Tomasz Luchowski

Postgraduate: M.Sc. with distinction, Software Engineering, earned from University of Oxford.
Undergraduate: B.Sc.(First Class Hons), Information Technology, earned from Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw, Poland.
Open Source: Contributing to the NetBSD Project (granted developer access in March 2001).
E-mail: tomasz@luchowski.com
Project: Actizoom

(Outdated, list no longer maintained) Publications:

pkgsrc: The NetBSD Packages Collection (in Polish) ( PPT ) (November 2004)
Slides from my presentation at meetBSD 2004, BSD conference held in Cracow, Poland.

Packaging systems in a UNIX environment (in Polish) ( PDF ) (May 2003)
I have given a speech entitled Packaging systems in a UNIX environment at BSDay 2003, a one-day conference dedicated to BSD systems held in Warsaw, Poland.

Packaging 3rd-party software for NetBSD (in Polish) (May 2001)
Published in Software 2.0 magazine. An article aimed at serving as a package's constructor's guide. Long and exhaustive, but the reader should be able to package programs which are not too troublesome and submit them into NetBSD Packages Collection almost immediately; when in doubt, the reader is educated enough to know where to ask for help effectively ;-) Unfortunately it is a bit outdated nowadays, as pkgsrc has changed significantly since (e.g. it does not cover buildlink).

What's new and interesting in NetBSD 1.5? (in Polish) (May 2001)
Published in Software 2.0 magazine. Discusses NetBSD 1.5 and focuses on it's new features and useful additions.

djbdns - fast and secure DNS server (in Polish) (May 2001)
Published in Software 2.0 magazine. It presents djbdns as an alternative to BIND; topics covered include tinydns, dnscache and axfrdns.

IPv6 support in BSD (in Polish) (May 2001)
Published in Software 2.0 magazine. This article is a pragmatic guide that discussess necessary steps to take to get IPv6 connectivity up and running.

NetBSD IPv6 Howto (in Polish) ( HTML ) (2000, periodically updated)
A short guide that presents an easy way to get connected to an IPv6 network, by using a gif tunnel.

Packages in *BSD (in Polish) (November 2000)
Published in Software 2.0 magazine. Explains how to download, install, and perform other operations on packaging systems in NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD. Also covers building packages from source and multiple methods of keeping ports/pkgsrc trees up to date.

PPP over TCP - short howto (in English) ( HTML ) (2001)
An example configuration to faciliate setting up your own PPP over TCP tunnel.

Home Internet Sollution (TPSA SDI) Howto (in English) ( HTML ) (2000, periodically updated)
A short explanation on how to get SDI (very common internet link in Poland) working quickly and easily.

NetBSD Polish fonts/keyboard mapping (in English) ( HTML ) (2001)
A howto that explains how to set up Polish fonts/keyboard mapping for use under XFree86, step by step.