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Brashares, Ann

Linus Torvalds: Software Rebel

80 pp. | Lerner/Twenty-first Century | August, 2001 | Library ISBN 0-7613-1960-3 $$22.90
(4) 4-6 Techies series. Although the books in this series include biographical information, their strength is the clear way they present computer history and technology and highlight their subjects' contributions to it. Torvalds's operating system Linux, Ellison's relational database Oracle, and Yang and Filo's Yahoo! search engine are discussed in journalistic prose illustrated with bland, sometimes tangential stock black-and-white photos. Bib., ind. [Review covers these Techies titles: Linus Torvalds, Larry Ellison, Jerry Yang and David Filo.]
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian

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