timeline for Linus Torvalds By warrior_az@icloud.com 1969 1969: Born on December 28 in Helsinki, Finland couldnt find a real image for him as a kid 1981 1981: at age 11, begins programming on his grandpas VIC-20 1987 reads OPERATING SYSTEMS: designs and implantation helps him make linux 1988 university 1988 for community science 1991 First Linux Kernel Release 1992 linux becomes free and open source 1996 Joins Transmeta Corporation 1997 linux kernel 2.0 released better stability and improvements made 2002 Leaves Transmeta to work full-time on the Linux kernel 2005 Creates Git, a distributed version control system 2008 Inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows 2009 linux version 2.6.29 "tux on ice" 2012 Inducted into the Computer History Museum's Hall of Fellows 2014 Awarded the IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award. 2018 Receives the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
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