Life of Linus Torvalds By hayliebaker Dec 28, 1969 Birth 1980 Linus's grandfather bought him his first personal computer Commodore Vic 20 1988 Attended the University of Helsinki 1991 Purchased his first PC but was not satisfied with the Operating System 1991 Announces his own Operating System 1991 Released Linux 1.0 1992 Linus graduated college 1996 Linux 2.0 released 1997 Took a position with Transmeta Corporation in California 1997 Linus got married to Tove Torvalds 1997 Moved to Santa Clara California 2003 Left Transmeta and worked as a project coordinator of the Open Source Development Lab 2007 Linux Foundation was formed 2008 Inducted in the Hall of fellows of the Computer History Museum for the Linux Kernel 2012 Awarded the Millenium Technology Prize
