We recently interviewed Kanika Murarka on how she uses Fedora. This is part of a series on the Fedora Magazine. The series profiles Fedora users and how they use Fedora to get things done. Contact us on the feedback form to express your interest in becoming a interviewee.
Who is Kanika Murarka?
Kanika Murarka is an undergraduate computer science student and intern at Red Hat. She started using Linux in her sophomore year. In her junior year, she started contributing to open source projects. Murarka’s childhood heroes were Dr. Abdul Kalam and Jessica McKellar. Kanika has a special interest for graphics and animated movies. Inside Out and Monsters University top her list.
Fedora Community
Murarka first got involved with Fedora after meeting Sumantro Mukherjee. Sumantro, who was a Red Hat intern, told her about the pathway to to contribute to Fedora. She then started to contribute to Fedora Quality Assurance (QA). Kanika would like to see the participation of women in Fedora grow. She would like to help bring SIGs to universities that help women become contributors to Fedora. Kanika was impressed with how easy it was for “new contributor to get involved in the Fedora Project.” Murarka describes the Fedora community as “one of the most diverse community projects”.
Kanika contributes to Fedora QA and intends to contribute to the Design and Diversity teams as well. Her work in Fedora started with release validation for Fedora 24. Murarka’s motto is: “Getting packages release-ready and: Tried. Tested. Trusted!”
Murarka said that “knowledge of Linux, eagerness to learn and dedication” are what it takes to become involved in the Fedora Project. She recommends that a new contributor choose an area that motivates them to contribute too.
What hardware and software?
Murarka uses a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 with Fedora 24. The X220 is equipped with an Intel Core i7-2540M CPU. It is a great laptop for development. Kanika prefers using a mouse over the trackpad. She also uses
to do release validation testing on the next upcoming Fedora release.
Screenshot of Kanika’s Inkscape window
Akinsola
Cool! love how she wasted no time in contributing to the community, it was a dream come true when I joined fedora-qa a couple of weeks ago. Would love to African ladies doing so.
a2batic
Thanks Akinsola, Got a chance to give this interview at early stages of my contributions, I am a part of Fedora QA team. Also I am contributing to Fedora-hubs, Fedora-design and some of Fedora community activities
Akinsola
Cool! love how she wasted no time in contributing to the community, it was a dream come true when I joined fedora-qa a couple of weeks ago. Would love to see African ladies doing so.
antikythera
All the best with your studies Kanika and thanks for all your contributions to Fedora Project so far. I hope this article inspires more women to get involved as well
a2batic
Thanks antikythera, I hope the same. Looking forward to do more women oriented activities.
a2batic
Thanks bradley for the comment, yeah we love Fedora 🙂
bradley goodier
yeah support fedora all day long
a2batic
Thanks bradley for the comment, yeah we love Fedora ?
rodorapido
quite short Story
what does Kanika do in her leisure time? What are here Hobbies? Does she like coffee? Or tea?
a2batic
Hi rodorapido, I am a lazy person, so don’t have specific hobbies. But, I like roller skating and sometimes go out to skate around. Also, I prefer tea over coffee. My favourite is masala tea 🙂
rodorapido
Hi Kanika, thanks for your reply! If there is any chance for you to visit Germany I should be grateful to invite you to a big cup of Masala tea. For the time being: enjoy Fedora and keep rolling 😉
Greez, rodo.
Alvarok
How do you manage the issues in SandyBridge Graphics?
Because I have the exact same chip, and a desktop with a Radeon R9 290X, and the Radeon is an order of magnitude better in Gnome 3 than SandyBridge!
Even in Firefox, you need to edit the about:config render options to get rid of a XRender issue with vertical lines (IvyBridge too).
Munis Isazade
amazing , I am very happy to show people use Fedora.
sujan
i have also just started using open source and i started through fedaora….i have intrest in ethical hacking..is fedora best for ethical hacking???if then any one plyz provide me some tools…i have just started my univerit level and i am very new for it