Linus Torvalds, he was the person to create the Linux Kernel which is one of the biggest steps in modern computing history. Being born on December 28, 1969 in Finland he was named after famed Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling. He was a minority in Finland as he was Swedish which consisted of 5.5% of it's population at the time.
Torvalds attended at the time the University of Helsinki between 1988 and 1996 where he acquired a master's degree in computer science. His education got derailed in 1989 as he signed up for Officer Training School as it is required in Finland to fulfill the requirement.
He has been a programmer ever since College in 1988 while he was getting his degree in computer science at his school. He worked in California as a programmer in 1997 until about June 2003 where he would move on to pursue other things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Linux is a program in code that enables electronic devices to run the code so they work. While it not the only code that is out there it is very variable and easy to customize.
http://www.linux.org/threads/the-linux-kernel-configuring-the-kernel-part-14.4765/
Linux was created on September 17, 1991 as an easy way to use code to program things that any user could add to, as to increase productivity using it. It has been updated since then and as of this date the last release is at build 3.11.6 on October 18th. You can commonly find that it is updated frequently and has sizable updates to it as well. People who tend to use Linux either in the development sense of it or are consumers as it is in many devices that we use. Such examples are Apple products and many computer systems.
As for the differences between Linux and Windows there are a couple of key ones. For one the file structure is completely different on the Linux and there are no registry's on the Linux as well. This means there is no centralized database that needs cleaning on a Linux. Another big one is that on a Windows the interface barely changed while in Linux you can customize it to anything.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-key-differences-between-windows-and-linux-you-should-know-about-before-switching/
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