Linus Torvalds— definition, example and pronunciation in USA and UK English

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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"
Linus Torvalds will go down in history as the father of Linux, the 'Unix for the masses'.