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Continued stewarding Linux as a Linux Foundation fellow.
He remains responsible for coordinating kernel development and releases with a global maintainer community.
GOTDONE ARCHIVE · 1969 to present
3 public itemsLinus Torvalds
Software engineer
PHOTO: Krd and Von Sprat / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Started two open-source tools, Linux and Git, that became infrastructure for modern computing and software collaboration.
What Linus got done.
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Created Git.
Torvalds built the distributed version-control system to meet the Linux project’s needs for speed and scale.
03
Announced and released the Linux kernel.
A personal operating-system project grew into one of the largest collaborative software projects in history.