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Linus Roache
Linus Roache (born 1964, Manchester) is a British actor, son of William Roache, known for Priest, Michael Cutter on Law & Order, King Ecbert in Vikings, and My Policeman.
Linus Sebastian
Linus Sebastian, full name Linus Gabriel Sebastian, is a Canadian technology YouTuber and entrepreneur who founded the Linus Tech Tips channel and Linus Media Group in Surrey, British Columbia.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer, born in 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, who created the Linux kernel in 1991 and the Git version control system in 2005.
Linus Van Pelt
Linus Van Pelt is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles Schulz, debuting September 19, 1952. Known for his security blanket (which popularized the term), Great Pumpkin belief, Luke 2 Nativity recital in A Charlie Brown Christmas, and as Lucy's younger brother.
Linux
Linux is a free, open source operating system started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, running on Android phones, cloud servers, and all 500 top supercomputers.
Linux distribution
A Linux distribution, or Linux distro, is a complete operating system built around the Linux kernel with a package manager, such as Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu.
Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is an American nonprofit that supports and hosts open source software projects, formed in 2007 and best known as steward of the Linux kernel.
Linux kernel
The Linux kernel is the open-source, monolithic operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds, developed by thousands of contributors and running most smartphones, supercomputers, and cloud workloads.
Linux Mint
Linux Mint is a free, community-driven desktop Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu, started in 2006 by Clement Lefebvre, with Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions.
Linux namespaces
Linux namespaces are a Linux kernel feature that gives processes an isolated view of resources such as process IDs, mounts, and networks, forming the basis of containers.
Linux Professional Institute
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is a Canadian nonprofit founded in 1999 that provides vendor-neutral certifications for Linux and open source technologies, including the LPIC track, with over 350,000 certification holders in over 180 countries.
Linux Standard Base
The Linux Standard Base (LSB) is a Linux Foundation specification defining standard binary interfaces for Linux distributions, proposed in 1998, with its final release, LSB 5.0, issued in 2015.
Linwood Boomer
Linwood Boomer (born 1955, Vancouver) is a Canadian-American TV writer, producer, and former actor, known as Adam Kendall on Little House on the Prairie and as creator and Emmy-winning writer of Malcolm in the Middle and its 2026 revival.
Linxia Chengguanzhen
Linxia Chengguanzhen (临夏城关镇), also listed as Linxia Shi, is a town in Linxia, Gansu, China, population 202,402; the historic county-seat town of Daohe/Linxia County, absorbed into restored county-level Linxia City in 1983.
Linxia Huizu Zizhizhou
Linxia Huizu Zizhizhou, also known as Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, is an autonomous prefecture for the Hui people in Gansu Province, China, south of Lanzhou, established in 1956.
Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark
Linxia UNESCO Global Geopark, in Gansu Province, China, designated 2024: 212,000 ha of Danxia landforms on the Yellow River, a 24-pair pterosaur trackway, China's richest ancient mammal fossils, Bingling Cave Temple, and Hua'er folk music.
Linxing Tight Gas Field
The Linxing Tight Gas Field (临兴致密气) is an onshore tight gas field on the eastern edge of China's Ordos Basin, operated by CNOOC and producing since 2020.
Linyi
Linyi (临沂), also historically Langya and Yizhou, is Shandong's largest prefecture-level city by area and population, a 3,000-year-old city on the Yi River, a famous revolutionary base, and China's leading wholesale market and logistics hub.
Linyi power station
Linyi power station, also known as Huaneng Linyi Power Generation Co., Ltd., is a 1,260 MW coal-fired cogeneration plant in Linyi, Shandong, China, operated by Huaneng.
Linyi-Yizheng Pipeline
The Linyi-Yizheng Pipeline, called the Luning line (鲁宁线), is a 665 km crude oil pipeline in eastern China from Linyi, Shandong, to Yizheng, Jiangsu. Built in the 1970s, it ceased operation in December 2024.
Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae (sheetweb weavers, dwarf weavers, money spiders) is a family of tiny sheet-web-building spiders; with 641 genera and 4,981 species it is the second largest spider family, dominant in European field crops and dispersed by ballooning.
Linz
Linz, Austria (Linz an der Donau): capital of Upper Austria on the Danube, third-largest Austrian city (~215,000), first mentioned 799, steel city of voestalpine, home of Ars Electronica and UNESCO City of Media Arts.
Linzagolix
Linzagolix, marketed in Europe as Yselty, is an oral GnRH receptor antagonist, authorized in 2022 to treat uterine fibroids and endometriosis by lowering estrogen and progesterone.
Linzhao Cheng
Linzhao Cheng is a Chinese-American human stem cell biologist and genome-editing researcher, a tenured Johns Hopkins professor known for the first gene targeting in human iPS cells.
Linzi Drew
Linzi Drew (Lindsey Jayne Drew, born 1958, Bristol) is a former British glamour model, Penthouse UK editor, and actress, known for An American Werewolf in London (1981), Ken Russell films, her 1992 obscenity conviction, and novels Every Shade of Blue and Every Shade of Black; mother of actor Tyger Drew-Honey.
Lio (robot)
Lio is a mobile service robot with a multifunctional arm, made by F&P Robotics of Switzerland for personal care and assistance in healthcare and elderly care.
Lío Mehiel
Lío Mehiel is a Puerto Rican and Greek nonbinary actor, artist, and filmmaker who uses they/them pronouns; they won the 2023 Sundance Special Jury Award for Acting for Mutt, becoming the first trans actor to do so.
Lio Rush
Lio Rush (Lionel Gerard Green, born 1994), also known as LI Green and Lennon Duffy, American high-flying wrestler and musician; NXT Cruiserweight, MLW Middleweight, AAA Cruiserweight, Impact X Division, and ROH TV champion; current AEW wrestler.
Lio Tipton
Lio Tipton, born Analeigh Christian Tipton in 1988, is an American actor and former model, third place on America's Next Top Model cycle 11 (2008), known for Crazy, Stupid, Love., Warm Bodies, Two Night Stand, A Friend of the Family, and Love Hurts; nonbinary, uses they/them.
LIO-SAM
LIO-SAM (Lidar Inertial Odometry via Smoothing and Mapping) is an open-source lidar-inertial odometry framework that estimates a robot's trajectory and builds a 3D map in real time using a factor graph, published at IROS 2020.