Contact Information
Email: zulcss@gmail.com
IRC: zul on irc.freenode.net
Launchpad: http://www.launchpad.net/people/zulcss
About Me
I am a 30 year old, open source software ethuniasist. I have been using Linux in one form or another (Slackware, RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Ubuntu) since Linux 2.0 came out and I have to say that Ubuntu is the best one by far. During the day I work as a Systems Engineer at Dinmar Consulting, and at night I relax by working on Ubuntu. I currently live in Ottawa, Ontario with my lovely wife and guniea pig which still does not have a name yet (the guinea pig, not the wife).
Interests
My interests include the following (in no particular order):
- Linux kernel.
- Bug hunting/resolving.
- Embedded Systems (handhelds)
- Spending time with my wife
Ubuntu and Me
I been using since Hoary was released. I was using Gentoo at the time and was looking for a change. I was tired of recompiling ebuilds and waiting ebuilds to finish and started looking around. I still used Gentoo on my server, so I decided to try Ubuntu and was impressed.
Soon after I started submitting patches for Ubuntu's kernel to Fabbione and have been doing so ever since. Here is a short list of things I have contributed to Ubuntu:
- Kernel Team
- Submitted Kernel patches for improvements in hoary, breezy and dapper.
- Kernel Bug triaging.
- Submitted patches for external drivers in breezy and dapper.
- Hanging out on #ubuntu-kernel offering support.
- Bug Squad
- Bug hunting
- Fixing and uploading to universe
- Bug triaging
- Main/grub
- I do some bug triaging for grub. I have a couple of patches that I would
- like to include in dapper+1. Including LVM support, animated gfx-boot out of the box and a cleaner stage2 boot.
- Also I fiddle around with grub2 which I get the chance to.
- Of course kernel team related activities.
- I do some bug triaging for grub. I have a couple of patches that I would
- Laptop Team
- Testing dapper on Canonical sponsored laptop Dell Latitude X1.
- MOTU
- I am a member of the MOTU team and if I remember one of the first ones
- to join the team (although I could be wrong)
- I am a member of the MOTU team and if I remember one of the first ones
- Advocacy/Support
I advocate using Ubuntu whenever I can.
Other Open Source Work
I have contributed to other projects as well besides Ubuntu:
- Gentoo
Gentoo developer. (zul@gentoo.org)
- I mainted the net-irc ebuilds for Gentoo.
- I also maintained both apache1 and apache2 for Gentoo (including the related
- apache modules found in gentoo's ebuild tree).
- I was a member of the SPARC porting team, tested ebuilds for the SPARC
- proccessor.
- Open Xchange
- I contributed several patches to Open Xchange for various improvements to their
- web based interface that was accepted. I did this on behalf of a client that I was working for at the time.
- I contributed several patches to Open Xchange for various improvements to their
- Corel Linux/Xandros
- I was also one of the first beta testers when Xandros first came out.
Looking Forward
I would like to join the core developer team since I believe I believe that I can contribute alot more than what I am doing now with my experience and knowledge. I will continue to do my best and work with both the community and the core developers. Also I have a couple of ideas for an Embedded version of Ubuntu, I think that would rock (Imagine UbuntuCE ;).