(9793) Torvalds is a Astéroïde of the principal Ceinture, discovered on January 16th, 1996 within the framework of the program Spacewatch. It bears the name of the Informaticien at the origin of the Noyau Linux, the Finnish Linus Torvalds.

The data processing specialist Linus Torvalds (born in 1969) created the operating system Linux used by Spacewatch and many other projects of asteroids for the collection and the data analysis. The development of Linux implied a great collaboration on Internet and showed the possibilities of the free trade of information.

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