21 lines that show the big man still has what it takes A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux's multithreaded performance ...

Nevertheless, with Torvalds squarely behind the penguin, debate over other possibilities – among them an albatross, a platypus, an eagle and a fox – quickly ended.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That ...

Linus Torvalds has claimed, in various posts to Linux kernel discussion groups over the years, to have been attacked by a "ferocious penguin that bit me and infected me with a little known disease ...

I prearranged to have a hero of mine, Linus Torvalds, pretend to be an unsolicited volunteer for one of the teams and raise his hand for the source code question.

The Linux kernel was originally created by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish computer science student, and first announced to the world on August 25, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. At the time ...

Based on Linux's official website (archived webpage), the decision to make the penguin the main mascot of the company was made by Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds. According to Larry Ewing ...

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Linus Torvalds desk YouTube Linux Foundation A computer operating system called Linux powers most of the servers running the Internet, much of the world's financial trading systems, nearly all of ...

It wasn’t until Linus Torvalds (the creator of Linux) mentioned that he was fond of penguins. That mention pretty much ended the debate and a penguin would become the mascot of Linux.