The World of Geert Uytterhoeven

Personalia

	First name:	Geert
	Middle name:	N/A
	Last name:	Uytterhoeven
	Born:	Yes, in 1971

Welcome to my new homepage! After having had an `old' (you know, HTML 1.0) webpage for more than 5 years, it was time to revamp it using some features of the newer standards. I hope you will enjoy it!

Geert, 24/10/1999

How to contact me?

Read the interview at NewsForge.

Daytime Activities

I'm self-employed, providing (Embedded) Linux (Kernel) Development, Consultancy, and Coaching Services through my company, Glider bv.

Nighttime Activities

Software Hacking

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists, I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

The magic word here is Linux, the choice of a GNU generation!

• My Linux pages
• Linux/m68k, porting Linux to the m68k processor family
• Linux/PPC, porting Linux to the PowerPC processor family.
• Linux-fbdev, the Linux frame buffer device abstraction
• XFree86-fbdev, an X server for the Linux frame buffer device abstraction
• Linux Expo '99
• Linux.be, a non-profit organization promoting Linux in Belgium
• IGUANA, Independent Group of Unix-Alikes and Networking Activists

On November 16, 1999, I gave a presentation (in Dutch) about `Open Source Software (OSS) Development'.

Before I started working on Linux, I was active in the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga scenes.

Hardware Hacking

Hitachi HD44780 LCD (available soon)

Collecting Computer Systems

I like to collect old computer systems that still work. This is very simple since computers become obsolete as soon as people have bought them, so people want to get rid of them and upgrade to a newer system :-)

Downloading

Proceed immediately to my download area.

Related Links

If you like to hack, you know these links for sure:

• Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters.
• The New Hacker's Dictionary
• Enjoy the true powers of Open Source(R) software!

Former Daytime Activities

From 1999 until 2013, I was employed as a software architect at Sony Techsoft Centre Europe (formerly NSCE, formerly SDCE, formerly SUPC-E, ...) in Zaventem, Belgium.

From 1994 until 1999, I worked on my Ph.D., `Wavelets: Software and Applications'.

My old homepage at K.U.Leuven (as long as it still exists) WAILI, Wavelets with Integer Lifting is a software library for performing integer wavelet transforms, mainly targeted at image processing. It is freely available under the GNU General Public License Wavelet Based Interactive Video Communication and Image Database Consulting The Wavelet Digest The NALAG and Scientific Computing research groups Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics division Department of Computer Science K.U.Leuven

Miscellaneous

Penguins Without Linux

Compaq sells Penguins without Linux

The Dell and Microsoft-case

Can you buy a PC from Dell without a version of Microsoft Windows preinstalled?
Do you get any discount?
Available in Dutch and English.