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Linus Torvalds, a Legendary card
Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 156
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,000,000
Ranked #1452 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He also created the distributed version control system Git.
- Torvalds was one of the recipients of the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".
- He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Linus Torvalds article was read about 1,000,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Linus Torvalds
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Linus Torvalds (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Krd (photo) Von Sprat (crop/extraction), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.







