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Linus was born in Helsinki, Finland
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Discovers interest in compters with the Commodore VIC-20 computer at age 11.
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Linus began his education at the University of Helsinki
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As per the Finnish military laws, Linus had to join the military, opting for an 11 month officer training course. He would achieve the rank of second lieutenant, as a ballistic calculations officer.
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On January 5th, 1991, Linus bought an Intel 80836-based IBM clone computer, then a copy of MINIX, which allowed he to begin work on Linux.
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In 1991, Linus meets Lars Wirzenius who takes him to a speech by Richard Stallman. This is where Linus discovered the GNU GPL which would be used to release Linux to the public.
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On September 17th, 1991, the first verison of Linux was released online.
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The official Version 1.0 of Linux was released on March 14th, 1994
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Linus graduated in 1996 with a Masters Degree in Computer Science
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In 1996, Linus visited Transmeta, and got a job there. The company would go through mergers and changes to ultimately become the Linux Foundation. Linus is sponsored by the Linux Foundation to work full time on Linux.
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In 1999, the MIT Technology Review named Linus as one of the world's top 100 innvoators under age 35.
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In 1999, the companies Red Hat and VA Linux gave Linus stock options because of his creation (they were both Linux based companies).
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In the book "Cathedral and the Bazzar", the author describes a law he calls "Linus' Law", wherein, if you have enough people debugging code, there will be at least one person who can spot and fix the bug. This was in response to the open source model of Linux.
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Linus moved his family to Oregon to be closer to the Linux Foundation headquarters.
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Due to controversy for using a proprietary version control software for Linux, Linus developed an open source version control software for Linux called Git. It was also release under the GNU GPL.
