Finnish born father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, celebrates his birthday today
Although Finland is (was?) probably best known for being the home of Nokia, one of the other strong roots that also connect the two is Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel.
Nokia has dabbled in Linux based smartphones on their internet tablets, my favourite being the Nokia N900. Maemo 5 on the N900 is still one of my favourite experiences and the N900 is one of my top 5 Nokias to date. The N9 was Nokia’s first MeeGo device for the consumer (N950 for the developers). MeeGo was the combination of two Linux efforts between Intel and Nokia. Now the future of MeeGo lies partly on Sammy with Tizen and the likes of Jolla with Sailfish. Whilst the desktop is dominated by Windows, mobile is in the hands of Android – an OS built on the massive contribution of the open-source Linux community.
Where would all that be without Linus? Perhaps Symbian would still be number 1 :p nHD ftw! :p
Linus was last reported to be an owner of Android handset and has previously stated that Nokia should have gone Android – though he did understand why Nokia went with WP.  In 2012, he was awarded the Millennium Technology Prize in Finland for the creation of Linux.
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