Linus Torvalds built the Linux operating system kernel as a hobby project in his Helsinki bedroom, then created Git — the version control system that underpins virtually all modern software development. He is one of the most consequential technologists alive, and he is also famously, deliberately rude — sending profanity-laced emails to contributors, calling people's code garbage, and treating social niceties as an inefficiency the world can do without.
This episode traces Torvalds from his Finnish childhood through the Linux kernel project, the creation of Git, and the personality that made him both indispensable and impossible to work with.
The Helsinki bedroom where Linux began as a personal project and became the world's most important open-source operating system
The open-source philosophy and why Torvalds gave Linux away for free
The creation of Git in ten days and its transformation of software development
The famous rudeness, the code-of-conduct controversy, and the debate over whether genius excuses bad behavior
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