Linus

Linus /leen'us'/ or /lin'us'/, not /li:'nus/

Linus Torvalds, the author of Linux. Nobody in the hacker culture has been as readily recognized by first name alone since Ken (Thompson).

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

"Linus, natione Italus, regionis Tusciae, patre Herculano, sedit ann. XI m. III d. XII. Fuit autem temporibus Neronis, a consulato Saturnini et Scipionis usque ad Capitone et Rufo consulibus. Martyrio coronatur. Hic ex praecepto beati Petri constituit ut mulier in ecclesia velato capite introiret. Hic fecit ordinationes II, episcopos XV, presbiteros XVIII. Qui sepultus est iuxta corpus beati Petri, in Vaticano, sub die VIIII kal. octubris."

"Linus, Italian by birth, from the region of Tuscany, whose father was Herculanus, was pope for eleven years, three months, and twelve days. This was in the time of Nero, from the consulate of Saturninus and Scipionis (in A.D. 56) to that of Capito and Rufus (in A.D. 67). He was crowned a martyr. According to the precept of the blessed Peter, he established that women should enter churches with their heads veiled. He performed two ordinations, (consecrated) fifteen bishops and eighteen priests. He was buried next to the body of the blessed Peter, in the Vatican, on the ninth day before the Kalends of October (23 September)."