Linus Torvald was an American software engineer that developed the idea of the Linux Kernal. Linus
was born in Finland and later moved to the United States. He attended college in Finland and later got a masters degree in Computer Science. He is known for his most famous invention the Linux Kernal. Forbes magazine holds such a high esteem for Linus cause they believe just like many other people that he has made many more inventions in his day but this was the piece of work that made him at he is the greatest programmer ever. It made him famous. He has been a programmer for 21 years, so you could say he knows what he's doing in the programming field. Linus wanted to create a free software for programmers. Linux is an operating system that evolved from a kernel . Linux is not like a word processing program. It is a interface between computer serving, hardware and the programs that run on it. This was created in 1991. Linux is used by a variety of programming users, and it brings a different way of programming to the table. But, like everything good there has to be some bad to it, like disadvantages. Some advantages of Linux are it is easy to use, very user friendly, it doesn't crash, it has a free software and it also runs on old machines. Some disadvantages of Linux are some incompatibility issues, and also its different working mechanisms. I believe that he is the best programmer ever because out of all the information I have looked up about programming I found the most information on him and I have liked a lot of his work he has done.
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