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== Who Am I == | == Who Am I == | ||
My name is Ilyes Gouta and I'm a Senior Software Engineer. I'm originally from Sousse and work in Tunis. [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.266421,10.239258&spn=2.032805,5.625&t=h&z=8 | My name is Ilyes Gouta and I'm a Senior Software Engineer. I'm originally from Sousse and work in Tunis. [http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.266421,10.239258&spn=2.032805,5.625&t=h&z=8 Tunis/Sousse] | ||
== | == Fedora == | ||
I've been seriously using Fedora since the Fedora Core 5 days, however I've started experiencing with Linux since the RedHat 5 and Mandrake 7 days which came with the early KDE 1.1 desktop and Qt 1.44 libraries. I ran them on an IBM Aptiva with Pentium II 266 MHz and 48 Mb of RAM at that time. Throughout the time I had the opportunity to try out many distributions such as SuSE, Debian and more recently Ubuntu but for some reasons I kept going back to RedHat and then Fedora when it forked from the paid version. I like Fedora because it has been always a distribution that comes with bleeding-edge software and that has a very solid community supporting it. You get all the tools, software and kernel configured properly to start doing what you do. My main interest being software development and kernel hacking, I find that Fedora supported well my needs. | |||
== Development == | |||
I strongly participated in the development of a couple device drivers [http://sourceforge.net/projects/m560x-driver m560x-driver] for the ALi M5602 and M5603C based webcams. These are USB bridges to a variety of sensors and someone had to step up to get them working under Linux. I wrote also a V4L2 user-space companion program [http://sourceforge.net/projects/livecam livecam] that helped a lot debugging the driver. | |||
== Events == | |||
I attended a couple of Software Freedom Events performed here in Tunis. I found that my home town, Sousse, wasn't fairly represented so I decided to become a Fedora Ambassador. | |||
== Contacts == | == Contacts == | ||
* E-mail: ilyes.gouta -AT- gmail -DOT- com | |||
* IRC: breaker19 | |||
Revision as of 14:44, 13 November 2008
Who Am I
My name is Ilyes Gouta and I'm a Senior Software Engineer. I'm originally from Sousse and work in Tunis. Tunis/Sousse
Fedora
I've been seriously using Fedora since the Fedora Core 5 days, however I've started experiencing with Linux since the RedHat 5 and Mandrake 7 days which came with the early KDE 1.1 desktop and Qt 1.44 libraries. I ran them on an IBM Aptiva with Pentium II 266 MHz and 48 Mb of RAM at that time. Throughout the time I had the opportunity to try out many distributions such as SuSE, Debian and more recently Ubuntu but for some reasons I kept going back to RedHat and then Fedora when it forked from the paid version. I like Fedora because it has been always a distribution that comes with bleeding-edge software and that has a very solid community supporting it. You get all the tools, software and kernel configured properly to start doing what you do. My main interest being software development and kernel hacking, I find that Fedora supported well my needs.
Development
I strongly participated in the development of a couple device drivers m560x-driver for the ALi M5602 and M5603C based webcams. These are USB bridges to a variety of sensors and someone had to step up to get them working under Linux. I wrote also a V4L2 user-space companion program livecam that helped a lot debugging the driver.
Events
I attended a couple of Software Freedom Events performed here in Tunis. I found that my home town, Sousse, wasn't fairly represented so I decided to become a Fedora Ambassador.
Contacts
- E-mail: ilyes.gouta -AT- gmail -DOT- com
- IRC: breaker19