English
I have been a Linux user since 1999, starting with RedHat (was it Valhalla or Engima? I'm not sure), before experimenting with Mandrake and SuSE, and then going back to RedHat 9 for some time and also spending several years with Gentoo Linux. My first encounter with Fedora was working at a well-known hosting company who happened to have Fedora Core as their only Linux flavor. To be honest I continued using Gentoo on my workstation: I was obsessed with over clocking my computer and trying to squeeze all the performance I could get from my computer at the hardware level and at the software level.
In recent years I haven't had the time to maintain and keep compiling everything from source, plus my current job required me to migrate and package some web applications from Solaris to Terra Linux which is a custom flavor of Linux also based on RPMs and from one version of Terra Linux to the next one, and now most recently to CentOS using RPMs, which was my first encounter with spec files and the process of building RPMs.
Right now I feel that I have the time and the knowledge to collaborate with this great community; Unlike my other strengths in I know my building and packaging skills are not at the same level, I know the basics about spec files, pre and post install scripts and love it so far. I am more than willing to learn more, for I am fast and strong learner. I also have system administration skills that involve migrating web applications, identifying and troubleshooting bugs, automating tasks and managing systems, plus I have been using Fedora for the last 3 years on my work station.
I consider myself to be detail-orientated perfectionist, sometimes obsessed with solving problems, don't be surprised if you see me closing a ticket at 3:30am, I am not afraid of asking for help.
As a former NSLU2 Linux enthusiast I am used to working with low resource systems (32MB of ram and 133MHz) as well as optimizing the OS and applications for this purpose.
Despite having a sysadmin profile, I am also a people person: I speak English even though I am originally from Venezuela. I moved to Miami back in 2002, so my native language is Spanish, and I also understand and speak some Portuguese and Dutch.
Activities within Fedora
- I am new to the #fedora channel where I try to help people to troubleshoot and fix their problems with their Fedora installation
Get in touch
- Name: Oliver Rivas
- NickName orvtech
- Website: http://orvtech.com
- e-Mail: orvtech@orvtech.com
- Location: Miami, FL - United States of America
- Twitter account: http://twitter.com/m1n1m3
- IRC: #unplug in irc.unplug.org.ve, #fedora and #fedora-latam in irc.freenode.net
Español
Contacta me
Nombre: Oliver Rivas
Nick: orvtech
Blog: http://orvtech.com
e-Mail: orvtech@orvtech.com
Ubicación: Miami, FL - Estados Unidos de America
Vía Twitter: http://twitter.com/m1n1m3
Vía IRC: irc.unplug.org.ve En #unplug