Linus Torvalds Receives IEEE Computer Pioneer Award 141
mikejuk (1801200) writes "Linus Torvalds, the 'man who invented Linux' is the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award, '[f]or pioneering development of the Linux kernel using the open-source approach.' According to Wikipedia, Torvalds had wanted to call the kernel he developed Freax (a combination of 'free,' 'freak,' and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server it was first hosted for download, named Torvalds' directory linux. In some ways Git can be seen as his more important contribution — but as it dates from 2005 it is outside the remit of the IEEE Computer Pioneer award."
Re:Git can be seen as his more important contribut (Score:4, Funny)
Not to mention that hadn't Torvalds developed the Linux kernel, we would still be waiting for the Hurd to take off.
We're not still waiting for the Hurd to take off?