Just for Fun

The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

Linus Torvalds, David J. Diamond (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2001
TEXERE Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-58799-080-9 (ISBN)

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This is the story of Linus Torvalds, the maverick Finnish computer genius who invented the powerful LINUX operating system. As well as being free, LINUX is more powerful and stable than anything that Microsoft can offer, thus making Torvalds Bill Gates' number one enemy. Today, LINUX is exploding on to the market, and its creator is household. Linus Torvalds is already a folk hero within the technolgy world, often mobbed at trade shows and forever asked to give interviews by the media. But Torvalds is a most unlikely celebrity: a family man, he lives in a cramped house in Santa Clara with his wife, Tove, a Finnish karate champion, and their two daughters. He claims to this day that he invented LINUX "just for fun".

Linus Torvalds is the creator of the LINUX operating system and head of the Open Source movement. He presently works at Transmeta Corp, a secretive company that designs cutting-edge microchips.

Birth of a nerd; birth of an operating system; king of the ball; intellectual property; an end to control; the amusement ride ahead; why open source makes sense; fame and fortune; the meaning of life II.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.6.2001
Verlagsort	Florence
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10	1-58799-080-6 / 1587990806
ISBN-13	978-1-58799-080-9 / 9781587990809
Zustand	Neuware