Who Am I
My name is Ilyes Gouta and I'm a Senior Software Engineer. I'm originally from Sousse and work in Tunis. Both are main towns from Tunisia. Tunis/Sousse on Google Map
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 of 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 .DOT. gouta .AT. gmail .DOT. com
- IRC: breaker19