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Contact

Name: Dominic Duval

Position: Instructor / Consultant

Company Email: dduval@redhat.com

Personal Email: dd@dd.qc.ca

Cell Phone: 514-581-7975 (Montreal)

Teaching

I work as an instructor for Red Hat's GLS (Global Learning Services) department, where I mainly teach and help maintain our software development courses:

• RHD143 Red Hat Linux Programming Essentials
• RHD221 Red Hat Linux Device Drivers
• RHD236 Red Hat Linux Kernel Internals
• RHD256 Red Hat Linux Application Development and Porting

Consulting

A few documents I wrote in order to explain some kernel topics as part of my work with Red Hat's Global Professional Services consulting department:

• Overview of the vm.min_free_kbytes value.

Kernel Development

Here are a few code examples I developed to illustrate some kernel concepts:

• Demo of a program that uses Netlink to get routing table events: examples/nl_routing/


• Kernel module and user space app that implement Netlink communications : examples/nl_send_recv/

Misc

French Canadian (Quebec) Keyboard issue:

Fedora{2,3,4} & RHEL4 all contain a limitation in the Keyboard Indicator that makes the application crash if we configure both US and French Canadian keyboards. To fix this problem, execute the following commands and restart your graphical Desktop:

su [Enter you root password]
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
wget http://people.redhat.com/dduval/keyboard/ca_enhanced

Talks & Conferences

Here are a few talks and conference I was invited to:

• Expo TI Performance, Montreal, Québec, October 26 2005. Slides are available in PDF format.
• TI Contact 2005, Quebec City, Québec, May 6 2005.
• Colloque UQAM: Cultures libres, innovation en réseau, Montreal, Quebec, September 18 2007. Slides of my talk (Fedora: de produit a projet) are available in PDF format (in French only).
• Conférence FACIL: Le Projet Fedora, Montreal, Quebec, October 18 2007. A presentation I gave about Fedora (OpenOffice format, in French only).
• Linux Symposium 2009, Montreal, July 2009. From Fast to Predictably Fast(Presentation), From Fast to Predictably Fast (Paper).
• Canadian University Software Engineering Conference 2010, Montreal, January 2010. Linux Kernel Hacking 101 (Presentation).