Take A Tour Of Where Linus Torvalds Continues To Develop The World's Most Important Operating System

Thursday

Jul 17, 2014 at 11:55 AM

Dylan Love

Linus Torvalds welcomed a video crew into his Portland, Oregon home to give us a tour of the workspace where he continues to work on developing Linux (along with an army of fellow developers) some 23 years after initially releasing it.

It's a fun look into Torvalds's daily life. His old desk covered in "crap" that he "needs to burn down." His newer treadmill workstation, which he calls a "zombie shuffling desk." Scuba equipment. Innumerable stuffed penguins. These are the things that surround Torvalds as he works on one of the most prominent open source software projects there ever has been.

Torvalds's old desk, which he abandoned when it449 F.3d 1265
In re: Dirk KEMPTHORNE Secretary of the Interior in his official capacity, Petitioner.
No. 03-5288.
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
Argued October 14, 2005.
Decided June 9, 2006.

On Petition for Writ of Mandamus to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 96cv01285).
Thomas M. Bondy, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth L. Wainstein, U.S. Attorney, Gregory G. Katsas, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Robert E. Kopp, Mark B. Stern, Alisa B. Klein, Mark R. Freeman, and I. Glenn Cohen, Attorneys. Charles W. Scarborough, Attorney, entered an appearance.
Mark I. Levy argued the cause for respondents. On the brief were Dennis M. Gingold, Elliott H. Levitas, G. William Austin,