| Levente Kurusa | |
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| 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
Future events
- DevConf 2014 in Brno, CZ - February 7-9th - as a speaker: Introduction to Linux Kernel Development
- Fedora 20 Release Party in Budapest, HU - February 22th 2014, Balabit HQ - as an attendee