Linus grew up in Helsinki, Finland, he came from a family of journalist and his parents were radicals. He followed with his families footsteps and enrolled in the University of Helsinki. He majored in computer science because of his interest in computers from his grandfather. Torvald purchased a computer with 33MHz Intel 386 processor and 4MB of memory and was disappointed with the MS-DOS operating system that came with it. He said  it was not advanced enough for what he needed to do also because he was so used to using the University computers.  He was using a version of the UNIX operating system called 'Minix'. Linus and other users sent requests for modifications and improvements to Minix's creator, Andrew Tanenbaum, but he felt that they weren't necessary. He then created the program known ad Linux. Linux is the operating system that came from a kernel created by Linus when he was a student. Linux is an interface between computer/server hardware, and the programs which run on it. It also made it too accept criticism and use it to his advantage when someone said there was a problem they had in the program unlike Tanenbaum. Today, Linux is enjoying a favorable press for the most part. This comes from the fact that Linux has proven to be a tremendously stable and versatile operating system, particularly as a network server.Linux can be installed on a home PC as well as a network server for a fraction of the cost of other companies software packages more reliability and less cost.

http://www.linfo.org/linus.html
http://typicalprogrammer.com/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linux-and-git/
http://www.linux.com/learn/new-user-guides/376-linux-is-everywhere-an-overview-of-the-linux-operating-system