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	Nils Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Nils Torvalds works with Swedish language radio and TV in Finland.
		Known to most as Nikke Torvalds, he is the son of the poet Ole Torvalds, and the father of the computer programmer Linus Torvalds of Linux kernel fame.
		Torvalds was active in the Communist Party while he was a college student during the 1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nils_Torvalds (181 words)

	Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Torvalds attended the University of Helsinki from 1988 to 1996, graduating with a master's degree in computer science.
		However, Torvalds thought the name "Linux" was too egotistical and planned to rename it Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system).
		Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark, and monitors [2] use (or abuse) of it chiefly through the non-profit organization Linux International.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linus_Torvalds (1060 words)

	Encyclopedia: Linus Torvalds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Anna and Nils, and the grandson of poet Ole Torvalds.
		Linus is married to Tove Torvalds (nee Minni).
		Himanen, Pekka; Torvalds, Linus; and Castells, Manuel (2001) The Hacker Ethic, Secker and Warburg.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Linus-Torvalds (3414 words)

	Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Torvalds and his family recently moved to the Portland, Oregon area in an effort to be closer to his employer.
		Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his own OS; he gave a working name of Linux (Linus' Minix); but thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system).
		Only about 2% of the current Linux kernel is written by Torvalds himself, though he remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the Linux kernel; other operating system aspects (both user visible and invisible) such as the X Window System, gcc and various package management schemes are run by others.
	www.info-en.com /index.php/Linus_Torvalds (1077 words)

	Ole Torvalds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ole Torvalds (1916-1995) was a Finland-Swedish journalist and poet from Finland.
		He was the father of Nils Torvalds and grandfather of Linus Torvalds.
		In 1935 when he had moved to Helsinki for studies he changed his name to Torvalds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ole_Torvalds (175 words)

	Linus Torvalds biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his own OS; he gave a working name of Linux (Linus' Minix); but thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system).
		Only about 2% of the current Linux kernel is written by Torvalds himself, though he remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the Linux kernel [3]; other operating system aspects (both user visible and invisible) such as the X Window System, gcc and various package management schemes are run by others.
		Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark, and monitors [4] use (or abuse) of it chiefly through the non-profit organization Linux International.
	linus-torvalds.biography.ms (1118 words)

	Linus Torvalds - Linux Wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Anna and Nils Torvalds, and the grandson of poet Ole Torvalds.
		Torvalds was embarassed when other children would tease him about his father's political views.
		Himanen, Pekka; Torvalds, Linus; and Castells, Manuel (2001).
	linux.wikicities.com /wiki/Linus_Torvalds (1062 words)

	Prehistory
		Linus Torvalds was born Dec 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland.
		Torvalds is a rare surname: "There are probably something like twenty five people in the world with that last name," Linus says.
		Torvalds' intellectual acumen became apparent when he was 8 years old, says his father, Nils.
	www.softpanorama.org /People/Torvalds/Finland_period/prehistory.shtml (3955 words)

	php-deluxe.net - description: Linus-Torvalds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Anna and Nils+Torvalds, and the grandson of poet Ole+Torvalds.
		Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his own OS; he gave a working name of Linux (Linus's Minix); but thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to have it named ''Freax'' (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate a Unix-like system).
		Torvalds owns the "Linux" trademark, and monitors [http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/19/0828245.shtml] use (or abuse) of it chiefly through the non-profit organization Linux+International.
	www.php-deluxe.net /wiwimod,index.page,Linus-Torvalds.htm (1286 words)

	Linus Torvalds
		Torvalds earned his masters degree in computer science at the University of Helsinki, where the computers ran UNIX, an operating system designed by Bell Labs.
		Torvalds had a PC that came with Microsoft's crappy and crash-prone operating system, MS-DOS, and of course, he hated it.
		The kernel written by Torvalds comprises about 2% of the current Linux, but he still makes the ultimate decisions about which modifications are added and which aren't.
	www.nndb.com /people/444/000022378 (480 words)

	Linus Torvalds
		In 1991 Linus Torvalds, a 21-year-old computer science student at the University of Helsinki, Fin., having just purchased his first personal computer (PC), decided that he was not satisfied with the computer's operating system (OS).
		He made the software available for free downloading, and, as was a common practice among software developers at the time, he released the source code, which meant that anyone with knowledge of computer programming could modify Linux to suit their own purposes.
		Torvalds said he had no qualms with Gates's or Microsoft's financial success--he simply detested poorly engineered software.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/torvalds_linus.html (879 words)

	Linus Torvalds
		Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his own OS; he gave a working name of Linux (Linus' Minix); but thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate a
		Ari Lemmke encouraged Torvalds to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded.
		Torvalds tends to stay out of non-kernel-related debates, even among their developers.
	en.efactory.pl /Linus_Torvalds (1926 words)

	Intro to CE - Open Source (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Linus Torvalds was born in Helsinki Finland on December 28, 1969, to Nils and Anna Torvalds.
		Torvalds moved to San Jose, California where he lived for a while with his wife Tove and his three daughters.
		Torvalds is well regarded in the computer world and is even worshiped as a god by some in the Linux community.
	www.rit.edu /~adp5930/IntroCE/history.htm (333 words)

	Linus Torvalds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A humourous aside to this is that Linus' middle name "Benedict" can be seen in the first four letters of Benevolent and Dictator.
		He is neutral enough to even have been criticized by the GNU project, specifically for having worked on proprietary software with Transmeta and for his use and alleged advocation of Bitkeeper.
		Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his own OS; he gave a working name of Linux (Linus' Minix); but thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to have it named Freax (a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter x).
	encyclopedia.jigyasa.in /wikipedia/l/li/linus_torvalds.html (736 words)

	Linus Torvalds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) began the development of Linux, an operating system kernel, and today acts as the project co-ordinator.
		Torvalds was born in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as the son of Nils and Anna Torvalds[?] and named after Linus Pauling.
		Linus Torvalds currently lives in Santa Clara, California with his wife Tove (six times national Karate champion in Finland), who he first met in fall 1993, and his three daughters Patricia Miranda (born December 5, 1996), Daniela Yolanda (born April 16, 1998) and Celeste Amanda (born November 20, 2000).
	www.city-search.org /li/linus-torvalds.html (878 words)

	World Tribune.com: Scott McCollum guest commentary
		Torvalds, the son of socialist Finnish radio commentator Nils Torvalds who often sided with Soviet leadership in world matters during the Cold War, was a computer science student at a university in Helsinki.
		Torvalds, unable to afford the expensive Unix workstations for personal use, began to reverse engineer the Unix OS for use on his inexpensive home computer.
		True to his family’s socialist radical politics, Torvalds released his OS under the non-standard General Public License (GPL) or “copyleft.” Under the GPL, programmers had the ability to download Torvalds’ Linux, fix the bugs in his program and give the improved program back to him to distribute to the Linux community.
	www.worldtribune.com /wta/Archive-2001/mc10_05.html (1195 words)

	Salon Free Software Project \| Finland -- the open-source society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Torvalds himself notes that Finland simply isn't as cut-throatishly competitive a society as the United States -- there's more of a sense that everyone benefits from a comprehensive safety net.
		It's one of the amusing paradoxes of free software: Linus Torvalds, a paragon of pragmatism, currently working in the heart of Silicon Valley for a highly capitalized start-up that epitomizes the way business is done in the free market global economy, grew up in atmosphere drenched in socialist practice and rhetoric.
		Neither of Torvalds' parents are communists any longer; both are journalists, his father for television and radio, his mother as a translator.
	www.salon.com /tech/fsp/2000/04/20/chapter_six_part_1/print.html (5271 words)

	USATODAY.com - Naked truth on Finnish business strategy: Start with sauna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His name is Nils Torvalds, and in Finland, he's a well-known TV reporter, now assigned to cover Washington.
		In fact, the first thing I learn from Nils is that the sauna is part of Finland's competitive advantage — one reason, for instance, that Nokia dominates in cell phones.
		Not only is Nils on Finnish TV, but Linus' grandfather — Ole Torvald Elis Saxberg, also known as Karanko — was a prize-winning poet and journalist in Finland and Sweden.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/maney/2003-10-28-sauna_x.htm (914 words)

	LUG:ng - Linus Torvalds
		Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland.
		He is the son of Nils and Anna Torvalds.
		Linus Torvalds enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988 where he studied computer science.
	www.lugng.org /Philosophy/LinusTorvalds (665 words)

	www.johnshepp.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use.
		Torvalds was born in 1969 and grew up in Helsinki, father Nils Torvalds(eds.).
		Meanwhile, Torvalds had taken a position with Transmeta Corp., owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, working on a top-secret project that many in the high-tech community assumed would involve some future assault on the Microsoft empire.
	johnshepp.org /hackers (1836 words)

	Salon Free Software Project \| Finland -- the open-source society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For some reason, one of the world's largest repositories of freely redistributable software could be found in a small Northern European country previously most famous for sauna baths and Sibelius.
		Today, Finland is famous for other reasons -- notably, for being the original home of both Nokia, the world's largest and most profitable manufacturer of mobile phones, and Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
		I talked with people who had studied under Torvalds' maternal grandfather, a well-known professor of statistics, and who were used to watching his father, a television reporter, deliver dispatches from the war in Chechnya.
	www.salon.com /tech/fsp/2000/04/20/chapter_six_part_1/index.html (886 words)

	LWN: Nils Magnus (of LinuxTag) on Security and aKademy (KDE.News)
		interview with Nils Magnus of LinuxTag about security on the desktop.
		"Nils: I work with a Linux system that was set-up from an installed Knoppix with some adjustments for a more secure operation.
		I travel a lot, so I use computers in environments where I can not be sure about their integrity (e.g.
	lwn.net /Articles/96953 (142 words)

	Linux-Alpha Archive by subject
		Nils Haberland Thu, 22 Feb 1996 14:56:38 +0100
		Nils Haberland Thu, 22 Feb 1996 15:52:29 +0100
		Nils Haberland Thu, 22 Feb 1996 13:54:11 +0100
	www.uwsg.indiana.edu /hypermail/linux/alpha/9602/subject.html (1038 words)

	1. An Introduction to Linux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in Helsinki, son of Nils and Anna Torvalds, Linus is world renowned for being the driving force behind Linux as we know it.
		Both of his parents were campus radicals at the University of Helsinki, his father a Communist, which caused no end of trouble for Linus and other children used to make fun of his fathers political stance.
		Generally, Linus is a silent pillar to the Linux community, rarely commenting on the competition, however, he has been known to speak up when he has to.
	www.sucs.org /~vortex/appa.html (150 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I also sought the answer to a question I must have been subconsciously mulling over ever since I waited for that first software program from 10,000 miles away to creep across my 2400 baud modem in 1993.
		Today, Finland is famous for other reasons -- notably, for being the original home of both Nokia, the world's largest and most profitable manufacturer of mobile phones, and Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
		Nokia, the world's largest and most profitable manufacturer of mobile phones, and Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux.
	dir.salon.com /tech/fsp/2000/04/20/chapter_six_part_1 (6533 words)

	LKML: Nils Philippsen: Re: Linux-2.1.129.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >..is out there.
		To a large degree is more merges for PPC and Sparc (and > somehow I must have missed ARM _again_, so I'll have to find that).
		Nils -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nils Philippsen @college: nils@fht-esslingen.de Vogelsangstrasse 115 @home: nils@wombat.dialup.fht-esslingen.de D 70197 Stuttgart phone: +49-711-6599405 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maybe I should patent stupidity so every lawyer will owe me BIG !!
	lkml.org /lkml/1998/11/20/43 (233 words)

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		However, in the 1990's the FSF was having trouble developing the operating system kernel [FSF 1998]; without a kernel their dream of a completely free operating system would not be realized.
		The pointer value that means ``does not point anywhere'' is called NULL; C compilers will convert the integer 0 to the value NULL in most circumstances where a pointer is needed, but note that nothing in the C standard requires that NULL actually be implemented by a series of all-zero bits.
		Because there are so many different approaches to implementing more sophisticated security models, Linus Torvalds has requested that a generic approach be developed so different security policies can be inserted; for more information about this, see [http://mail.wirex.com/mailman /listinfo/linux-security-module] http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/ linux-security-module.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO (20012 words)

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