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Linus was born in Helsinki Finland -
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Linus attended University of Helsinki. He started in 1988 -
Fulfilled mandatory service by joining officer training program -
Torvalds put the first prototype of Linux onto a server of the Finnish University and Research Network
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Linus released Linus 1.0 to the public -
Graduated University of Helsinki with a master's degree in Computer Science
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Linus takes part in a project called 86open. This project helped choose the standard binary code used in Linux and Unix
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Torvalds worked in California February 1997- June 2003. He continued to work in the US in other places including Oregon.
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MIT Technology Review names Linus one of the top 100 innovators under 35
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Red Hat and VA Linux offer Linus stock in their growing companies. At one-point values at about $20million
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Torvalds Published a book 'Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolution' -
Time Magazine names him Most Influential People in The World -
GIT was a software that was very similar to an operating system for computers. He would pass off the responsibility of maintaining this software later in 2005
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Linus had written merely 2% of the existing Linux kernel. The rest done by people from around the world. -
Linus became a US citizen and registered to vote in the US. -
Free and Open-Source Software used to plan and log scuba dives.