I always wanted to be surrounded by young women, and you made it so. To Tove and Patricia, Daniela, and Celeste. Preface: The Meaning of Life I (Sex, War, Linux) The result is an engrossing portrayal of a man with a revolutionary vision, who challenges our values and may change our world. Now, in a narrative that zips along with the speed of e-mail, Torvalds gives a history of his renegade software while candidly revealing the quirky mind of a genius. And his creation LINUX is used by over 12 million people as well as by companies such as IBM. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet-for free. Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood.
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