8 interesting anecdotes from the father of Linux, Linus

Abstract: "Just for Fun: The Autobiography of Linus, the Father of Linux" is a very old book. It had a Chinese version in 2001, and was re-translated and published by Turing Books in 2014. Linus is a legendary figure on a par with Steve Jobs, so what anecdotes does this book tell us?

"Just for Fun: The Autobiography of Linus, the Father of Linux" is a very old book. It had a Chinese version in 2001 and was re-translated and published by Turing Books in 2014. Linus is a legendary figure on a par with Steve Jobs, so what anecdotes does this book tell us?

1

Like all computer geniuses, they were exposed to computers early in childhood. For Linus, the Commodore VIC-20 computer of the grandfather of the statistics professor at the time, was programmed in the BASIC language.

2

Linus wrote the Linux operating system while still studying for a master's degree at the University of Helsinki, where Linus spent 8 years. Without Linux, he might have followed in his grandfather's footsteps to become a professor at the University of Helsinki.

3

Linus became a teaching assistant during his master's, teaching introductory computing. In that class he arranged for students to send him an email, most of which were casual, but one of the girls, Taff, emailed him to ask him out on a date. This is how he met his wife.

4

Linux was born in 1991. Linus did not initially want to build an operating system. However, it has been 25 years since 2016, and Linus is still working for Linux. Linux is now the world's largest web collaboration project, with hundreds of thousands of people contributing code to Linux.

5

Linux is open source software that everyone can use freely and freely, so Linus cannot directly benefit from it. However, Linus still got a lot of wealth, mainly from some commercial companies, such as Redhat, when he went public, he was given stock.

6

Linus has a theory of world cognition. He believes that the pursuit of all things first is survival, then social relations, but eventually it must evolve into entertainment.

7

Linus is from Finland, the country of ice and snow, where Nokia is also located. When he graduated from college, he came to work for a technology company in the United States, but did not become a U.S. citizen until 2010.

8

The name Linux was not originally chosen by Linus. He felt arrogant to use his own name. The name comes from the FTP server administrator who originally stored the Linux code. x indicates that this is a Unix-like operating system.

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