Tom McLaughlin

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Who am I?

My name is Tom McLaughlin and I m a ports committer on the FreeBSD project. I currently reside in Needham, MA just outside of Boston. I work for a medical software company, Meditech Inc.,as a junior systems administrator. I've worked there since August of 2002 and have had my current position since July 2005.

On FreeBSD I currently maintain Mono through the BSD# Project which I started in August of 2004. I became a FreeBSD ports committer in September of 2005.

BSD#

BSD# is the project I started to maintain Novell's Mono on FreeBSD. It started late one evening when I felt it was time to learn a language more robust than Bourne script. C# sounded like a good choice considering the Mono port was limping along, still fairly new, and not very popular. Oh, wait... Maybe there were better choices. Well, if nothing else it has given me a lot to work on and learn. We still have our problems with Mono on FreeBSD and rely a lot on outside help. Due to various reasons I have less time available for Mono and BSD# so we're always looking for more help. Anyone interested in helping with Mono on FreeBSD can feel free to contact myself or email our mailing list found on the BSD# project page.

OpenKSH

OpenKSH is simply the name of the FreeBSD port I created for OpenBSD's pdksh. One afternoon while getting annoyed at the standard pdksh and realizing I didn't have the same problems on my OpenBSD machine I dragged the ksh directory from my OpenBSD box onto one of my FreeBSD boxes and compiled it. Today I don't even remeber what annoyance drove me to do this but I like having a shell that is still actively maintained.

This port does not currently reside in the FreeBSD ports tree. The OpenKSH port and distfile can be found below.

OpenKSH 4.2 port

OpenKSH 4.2 distfile

It's my first day...

I managed to break the ports tree INDEX on my first real FreeBSD ports commit.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-September/026071.html

I managed to accidently delete the wrong ports on my second commit.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2005-September/073849.html