Linus Torvalds Linus Torvalds
(born December 28, 1969) Finnish creator of the Linux operating system in 1991; his motivation was to create a Unix-like Operating System for the x86 processor as an alternative to Windows, which he described as a "broken toy"
Example Sentence: “Linus Torvalds will go down in history as the father of Linux, or "Unix for the masses."”
Part of Speech: proper noun (person)
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