User:Levex

Levente Kurusa
Levente Kurusa Levente Kurusa
Personal Information
Born:	1996 in
Home:	Szeged, Hungary
Fedora-specific Information
FAS-Name:	Levex
Fedora-Mail:	Levex@fedoraproject.org
Miscellaneous Information
Private Mail:	levex@linux.com
IRC:	Levex on Libera.Chat, in:
	#fedora #fedora-hu #fedora-kernel #fedora-devel
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My name is Levente Kurusa, 17 years old and I am from Hungary. I have been a Linux user for 5 years now, and this is what I prefer over anything else. Linux gives me the freedom to make the most powerful applications with the most powerful tools ever created. My software engineering career began with a very unfortunate event, I broke my leg. After having played with all my toys and getting bored, I sat down to my father's notebook. It had Windows 98 (pfft) on it and no games, so I began creating a text adventure one. I searched and read some books and then I finished it. The source code was unfortunately lost. Ever since I am obsessed with computer programming. Lately, I have began to develop the Linux kernel itself and this is where I have found my true self. It is amazing. I love it.

I also teach programming to my fellow classmates, and I love holding talks about Linux. :-)

Activities within Fedora

• Soon-to-be Fedora kernel engineer. :-)
• Finding bugs is my hobby, so let's do this as well.
• L10n translator, hungarian team

Activities outside Fedora

Kernel Engineer

History

I am a kernel engineer for two years now. First I began with the development of my own UNIX-like kernel, LevOS. I have ported a C library from Red Hat to it, so it is pretty powerful. Unfortunately, my ext2 driver is very bad so it would need a full rewrite to be able to write files which is a step for the GCC port. After realising that such a project really has no benefit to the community I began the development of the Linux Kernel. This goes pretty fine. I am posting patches, reviewing patches and helping with the maintenance of various parts of the kernel.

Current projects

• I plan to be able to longterm maintain the 3.13 kernel once it finishes with the stable-cycle.
• device_generic_release() function to save kernel size.
• a complete rewrite of the ata_piix driver for the ICH* SATA controllers.
• add put_device() calls after a failed device_register() as per GregKH's comments.
• provide better timing code for Marvell's SATA controllers.
• Spot the bug with why NCQ doesn't work on Marvell's chips.

KDE developer

Mostly posting patches to kdev-python, kdevelop and marble.

Achievements

• Got invited to intern at Google.
  • Unable to attend until not enrolled in a university. :-(
• Completed my first internship at a local company.
  • Created an Android app which used the SOAP API to control the software.
• Ported newlib (Red Hat's embedded C library) to my hobby UNIX-like kernel.

Events so far

• FSF Free Software Conference in Szeged - November 29th 2013, Agóra Szeged - as a speaker: Linux Kernel - Introduction
  • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9vQ4VWOKls
  • English translation: https://speakerdeck.com/levex/linux-kernel-introduction-en
• DevConf 2014 in Brno, CZ - February 7-9th - as a speaker: Introduction to Linux Kernel Development
  • Video (looks like they messed up a bit): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6wjfOgE6Rs
  • Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/levex/introduction-to-linux-kernel-development
• Fedora 20 Release Party in Budapest, HU - February 22th 2014, Balabit HQ - as an attendee

Future events

• Linuxwochen 2014 Vienna in Vienna, AT - May 8th-10th 2014 - as a speaker (hopefully): TBA
• LinuxCon Europe 2014 in Düsseldorf, GR - October 13th - 15th, 2014 - as a speaker (hopefully): TBA
• Flock 2014 in Brno, CZ - August 6th-9th - as a speaker (hopefully): A comparison of the Fedora kernel to other popular distributions
• FSF Free Software Conference in Budapest, HU - TBA - as a speaker (hopefully): TBA
• FSF Free Software Conference in Szeged - TBA - as a speaker (hopefully): TBA