Fresh from receiving technology prize plaudits, Linux creator Torvalds is still telling it how it is.

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Linus Torvalds of Linux was 22.

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As Torvalds rolled out new versions of Linux, it stood for more than free software.

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Mr Torvalds released the first version of the Linux kernel in 1991, when he was a 21-year-old computer-science student at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Torvalds, who keeps control of the Linux kernel, or core functionality, promised that the next version of Linux would run on servers with more than one processor, a big step up in computing power.

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Linux(R) is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

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We focused on 28-year-old Linus Torvalds, a Finn who in 1991 wrote the first version of Linux, operating system software that has become the darling of hard-core computer users.

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On January 4th, Linus Torvalds, the Finnish programmer who co-ordinates the development of Linux (see article), quietly released the latest version of the Linux kernel the software that, as its name suggests, is at the core of the operating system.

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"I never really intended or expected Linux to become the kind of big cooperative movement that it has, " says Torvalds.

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