Lifehacker Australia interviews Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is one of the most influential hackers in modern computing, having created the Linux kernel as an open source alternative to the Unix operating system. He’s since spent nearly 20 years maintaining the kernel in a leadership role (as well as continuing to have an active coding role) through the Linux Foundation.
Linus is a regular attendee at Linux.conf.au (last year he was spotted tooling around the conference on a home brew Segway – possibly the geekiest moment in history). He’s back again for LCA this year, and we were thrilled to score an interview with him yesterday.
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