributions</a> of each), such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU" target="_blank">GNU</a> and years later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" target="_blank">Android</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS" target="_blank">Chrome OS</a>. He also created the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control" target="_blank">distributed revision control</a>system <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)" target="_blank">git</a>. He was honored, along with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka" target="_blank">Shinya Yamanaka</a>, with the 2012 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Technology_Prize" target="_blank">Millennium Technology Prize</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Academy_Finland" target="_blank">Technology Academy Finland</a> "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".</p><p></p><p>Calling Linux an operating system just shows your lack of understanding on the subject. Can I go and buy a laptop, completely wipe the hard drive and install the supposed Linux operating system on it? No. I could install a GNU/Linux operating system or an operating system based off of the Linux kernel, but I cannot install "the" Linux operating system because no such thing exists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ecko, post: 366544, member: 24874"] [B]Linus Benedict Torvalds[/B] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English']/ˈlaɪnəsˈtɔːrvɔːldz/[/URL];[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#cite_note-5'][5][/URL]Swedish: [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_Swedish'][ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds][/URL] ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sv-Linus_Torvalds2.ogg'][IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Speaker_Icon.svg/13px-Speaker_Icon.svg.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL='https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Sv-Linus_Torvalds2.ogg']listen[/URL]); born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish-American[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#cite_note-citLinus-2'][2][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#cite_note-oreg100914-6'][6][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering']software engineer[/URL], who is the creator of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel']Linux kernel[/URL] and for a long time, principal developer; that became the kernel for operating systems (and many [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution']distributions[/URL] of each), such as [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU']GNU[/URL] and years later [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)']Android[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_OS']Chrome OS[/URL]. He also created the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control']distributed revision control[/URL]system [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)']git[/URL]. He was honored, along with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka']Shinya Yamanaka[/URL], with the 2012 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Technology_Prize']Millennium Technology Prize[/URL] by the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_Academy_Finland']Technology Academy Finland[/URL] "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". Calling Linux an operating system just shows your lack of understanding on the subject. Can I go and buy a laptop, completely wipe the hard drive and install the supposed Linux operating system on it? No. I could install a GNU/Linux operating system or an operating system based off of the Linux kernel, but I cannot install "the" Linux operating system because no such thing exists. [/QUOTE]
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