free5lot / free5lot

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Hi there!

I am a passionate Software Engineer who loves computers, GNU/Linux and Free Software.

Some of languages and technologies that I has been using: C, C++, C#, PHP, Python, JS/HTML/CSS, Bash/Shell, Java.

I use this account to publish my projects and provide limited support for them.

Some of my FLOSS projects:

1. Patch of hid-apple - a patch for Linux kernel that became quite popular, according to its likes. It allows to swap the Fn key and left Control key and a make some other keyboard tweaks on Macbook Pro and Apple keyboards in GNU/Linux.
   Some features of the patched version were sent upstream.

2. Camera_Net - a library/component for .NET that allows to use Camera easily (via DirectShow). It also became popular because of lack of proper and handy solutions to use camera in .NET in such a convenient way.
   You can read my CodeProject article about this library for more details.

3. CatalogFS - a FUSE-based filesystem for making and viewing indexes (snapshots) of backups and other data. It allows to index backups and save state of directories without consuming too much disk-space. I made it because existing indexing solutions were not good enough.
   Best used with CatalogFS_Lister script.

4. CatalogFS_Lister - a Python script to make CatalogFS indexes faster and with some additional features, like checksum calculations.
   Best used with CatalogFS but can be used alone with decent results. CatalogFS filesystem and CatalogFS_Lister script, started in 2020, became publicly available in Jule 2022 after reaching 3.0 version with major file-format change.

All these projects were made just because I needed them, but I love that sharing them allowed a lot of people to use them and provide feedback for my work. Also I'd like to thank all contributors who were quite helpful.