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Linus Torvalds is born in Helsinki, Finland to Anna and Nils Torvalds.
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Torvalds begins his study at the University of Helsinki.
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Torvalds takes 8 months off of school to join the Finish military and fill his military service requirement.
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Torvalds would return to school after his military service. During the next few years, he would be acquainted with the Unix operating system and became deeply passionate about computer science.
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Torvalds purchased the Intel 80386-based IBM PC and obtained a MINIX operating system. With this, he began to work and research on the Linux operating system.
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At the end of his schooling, Linus went on a visit to the technology firm, ‘Transmeta’, where he began to work from the following year. He later worked for the Open Source Development Labs.
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In 1997, Torvalds began work on the '86open' project, which is a binary file format for the ‘Unix’ and Unix-like operating systems. They were to be used on a common x86 PC.
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In 1998, he was a recipient of the EFF Pioneer Award.
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In 1999, he was offered stock options for his creation by the companies, Red Hat and VA Linux. That very year, the stock prices increased to about $20 million after the companies went public.
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In 1999, he was given the title of 'one of the top 100 innovators, under the age of 35, in the world' by MIT Technology Review TR100.
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In 2000, he was the recipient of the Lovelace Medal, which was conferred by the British Computer Society.
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In June 2004, along with his family, he relocated to Beaverton, Oregon, where Open Source Development Labs was headquartered. The following year, he developed the software, ‘Git’
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In 2005, he was given the Vollum Award from Reed College.
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By 2006, about two per cent of the Linux kernel was written by him, which was a significant contribution.
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In 2010, he became a citizen of the United States of America.
