In the Linux community, he is generally referred to simply as Linus.
Linus was born in Helsinki, Finland on December 28, 1969. He is one of the Finlandssvensk, a Swedish-speaking group that represents about 6% of the population of Finland. He attended [Helsinki University]?. He currently lives in [Santa Clara, California]? with his wife (a former (six-time?) national Karate(?) champion in Finland) and his two daughters Patricia Miranda and Daniela. He is employed by the [Transmeta Corporation]?.
His personal mascot is the penguin, nicknamed Tux, widely adopted by the Linux community as the mascot of the Linux kernel.
"Linus' Law," a tenet of the Open source model inspired by Linus and coined by Eric S. Raymond is, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
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