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Levente Kurusa
Levente Kurusa
Levente Kurusa
Levente Kurusa
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Born: 1996 in
Home: Szeged, Hungary
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FAS-Name: Levex
Fedora-Mail: Levex@fedoraproject.org
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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

  • Print a QR code on kernel Oops.
  • 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

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): How is the Fedora kernel different?
  • Akademy 2014 in Brno, CZ - September 6th-12th - as a speaker (hopefully): Attracting young people to KDE and open source
  • FSF Free Software Conference in Budapest, HU - TBA - as a speaker (hopefully): TBA
  • FSF Free Software Conference in Szeged, HU - TBA - as a speaker (hopefully): TBA
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