diff --git a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/eresources/_index.adoc b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/eresources/_index.adoc --- a/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/eresources/_index.adoc +++ b/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/eresources/_index.adoc @@ -54,13 +54,23 @@ Since FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, the user community itself also generally serves as a "technical support department" of sorts, with electronic mail, web forums, and USENET news being the most effective way of reaching that community. The most important points of contact with the FreeBSD user community are outlined below. +There is a possibly more up to date list on the https://wiki.freebsd.org/Community[FreeBSD Wiki]. Please send other resources not mentioned here to the {freebsd-doc} so that they may also be included. [[eresources-www]] == Websites * https://forums.FreeBSD.org/[The FreeBSD Forums] provide a web based discussion forum for FreeBSD questions and technical discussion. +* https://wiki.FreeBSD.org/[The FreeBSD Wiki] provides various bits of information that hadn't yet made it into Handbook. +* https://docs.FreeBSD.org/[The FreeBSD Documentation website] doesn't provide just the Handbook, there are other manuals and articles that are worth a read. +* https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/[The FreeBSD Journal] is a professionaly-edited, free, bi-monthly technical magazine released by https://freebsdfoundation.org[FreeBSD Foundation]. * The http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences[BSDConferences YouTube Channel] provides a collection of high quality videos from BSD conferences around the world. This is a great way to watch key developers give presentations about new work in FreeBSD. +* https://www.freebsd.org/status/[FreeBSD Quarterly Status Reports] are released every three months and track progress FreeBSD development. +* https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/[r/freebsd] is a FreeBSD-focused Reddit group. +* https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/freebsd[Super User] and https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/freebsd[Server Fault], the Stack Exchange services for system administrators. +* https://wiki.freebsd.org/Discord[FreeBSD Discord server], a communications and community-building service, where FreeBSD community members can socialise, obtain support or support others, learn, contribute, collaborate, and stay up to date with all things FreeBSD-related. +* https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels[IRC channels], a widely implemented, technically mature, open standard realtime text chat. +* https://bsd.network/[bsd.network Mastodon instance], a BSD-oriented social network. [[eresources-mail]] == Mailing Lists @@ -1081,11 +1091,6 @@ This mailing list can be used by developers to announce the creation and progress of FreeBSD related work. Messages will be moderated. It is suggested to send the message "To:" a more topical FreeBSD list and only "BCC:" this list. This way the WIP can also be discussed on the topical list, as no discussion is allowed on this list. -+ -Look inside the archives for examples of suitable messages. -+ -An editorial digest of the messages to this list might be posted to the FreeBSD website every few months as part of the Status Reports footnote:[https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/]. -Past reports are archived. link:{freebsd-wireless-url}[freebsd-wireless]:: _Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development_ @@ -1172,7 +1177,10 @@ * link:news:comp.windows.x[comp.windows.x] [[eresources-web]] -== Official Mirrors +== Website Mirrors + +Below is the list of official mirrors of the main FreeBSD website. +For the list of mirrors of FreeBSD releases, binaries, and other files shipped by the project, see link:./mirrors#mirrors-ftp[Mirrors]. <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>, <>.