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Experience the possibilities with FreeBSD

FreeBSD can handle nearly any task you would expect of a UNIX workstation, as well as many you might not expect:

FreeBSD is a true open system with full source code.

There is no doubt that so-called open systems are the requirement for today's computing applications. But no commercial vendor-supplied solution is more open than one which includes full source code to the entire operating system, including the kernel and all of the system daemons, programs, and utilities. You can modify any part of FreeBSD to suit your personal, organizational, or corporate needs.

With its generous licensing policy, you can use FreeBSD as the basis for any number of free or commercial applications.

FreeBSD runs thousands of applications.

Because FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD, an industry-standard version of UNIX, it is easy to compile and run programs. FreeBSD also includes an extensive packages collection and ports collection that bring precompiled and easy-to-build software right to your desktop or enterprise server. There is also a growing number of commercial applications written for FreeBSD.

Here are some examples of the environments in which FreeBSD is used:

Internet services. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other services. Ready-to-run software like the Apache web server or the Wu-ftpd FTP server make it easy to set up a business or community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable networking, your users will enjoy high speed, reliable services.

X Window workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal to an advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (XFree86) comes with the system. Xi Graphics offers accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such as Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif and OpenGL libraries.

Networking. From packet filtering to routing to name service, FreeBSD can turn any PC into a Internet firewall, email host, print server, PC/NFS server, and more.

Software development. A suite of development tools comes with FreeBSD, including the GNU C/C++ compiler and debugger and the Perl scripting language. Java and Tcl/Tk development are also possible. Popular editors like Xemacs and more esoteric programming languages like Icon work just fine, too. And FreeBSD's shared libraries have always been easy to make and use.

Net surfing. A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet surfboard, and the BSD version of Netscape Navigator with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web, publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive email with a FreeBSD system on your desktop.

Education and research. FreeBSD makes an excellent research platform because it includes complete source code. Students and researchers of operating systems or other computer science fields can benefit greatly from such an open and well-documented system.

And much more. Accounting, action games, MIS databases, scientific visualization, video conferencing, Internet relay chat (IRC), home automation, multiuser dungeons, bulletin board systems, image scanning, and more are all real uses for FreeBSD today. If you have an innovative application for FreeBSD, let us know so we can add it to our gallery.

FreeBSD is an operating system that will grow with your needs.

Though FreeBSD is free software, it is also user supported software. Any questions you have can be posted to hundreds of FreeBSD developers and users simply by e-mailing the freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mailing list.

FreeBSD also has a worldwide group of programmers and writers who fix bugs, add new features and document the system. Support for new devices or special features is an almost constant development process, and the team keeps a special eye out for problems which affect system stability. FreeBSD users are quite proud of not only how fast but how reliable their systems are.

What experts have to say . . .

``FreeBSD handles [our] heavy load quite well and it is nothing short of amazing. Salutations to the FreeBSD team.''

---Mark Hittinger, administrator of WinNet Communications, Inc.

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General Information

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Overview

In light of our recent (and still ongoing) security concerns, it has become rather obvious that nothing less than a rigorous and comprehensive security review of the FreeBSD source tree will enable us to really have much confidence in the security of our operating system, an OS that many have come increasingly to rely upon and must be made more than reasonably secure if they are to continue to be able to do so.

The sheer amount of legacy code & code from outside sources in FreeBSD also makes it especially easy for security holes to go unnoticed until it's rather too late, and no truly large-scale attempt has been made up to this point to really go through the codebase with a specific focus on security issues, that being a rather big project and most FreeBSD developers being more than busy enough elsewhere. This situation must now change, however, if we are to remain the kind of operating system that people can continue to rely upon as the Internet continues to grow and (I suspect) become an ever-more hostile environment for improperly protected systems. Proper security is something of a cooperative arrangement between the local administrator and the OS vendor, and this "OS vendor" needs to do its part.

The core team's first step in becoming more serious about security was to bring the project's security officer, Guido van Rooij, into the team so that one of the "voices at the table" would have security as his primary mandate and representation in all the important security mailing lists external to the FreeBSD Project. He will also keep the rest of us in core much more aware of security concerns as they arise, hopefully not to be taken quite so by surprise as we have a few times in the past.

Our second step will be this audit, an attempt to methodically go through every line of source in FreeBSD looking for obvious buffer overflows (sprintf()/strcpy() vs snprintf()/strncpy() and so on), less obvious security holes, instances of insufficiently defensive coding, amusing comment strings to forward to freebsd-chat, whatever we run across.

Using the modules database as an outline, we will split the source tree into more manageable pieces, keeping a sign-up sheet in a prominent place so that people can see which modules are covered and which are not. A carefully selected team of individuals is now also being formed, that team being composed of "auditors" and "reviewers" (most members of the team being both). An auditor has principle responsibility, which may be shared with another auditor, for actually going through the code and looking for security holes and/or bugs. Once a reasonable pile of diffs have been accumulated, assuming that any problems were found, they are send to one or more reviewers who are responsible for giving the changes another once-over and, if the auditor does not have commit privileges, to actually commit the changes when & if they're deemed acceptable.

Requirements:

In order to be an auditor, you should either have commit privileges on freefall.FreeBSD.org or an arrangement with another auditor/reviewer who does. You should also be running or have immediate access to FreeBSD-current sources since all of our changes will be made relative to that branch and then brought back (as necessary) into the 2.1 and 2.2 branches.

What to look for and what the general rules to follow are is sufficiently complex that I have turned it into a FreeBSD Security Guide. Please read this now if you haven't already. Other excellent documents are the Secure Programming Checklist and the Unix Security Checklist, both available from AUSCERT.

Sign-Up sheet:

Here is the sign-up sheet as it sits so far. This is *very* skeletal at this stage, given that we've just now started, and as people indicate which module(s) they're willing to either audit or review, we'll fill it in. If this tabular format also becomes unwieldy as it fills up, we can change it or put it on a web page or something. :) I've left some sample entries open just as place-holders, and they in no way imply that someone has to be willing to pick up pieces that large.

Anything in the modules database represents a potential auditing target - from ones as small as "cat" to ones as large as "lib", the most important being that people bite off pieces no larger than they think they can chew. If you take 15 things onto your plate and deal with only 5, you're not doing anyone any favors since the other auditors will be assuming that the other 10 items are handled!

To sign up for something, please send mail to jmb@FreeBSD.org.

Module	Auditor(s)	Reviewer(s)	Status
bin	ac ee* gvr* jh ka mu vk	imp* jmb* md* gvr*	Open
contrib	cg	gvr*	Open
eBones	mrvm*	gvr*	Open
games	ab ee* xaa	gvr*	Open
init	gl	gvr*	Open
lib	ak bjn pst*	dg* imp* jkh* gvr*	Open
libc	ee* mu	gvr*	Open
libexec	crh ee* imp* mr witr	gvr*	Open
lkm	dob*	gvr*	Open
sbin	ee* imp* or* tao	jmb* md* gvr*	Open
secure	dc mrvm*	gvr*	Open
telnetd	ac dn	imp* gvr*	Open
usr.bin	bob ee* jha jm ky* rb rd rjk vk	md* gvr*	Open
usr.sbin	ee* ejc gl imp* jm marc rd	md* gvr*	Open

Auditor/Reviewer keys

This is the list of people who have volunteered to participate as auditors or reviewers in this process. They may also be reached collectively by sending mail to the auditors@FreeBSD.org alias at times when it is appropriate to send mail to all auditors. If you wish to reach just the auditors & reviewers for a specific category, say usr.sbin for example, then you would send mail to audit-usr.sbin@FreeBSD.org.

Key	Auditor/Reviewer Name and Email address
ab	Aaron Bornstein aaronb@j51.com
ac	Adrian Chadd adrian@psinet.net.au
ak	Adam Kubicki apk@itl.waw.pl
am	Albert Mietus gam@gamp.hacom.nl
avk	Alexander V. Kalganov top@sonic.cris.net
bb	Bob Bishop rb@gid.co.uk
bjn	Brent J. Nordquist nordquist@platinum.com
bob	Bob Willcox bob@luke.pmr.com
btm	Brian T. Michely brianm@cmhcsys.com
cg	Coranth Gryphon gryphon@healer.com
cl	Chris Lambertus cmlambertus@ucdavis.edu
crh	Charles Henrich henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
dc	Dan Cross tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu
dg*	David Greenman davidg@FreeBSD.org
din	Dinesh Nair dinesh@alphaque.com
dn	David Nugent davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au
dob*	David E. O'Brien obrien@NUXI.com
dz	Danny J. Zerkel dzerkel@phofarm.com
ee*	Eivind Eklund eivind@FreeBSD.org
eh	Elijah Hempstone avatar@gandalf.bss.sol.net
ehu	Ernest Hua hua@chromatic.com
ejc	Eric J. Chet ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com
gl	Giles Lean giles@nemeton.com.au
gvr*	Guido van Rooij guido@FreeBSD.org
gw	Graham Wheeler gram@oms.co.za
imp*	Warner Losh imp@FreeBSD.org
jb	Jim Bresler jfb11@inlink.com
jh	Jake Hamby jehamby@lightside.com
jha	John H. Aughey jha@cs.purdue.edu
jk	Jerry Kendall Jerry@kcis.com
jkh*	Jordan K. Hubbard jkh@FreeBSD.org
jm	Josef Moellers mollers.pad@sni.de
jmb*	Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@FreeBSD.org
joe*	Joe Greco jgreco@solaria.sol.net
ka	Kalganov Alexander top@bird.cris.net
ki	Kenneth Ingham ingham@i-pi.com
ky*	Kazutaka YOKOTA yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
marc	Marc Slemko marcs@znep.com
md*	Matt Dillon dillon@best.net
mr	Mike Romaniw msr@cuc.com
mrvm*	Mark Murray mark@grondar.za
mu	Mudge mudge@l0pht.com
or*	Ollivier Robert roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
pb	Peter Blake ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk
peter*	Peter Wemm peter@FreeBSD.org
phk*	Poul-Henning Kamp phk@FreeBSD.org
pst*	Paul Traina pst@FreeBSD.org
rb	Reinier Bezuidenhout rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
rd	Rajiv Dighe rajivd@sprynet.com
rel	Roger Espel Llima espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr
rjk	Richard J Kuhns rjk@grauel.com
rm	Robin Melville robmel@nadt.org.uk
rs	Robert Sexton robert@kudra.com
sc	Sergei Chechetkin csl@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua
tao	Brian Tao taob@risc.org
tdr	Thomas David Rivers ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
vk	Vadim Kolontsov vadim@tversu.ac.ru
witr	Robert Withrow witr@rwwa.com
xaa	Mark Huizer xaa@stack.nl

* = Has CVS commit privileges.

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Availability of FreeBSD

FreeBSD is free and is available for downloading over the Internet or on CDROM for a small fee.

Hardware requirements.

FreeBSD runs on a variety of PC and Alpha hardware. Please review the supported configurations section of the FreeBSD Handbook for more information.

Where to get it.

FreeBSD can be downloaded over the Internet for free, using a variety of different protocols (FTP, CVS, AFS, and more). If bandwidth is expensive for you then it can also be purchased on CDROM from a variety of vendors.

For more information on obtaining FreeBSD, please see the Handbook Chapter on obtaining FreeBSD.

For more information on installing FreeBSD, please see the Handbook Chapter on installing FreeBSD.

About the FreeBSD Project.

FreeBSD is developed and supported by a worldwide team of programmers. Jordan Hubbard, one of the project's founders, has written a brief history of the FreeBSD project. Information about who's responsible for what is also available. If you are curious, take a look at some pictures of the team members. A more complete listing of contributors is available in the Contributors section of the FreeBSD Handbook. FreeBSD is an open project, and welcomes the help of individuals who have time and or skills to offer.

This "about" section was created by Sean Kelly.

Inside your PC is a daemon waiting to be unleashed. Free it with FreeBSD.

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FreeBSD offers many advanced features.

No matter what the application, you want your system's resources performing at their full potential. FreeBSD's advanced features enable you to do just that.

A complete operating system based on 4.4BSD.

FreeBSD's distinguished roots derive from the latest BSD software releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of California, Berkeley. The book The Design and Implementation of 4.4BSD Operating System, written by the 4.4BSD system architects, thus describes much of FreeBSD's core functionality in detail.

Drawing on the skills and experience of a diverse and world-wide group of volunteer developers, the FreeBSD Project has worked to extend the feature set of the 4.4BSD operating system in many ways, striving constantly to make each new release of the OS more stable, faster and containing new functionality driven by user requests.

FreeBSD provides higher performance, greater compatibility with other operating systems and less system administration.

FreeBSD's developers attacked some of the more difficult problems in operating systems design to give you these advanced features:

A merged virtual memory and filesystem buffer cache continuously tunes the amount of memory used for programs and the disk cache. As a result, programs receive both excellent memory management and high performance disk access, and the system administrator is freed from the task of tuning cache sizes.

Compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems to run on FreeBSD, including programs for Linux, SCO UNIX, NetBSD, and BSD/OS.

Kernel Queues allow programs to respond more efficiently to a variety of asynchronous events including file and socket IO, improving application and system performance.

Accept Filters allow connection-intensive applications, such as web servers, to cleanly push part of their functionality into the operating system kernel, improving performance.

Soft Updates allows improved file system performance without sacrificing safety and reliability. It analyzes meta-data filesystem operations to avoid having to perform all of those operations synchronously. Instead, it maintains internal state about pending meta-data operations and uses this information to cache meta-data, rewrite meta-data operations to combine subsequent operations on the same files, and reorder meta-data operations so that they may be processed more efficiently.

Support for IPsec and IPv6 allows improved security in networks, and support for the next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6.

Work in-progress includes support for fine-grained SMP locking in kernel, allowing higher performance on multi-processor machines, support for Scheduler Activations, allowing parallelism in threaded programs, file system snapshots, fsck-free booting, network optimizations such as zero-copy sockets and event-driven socket IO, ACPI support, and advanced security features such as Mandatory Access Control.

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FreeBSD was designed for the Internet

FreeBSD includes what many consider the reference implementation for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP protocol stack, thereby making it ideal for network applications and the Internet.

FreeBSD supports standard TCP/IP protocols.

Like most UNIX systems, the FreeBSD operating system enables you to

Share filesystems with NFS

Distribute network information with NIS

Support remote logins

Do remote SNMP configuration and management

Serve files with FTP

Resolve Internet hostnames with DNS/BIND

Route packets between multiple interfaces, including PPP and SLIP lines

Use IP Multicast services (the MBONE)

FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or Usenet news relay with included software. Using the included SAMBA software you can even share filesystems or printers with your Win95 and NT machines and, with the supplied PCNFS authentication daemon, you can support machines running PC/NFS. FreeBSD also supports Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an optional commercial package), making it a true "Intranet" networking solution.

FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the RFC-1323 high performance extension and RFC-1644 extension for transactions, plus SLIP and dial-on-demand PPP. It is an operating system suitable for a home-based net surfer as well as a corporate systems administrator.

FreeBSD's networking is stable and fast.

If you need an Internet server platform that is reliable and offers the best performance under heavy load, then consider FreeBSD. Here are just a few of the companies that make use of FreeBSD every day:

Walnut Creek CDROM ran one of the most popular FTP servers on the Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, exclusively on FreeBSD for many years. It was a single FreeBSD machine supporting 6000 connections, and capable of transferring more than 30 terabytes (as of June, 1999; yes that is terabytes!) worth of files every month to more than 10 million people.

Yahoo Inc. runs the ultimate index of the Internet, serving scads of daily net surfers with information about the World Wide Web. Yahoo, as well the companies that advertise on Yahoo, rely on FreeBSD to run reliable and responsive web servers.

If that is not enough, visit our Gallery of satisfied FreeBSD users.

FreeBSD makes an ideal platform for these and other Internet services:

Company-wide or world-wide WWW service

Proxy WWW service

Anonymous FTP service

Enterprise file and print services

The FreeBSD ports collection contains ready-to-run software that makes it easy to set up your own Internet server.

High performance and security.

The FreeBSD developers are as concerned about security as they are about performance. FreeBSD includes kernel support for IP firewalling, as well other services, such as IP proxy gateways. If you put your corporate servers on the Internet, any 386 PC (or better) running FreeBSD can act as a network firewall to protect them from outside attack.

Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption and secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to export restrictions).

Furthermore, the FreeBSD team is proactive in detecting and disseminating security information and bug reports with a security officer and ties to the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).

What experts have to say . . .

``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable TCP/IP stack in existence ...''

---Michael O'Brien, SunExpert August 1996 volume 7 number 8.

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Questions about FreeBSD...

Questions regarding FreeBSD should be addressed to the FreeBSD Questions mailing list, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG.

Mailing lists are the primary support channel for FreeBSD users, with numerous mailing lists covering different topic areas. Several non-English mailing lists are also available.

Questions about the contents of this WWW server...

Questions or suggestions about our documentation (Handbook, FAQ, Tutorials) should be addressed to the FreeBSD Documentation Project mailing list, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG.

Snail mail, phone and fax

For CDROM orders: The FreeBSD Mall

For commercial support: The FreeBSD Mall

Who Is Responsible for What

Public Relations & Corporate Liaison, Security Officer, Postmaster, Webmaster etc.

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Mailing lists
Newsgroups
IRC
WEB Resources
GNATS Problem Report Database
CVS Repository
User Groups
FreeBSD Development Projects
FreeBSD Security Guide
Commercial Consulting Services
General Unix Information
The X Window System
Hardware
Related Operating System Projects

Mailing lists

Mailing lists are the primary support channel for FreeBSD users, with numerous mailing lists covering different topic areas. When in doubt about what list to post a question to, post to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG. You can browse or search the mailing list archives at www.FreeBSD.org.

The FreeBSD Conspectus is a summary of some of the mailing lists produced each week, giving you an at-a-glance overview of recent discussions and decisions.

Several non-English mailing lists are also available:

Traditional Chinese -- WWW, Big5 encoding.
Simplified Chinese -- majordomo@cn.FreeBSD.org, GB2312 encoding.
Czech -- majordomo@FreeBSD.cz
German -- majordomo@de.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
French -- listserver@FreeBSD-fr.org or WWW.
Hungarian -- majordomo@hu.FreeBSD.org
Indonesian -- id-freebsd-subscribe@egroups.com
Italian -- minimalist@gufi.org or WWW.
Japanese -- majordomo@jp.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
Korean -- majordomo@kr.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
Netherlands -- majordomo@nl.FreeBSD.org.
Polish -- majordomo@pap.waw.pl
Portuguese -- listproc@br.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
Slovakian -- majordomo@sk.FreeBSD.org
Spanish -- majordomo@es.FreeBSD.org

If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, let us know about them.

Newsgroups

There are a few FreeBSD specific newsgroups, along with numerous other newsgroups on topics of interest to FreeBSD users, though the mailing lists remain the most reliable way to get in touch with the FreeBSD developers. For miscellaneous FreeBSD discussion, see comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. For important announcements, see comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce.

The BSD Usenet News Searcher have archives of all BSD-related Usenet newsgroups from June 1992 onwards.

IRC

While #freebsd channels exist on various IRC networks, the FreeBSD project does not control them or endorse IRC as a support medium. You may be ignored, insulted, or kicked out if you ask questions on any channel in IRC, though you may have slightly better luck in channels named #freebsdhelp where such exist. If you want to try these or any other channels on IRC, it is nonetheless at your own risk and any complaints about conduct on those channels should not be directed to the FreeBSD project. See also the FAQ entry for more information.

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Try connecting to www.yourcountry.FreeBSD.org (e.g. www.de.FreeBSD.org for Germany or www.au.FreeBSD.org for Australia), or select a mirror from the list on the home page. The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

In addition to the mirrors, several non-English web resources are available:
For information on recent FreeBSD progress and releases, see the Newsflash page.

GNATS Problem Report Database

Current FreeBSD problem reports are tracked using the GNATS database.

Problem reports may also be submitted to the development team using the send-pr(1) command on a FreeBSD system or by sending an email message to freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG. Please note that send-pr is preferred since messages sent to the mailing list are not tracked as official problem reports!

CVS Repository

CVS (the Concurrent Version System) is the tool we use for keeping our sources under control. Every change (with accompanying log message explaining its purpose) from FreeBSD 2.0 to the present is stored here, and can be easily viewed from here (click on the link). To obtain a complete copy of the FreeBSD CVS repository or any of the development branches inside it, you may choose any one of following options:

cvsup if you are looking for on-demand, low overhead access using a custom utility (written in Modula-3 no less).
anoncvs if you are looking for on-demand access that has higher overhead than cvsup (in terms of wall time and bytes transferred) but is easier to use for checking out small pieces of the tree and requires nothing more than the cvs tools already bundled with FreeBSD.
CTM if you are looking for very low overhead, batch-mode access (basically, patches through email).
The web interface if you are looking to simply browse the repository in search of a specific change or file revision.
Finally, if you have got bandwidth to burn or you prefer / are forced to use FTP, you can simply mirror the CVS repository from ftp.FreeBSD.org.

Mirrors of the CVS Repository cgi script are available in California, Germany, Japan and Spain (English, Spanish).

User Groups

FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups around the world. If you know of a FreeBSD user group not listed here, let us know about it.

Australia

New South Wales. The BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) meets in Sydney every two months and has mailing list members from all over NSW. To join the mailing list send a message to majordomo@bugs.au.FreeBSD.org with subscribe bugs in the body of the message.
Queensland. The Home Unix Users Group for Brisbane meets fortnightly at meeting rooms provided by the University of Queensland. More information, including how to join the mailing lists, is available at http://www.humbug.org.au
South Australia. BUGA, the BSD User Group of Adelaide, meets at irregular intervals. Join the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@lemis.com with the text subscribe BUGA in the body.
Victoria. Victoria's FreeBSD Users Group (VicFUG) is based in Melbourne. You can join the mailing list by sending an empty message to general-subscribe@vicfug.au.FreeBSD.org
West Australia. Pandaemonium, the BSD Users Group for Western Australia.

Europe

Austria. The BSD User Group Austria (BUGAT) is german-language oriented user group. Visit our server for more information.
The Netherlands. The Dutch FreeBSD User Group (NLFUG) has had its first meeting on oct 2, 1999. On this day 30 years before that, the second IMP was installed in Doug Englebart's lab at SRI. This, as you all know, was the start of something that grew to be the Internet (thanks to Edwin Kremer for bringing this under our attention).
Denmark BSD-DK. The Danish BSD user group. Promotion and support of BSD derived Operating Systems in Denmark. Mailing lists, lectures and workshops. Send mail subscription requests to bsd-dk-request@bsd-dk.dk.
K�ln (Cologne), Germany The CBUG (Cologne BSD Usergroup) caters to BSD users in the K�ln area. Meetings are on the fourth Friday of each month at the ``Campi'' Italian restaurant in the Richard-Wallraff-Platz.
Duisburg, Germany The Cosmo-Project is a user group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it is not a specifically FreeBSD-related group.
France The French FreeBSD UG. Please follow the link for details.
Frankfurt, Germany FrankfurtBSD is a user group for the Rhein-Main area. We are currently looking for new members. As soon as we have grown larger, we would like to meet monthly and maintain minor projects.
Hamburg, Germany The BSDHH (BSD User Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotosbl�te, L�wenstra�e 22 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome.
Ireland The BUGI (BSD User Group Ireland) is currently a rather grandiose term for a mailing list and super-minimal web page. All BSD users and enthusiasts are welcome.
Italia The GUFI (Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is an "italian powered" FreeBSD User Group. It is intended to help Italian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on/about FreeBSD in the Italian language. Please follow this link to know more about us.
Lublin, Poland The Lublin BSD Users Group. Please follow the link for details.
Lund, Sweden The Lund Linux User Group (LFUG) has nearly 50 members and covers FreeBSD and Solaris in addition to Linux. To join, contact Omar Dedovic
Manchester, UK The Manchester BSD Users Group meets reasonably often in the Lass O'Gowrie, on Charles Street, Manchester. Contact Sam Smith for more information.
Mannheim, Germany The UUGRN (Unix Users Group Rhein-Neckar) provides a regional forum for users of all Unix flavors, with a stress on Linux and BSD. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at the "Eichbaum Brauhaus" in Mannheim-Käfertal and the fourth Thursday of each month at the "Vater Rhein" in Heidelberg.
M�nchen (Munich), Germany The BIM (Berkeley In Munich) group caters for users of BSD-based systems in Oberbayern.
Regensburg, Germany The Unix and Linux User Group is a general Unix users group for anyone in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). We meet on every first Monday of the month in the Pub ``Filmb�hne'' in Regensburg. Visit the web site or send a message to m.suess@2use.org.
Romania The ROFUG (Romanian FreeBSD Users Group/Free Unix Group) is a user group for the Romanian users of FreeBSD and open-source in general, promoting and supporting FreeBSD and open source usage. To join the mailing lists, send an email to listar@rofug.ro with subscribe rofug and/or subscribe rofug-announce in the body of the message.
Sweden The BSD Users Sweden (BUS) maintains a mailing list. To join, send mail to majordomo@stacken.kth.se with subscribe bus in the message.
Turkey The Turkish FreeBSD Users Group (T�rkiye FreeBSD Kullanicilari Grubu) was founded in September 1999. TFUG is intended to help Turkish FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Turkish language. Contact M. Guven Mucuk for more info.
United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United Kingdom. Please follow the link for details.
Yugoslavia The Yugoslavia BSD Users Group provides an open forum for all things BSD-related in the Serbian language. To join the mailing list, send an email to majordomo@bsd.org.yu with subscribe bsdyu in the body of the message.

North America

Ames, Iowa The Ames Free-Unix Group aims to promote the use of Free Unix. We meet on the campus of Iowa State University once a month and hold a presentation with an open question and answer session afterwards. You can join our mailing list by sending a blank email to aafugit-subscribe@aafugit.org.
Berkeley, CA The Berkeley Unix User Group is a general Unix users group for anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area. We meet on a weekly basis in downtown Berkeley. Visit the web site or send a message to buug-request@weak.org with subscribe in the body.
Chicago IL The Chicago FreeBSD Users Group (ChiFUG).
The Connecticut Free Unix user's Group (CFUG) is devoted to free Unix, but has resources for almost all Unixen. Their area of operation is Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. More information can be found at http://www.cfug.org.
The Houston TX Houston FreeBSD Users Group was formed March 1999. Our goal is to promote and educate Houston area computer users on FreeBSD Unix. We meet on the third Saturday of the month. The group operates a mailing list at http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd Visit our website at http://www.houfug.org for more information.
Indianapolis IN Free Unix for Indianapolis is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the use of Free Unix variants in and around Indianapolis. Essentially, we are a bunch of geeks who share a common passion: Unix. Visit the web site or send a message to info@fufin.org for additional information.
Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more information.
Kansas Wichita Area FreeBSD Users Group (WAFUG) is a free users group provided to anyone in the Wichita area for support with FreeBSD and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems. We meet twice a month, usually in a restaraunt where you can smoke or drink if you like. Please send us Email for more information or to find out how to get free shell account, www or ftp space on our system.
Las Vegas, NV The Vegas Free Unix User Group
Los Angeles CA The Yahoo Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user group.
New Mexico The NMLUG in Albuquerque meets once a month and supports both BSD and Linux users. To join the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@swcp.com with subscribe nmlug in the body.
New Orleans LA The New Orleans *BSD User Group meets twice a month. Contact Konrad Rzeszutek for more details. A web page will be posted soon.
New York NY D'Artagnan's FreeBSD Users Group.
Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona. Please contact Russell Carter ( rcarter@consys.com) for details.
Orlando, FL BUGO (BSD Users Group of Orlando) is a group based in Orlando, FL that aims to bring a friendly forum to all Unix users in the central Florida area, and hopefully beyond. See the BUGO web page for further details.
Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is fully open for business. Anyone from the Phoenix area please feel free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us.
Portland, OR The Portland (Oregon) FreeBSD Users group meets on the third Thursday of each month. Mail Rick Hamell.
Reno NV RUUG (Reno Unix Users Group) meets monthly in Reno Nevada and discusses the use of FreeBSD and Linux. Contact Eric Blood or Todd Crenshaw for more information.
Research Triangle, NC The Triangle Area BSD Users Group is a users group for BSD users in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, including the surrounding metropolitan areas of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. People interested in this group may subscribe to the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@tribug.org with subscribe tribug-members in the body.
Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix Group supports every form of Unix that can be obtained freely. They can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or by e-mail at: rifug@entropy.tmok.com
St. Louis, MO The St. Louis BSD User Group (STLBSD) has just formed on July 20, 2000 to promote BSD operating systems in the St. Louis area. We have strong ties to the 10 year old St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) and expect to be a positive force within our community. Our membership is open to anyone interested in learning more about BSD, several mailing lists are available through our website.
San Diego, California San Diego BSD Users Group for users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The meeting is first Thursday of every month at Borders Bookstore in Mission Valley Shopping Center. More information can be found here
North San Francisco Bay Area The BABUG (Bay Area BSD Users Group) has monthly meetings, alternating between San Francisco and Berkeley. Those interested in attending should visit the web site or send mail to the BABUG Web Master
Silicon Valley, CA The SVBUG (Silicon Valley BSD User Group), a forum for BSD and BSD embedded systems, meets on the First Thursday of the month. Meetings are held at the Carl's Jr. on First Street and Trimble Road in San Jose, California. For details on event or what is going on visit the website or send a message to webmaster@svbug.com.
East Texas The Unix Users of Deep East Texas is dedicated to all things Unix. This group is open to users of all flavors of Unix. We meet on the last Saturday of the month at the Angelina County Court House. See the web page for details, or send email to admin@uudet.org.
The Tampa Florida users group is now being formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org with subscribe in the body.
Greater Toronto Area, Ontario: The GTABUG usergroup welcomes all BSD users. Monthly meetings give attendees a chance to share ideas, discussion, and information. Installathons and other events help preach the good news of BSD to the community. Come drop by for a meeting!
Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group, Arizona.
Utah SLLUG-BUG is a BSD Unix User Group affiliated with the Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG). We meet in concert with SLLUG, since the BSD and Linux communities have so much in common. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month, check the web page for details.
Vancouver, BC The VanBUG (Vancouver BSD Users Group) is a group of volunteers who are passionate about FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Their current goal is to raise awareness and also provide local assistance as much as we can.
Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area) FreeBSD User Group. Please contact Richard Cramer, Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at rcramer@sytex.net to be put on a member distribution list.
Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD users group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working on our site, but we wanted to get it up as soon as we had it available. We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more information!
Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) covers BSD, Solaris, SCO, and others. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can be found at http://www.wuug.org/.
Wisconsin FreeBSD-Milwaukee Wisconsin meets occasionally and has a mailing list: freebsd-mke-l@ns.sol.net. send mail to freebsd-mke-l-request@ns.sol.net to subscribe.

Rest of the world

Ibaraki, Japan The Daibou East *BSD Users Group (DEBUG) is now forming for *BSD users in Tsukuba area.
Indonesia The Jogja FreeBSD Users' Group is based in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. Send email to 22961476@students.ukdw.ac.id for more information.
Israel The Israeli BSD Users Group is an effort to promote the use of *BSD throughout the country, and to act as a center of information for all BSD users. It is currently run by FreeBSD users, but all users of bsd Variants are welcome aboard. We have a mailing list, hosted at bsd-il@osem.co.il. To subscribe, simply send mail to majordomo@osem.co.il, with the line "subscribe bsd-il" as the message body.
Kansai, Japan The Kansai *BSD User's Group, K*BUG (sorry for Japanese only), was established on November 13, 1999. It is expected to promote communication of any of the BSD variants' users. Some of its activities are to hold friendly parties of the members, and to hold seminars covering wide variety of topics. Please mail here ( kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp ).
New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled yet.
Sao Paulo, Brazil The FUG_SP_BR (Brazilian FreeBSD User Group) is a Portuguese language oriented user group intended to help Brazilian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Portuguese language. The group meets in Sao Paulo, Brazil, every month. To join FUG_SP_BR mailing list, send a blank message to fug_sp_br-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

FreeBSD Development Projects

In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions.

FreeBSD Security Guide

Security resources available to FreeBSD users: PGP Key for Security Officers, advisories, patches and mailing lists.

Commercial Consulting Services

Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer.

General Unix Information

The Unix Reference Desk by Mennifer Myers
Jeff's Unix Vault
Unix Guru Universe
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Unix Power

The X Window System

The XFree86 Project provides users of a variety of Intel based Unix systems, including FreeBSD, with an excellent X Window system.
The WINE project is working to provide the ability to run MS-Windows software on Intel based Unix systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux.

Hardware

The comp.answers pc-hardware-faq is a great reference for people building their own machines.
Laptop users looking for PCCARD (aka PCMCIA) support not already provided in the FreeBSD base distribution should see the PAO distribution page for the latest and greatest experimental laptop support.
Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know - lots of information about Intel chips.
Aad Offerman's Chip List - reference material on chips used in PC clones.
ASUS makes motherboards that work well with FreeBSD.

Related Operating System Projects

NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures.
OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative.
Linux is another free Unix-like system.
Lites is a 4.4 BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides free Unix functionality to a Mach based system.
xMach is a Lites and Mach4 derivative designed to be small and efficient with extended functionality.
The GNU HURD project is another effort to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

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Newsgroups
IRC
WEB Resources
GNATS Problem Report Database
CVS Repository
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FreeBSD Security Guide
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Hardware
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Mailing lists

The FreeBSD Conspectus is a summary of some of the mailing lists produced each week, giving you an at-a-glance overview of recent discussions and decisions.

Several non-English mailing lists are also available:

Traditional Chinese -- WWW, Big5 encoding.
Simplified Chinese -- majordomo@cn.FreeBSD.org, GB2312 encoding.
Czech -- majordomo@FreeBSD.cz
German -- majordomo@de.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
French -- listserver@FreeBSD-fr.org or WWW.
Hungarian -- majordomo@hu.FreeBSD.org
Indonesian -- id-freebsd-subscribe@egroups.com
Italian -- minimalist@gufi.org or WWW.
Japanese -- majordomo@jp.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
Korean -- majordomo@kr.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
Netherlands -- majordomo@nl.FreeBSD.org.
Polish -- majordomo@pap.waw.pl
Portuguese -- listproc@br.FreeBSD.org or WWW.
Slovakian -- majordomo@sk.FreeBSD.org
Spanish -- majordomo@es.FreeBSD.org

If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, let us know about them.

Newsgroups

The BSD Usenet News Searcher have archives of all BSD-related Usenet newsgroups from June 1992 onwards.

IRC

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Try connecting to www.yourcountry.FreeBSD.org (e.g. www.de.FreeBSD.org for Germany or www.au.FreeBSD.org for Australia), or select a mirror from the list on the home page. The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

In addition to the mirrors, several non-English web resources are available:
For information on recent FreeBSD progress and releases, see the Newsflash page.

GNATS Problem Report Database

Current FreeBSD problem reports are tracked using the GNATS database.

CVS Repository

cvsup if you are looking for on-demand, low overhead access using a custom utility (written in Modula-3 no less).
anoncvs if you are looking for on-demand access that has higher overhead than cvsup (in terms of wall time and bytes transferred) but is easier to use for checking out small pieces of the tree and requires nothing more than the cvs tools already bundled with FreeBSD.
CTM if you are looking for very low overhead, batch-mode access (basically, patches through email).
The web interface if you are looking to simply browse the repository in search of a specific change or file revision.
Finally, if you have got bandwidth to burn or you prefer / are forced to use FTP, you can simply mirror the CVS repository from ftp.FreeBSD.org.

Mirrors of the CVS Repository cgi script are available in California, Germany, Japan and Spain (English, Spanish).

User Groups

FreeBSD's widespread popularity has spawned a number of user groups around the world. If you know of a FreeBSD user group not listed here, let us know about it.

Australia

New South Wales. The BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) meets in Sydney every two months and has mailing list members from all over NSW. To join the mailing list send a message to majordomo@bugs.au.FreeBSD.org with subscribe bugs in the body of the message.
Queensland. The Home Unix Users Group for Brisbane meets fortnightly at meeting rooms provided by the University of Queensland. More information, including how to join the mailing lists, is available at http://www.humbug.org.au
South Australia. BUGA, the BSD User Group of Adelaide, meets at irregular intervals. Join the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@lemis.com with the text subscribe BUGA in the body.
Victoria. Victoria's FreeBSD Users Group (VicFUG) is based in Melbourne. You can join the mailing list by sending an empty message to general-subscribe@vicfug.au.FreeBSD.org
West Australia. Pandaemonium, the BSD Users Group for Western Australia.

Europe

Austria. The BSD User Group Austria (BUGAT) is german-language oriented user group. Visit our server for more information.
The Netherlands. The Dutch FreeBSD User Group (NLFUG) has had its first meeting on oct 2, 1999. On this day 30 years before that, the second IMP was installed in Doug Englebart's lab at SRI. This, as you all know, was the start of something that grew to be the Internet (thanks to Edwin Kremer for bringing this under our attention).
Denmark BSD-DK. The Danish BSD user group. Promotion and support of BSD derived Operating Systems in Denmark. Mailing lists, lectures and workshops. Send mail subscription requests to bsd-dk-request@bsd-dk.dk.
K�ln (Cologne), Germany The CBUG (Cologne BSD Usergroup) caters to BSD users in the K�ln area. Meetings are on the fourth Friday of each month at the ``Campi'' Italian restaurant in the Richard-Wallraff-Platz.
Duisburg, Germany The Cosmo-Project is a user group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it is not a specifically FreeBSD-related group.
France The French FreeBSD UG. Please follow the link for details.
Frankfurt, Germany FrankfurtBSD is a user group for the Rhein-Main area. We are currently looking for new members. As soon as we have grown larger, we would like to meet monthly and maintain minor projects.
Hamburg, Germany The BSDHH (BSD User Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotosbl�te, L�wenstra�e 22 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome.
Ireland The BUGI (BSD User Group Ireland) is currently a rather grandiose term for a mailing list and super-minimal web page. All BSD users and enthusiasts are welcome.
Italia The GUFI (Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia) is an "italian powered" FreeBSD User Group. It is intended to help Italian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on/about FreeBSD in the Italian language. Please follow this link to know more about us.
Lublin, Poland The Lublin BSD Users Group. Please follow the link for details.
Lund, Sweden The Lund Linux User Group (LFUG) has nearly 50 members and covers FreeBSD and Solaris in addition to Linux. To join, contact Omar Dedovic
Manchester, UK The Manchester BSD Users Group meets reasonably often in the Lass O'Gowrie, on Charles Street, Manchester. Contact Sam Smith for more information.
Mannheim, Germany The UUGRN (Unix Users Group Rhein-Neckar) provides a regional forum for users of all Unix flavors, with a stress on Linux and BSD. Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month at the "Eichbaum Brauhaus" in Mannheim-Käfertal and the fourth Thursday of each month at the "Vater Rhein" in Heidelberg.
M�nchen (Munich), Germany The BIM (Berkeley In Munich) group caters for users of BSD-based systems in Oberbayern.
Regensburg, Germany The Unix and Linux User Group is a general Unix users group for anyone in Regensburg (Bavaria, Germany). We meet on every first Monday of the month in the Pub ``Filmb�hne'' in Regensburg. Visit the web site or send a message to m.suess@2use.org.
Romania The ROFUG (Romanian FreeBSD Users Group/Free Unix Group) is a user group for the Romanian users of FreeBSD and open-source in general, promoting and supporting FreeBSD and open source usage. To join the mailing lists, send an email to listar@rofug.ro with subscribe rofug and/or subscribe rofug-announce in the body of the message.
Sweden The BSD Users Sweden (BUS) maintains a mailing list. To join, send mail to majordomo@stacken.kth.se with subscribe bus in the message.
Turkey The Turkish FreeBSD Users Group (T�rkiye FreeBSD Kullanicilari Grubu) was founded in September 1999. TFUG is intended to help Turkish FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Turkish language. Contact M. Guven Mucuk for more info.
United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United Kingdom. Please follow the link for details.
Yugoslavia The Yugoslavia BSD Users Group provides an open forum for all things BSD-related in the Serbian language. To join the mailing list, send an email to majordomo@bsd.org.yu with subscribe bsdyu in the body of the message.

North America

Ames, Iowa The Ames Free-Unix Group aims to promote the use of Free Unix. We meet on the campus of Iowa State University once a month and hold a presentation with an open question and answer session afterwards. You can join our mailing list by sending a blank email to aafugit-subscribe@aafugit.org.
Berkeley, CA The Berkeley Unix User Group is a general Unix users group for anyone in the San Francisco Bay Area. We meet on a weekly basis in downtown Berkeley. Visit the web site or send a message to buug-request@weak.org with subscribe in the body.
Chicago IL The Chicago FreeBSD Users Group (ChiFUG).
The Connecticut Free Unix user's Group (CFUG) is devoted to free Unix, but has resources for almost all Unixen. Their area of operation is Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. More information can be found at http://www.cfug.org.
The Houston TX Houston FreeBSD Users Group was formed March 1999. Our goal is to promote and educate Houston area computer users on FreeBSD Unix. We meet on the third Saturday of the month. The group operates a mailing list at http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd Visit our website at http://www.houfug.org for more information.
Indianapolis IN Free Unix for Indianapolis is a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging the use of Free Unix variants in and around Indianapolis. Essentially, we are a bunch of geeks who share a common passion: Unix. Visit the web site or send a message to info@fufin.org for additional information.
Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more information.
Kansas Wichita Area FreeBSD Users Group (WAFUG) is a free users group provided to anyone in the Wichita area for support with FreeBSD and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems. We meet twice a month, usually in a restaraunt where you can smoke or drink if you like. Please send us Email for more information or to find out how to get free shell account, www or ftp space on our system.
Las Vegas, NV The Vegas Free Unix User Group
Los Angeles CA The Yahoo Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user group.
New Mexico The NMLUG in Albuquerque meets once a month and supports both BSD and Linux users. To join the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@swcp.com with subscribe nmlug in the body.
New Orleans LA The New Orleans *BSD User Group meets twice a month. Contact Konrad Rzeszutek for more details. A web page will be posted soon.
New York NY D'Artagnan's FreeBSD Users Group.
Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona. Please contact Russell Carter ( rcarter@consys.com) for details.
Orlando, FL BUGO (BSD Users Group of Orlando) is a group based in Orlando, FL that aims to bring a friendly forum to all Unix users in the central Florida area, and hopefully beyond. See the BUGO web page for further details.
Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is fully open for business. Anyone from the Phoenix area please feel free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us.
Portland, OR The Portland (Oregon) FreeBSD Users group meets on the third Thursday of each month. Mail Rick Hamell.
Reno NV RUUG (Reno Unix Users Group) meets monthly in Reno Nevada and discusses the use of FreeBSD and Linux. Contact Eric Blood or Todd Crenshaw for more information.
Research Triangle, NC The Triangle Area BSD Users Group is a users group for BSD users in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, including the surrounding metropolitan areas of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. People interested in this group may subscribe to the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@tribug.org with subscribe tribug-members in the body.
Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix Group supports every form of Unix that can be obtained freely. They can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or by e-mail at: rifug@entropy.tmok.com
St. Louis, MO The St. Louis BSD User Group (STLBSD) has just formed on July 20, 2000 to promote BSD operating systems in the St. Louis area. We have strong ties to the 10 year old St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) and expect to be a positive force within our community. Our membership is open to anyone interested in learning more about BSD, several mailing lists are available through our website.
San Diego, California San Diego BSD Users Group for users of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. The meeting is first Thursday of every month at Borders Bookstore in Mission Valley Shopping Center. More information can be found here
North San Francisco Bay Area The BABUG (Bay Area BSD Users Group) has monthly meetings, alternating between San Francisco and Berkeley. Those interested in attending should visit the web site or send mail to the BABUG Web Master
Silicon Valley, CA The SVBUG (Silicon Valley BSD User Group), a forum for BSD and BSD embedded systems, meets on the First Thursday of the month. Meetings are held at the Carl's Jr. on First Street and Trimble Road in San Jose, California. For details on event or what is going on visit the website or send a message to webmaster@svbug.com.
East Texas The Unix Users of Deep East Texas is dedicated to all things Unix. This group is open to users of all flavors of Unix. We meet on the last Saturday of the month at the Angelina County Court House. See the web page for details, or send email to admin@uudet.org.
The Tampa Florida users group is now being formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org with subscribe in the body.
Greater Toronto Area, Ontario: The GTABUG usergroup welcomes all BSD users. Monthly meetings give attendees a chance to share ideas, discussion, and information. Installathons and other events help preach the good news of BSD to the community. Come drop by for a meeting!
Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group, Arizona.
Utah SLLUG-BUG is a BSD Unix User Group affiliated with the Salt Lake Linux User Group (SLLUG). We meet in concert with SLLUG, since the BSD and Linux communities have so much in common. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month, check the web page for details.
Vancouver, BC The VanBUG (Vancouver BSD Users Group) is a group of volunteers who are passionate about FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Their current goal is to raise awareness and also provide local assistance as much as we can.
Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area) FreeBSD User Group. Please contact Richard Cramer, Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at rcramer@sytex.net to be put on a member distribution list.
Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD users group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working on our site, but we wanted to get it up as soon as we had it available. We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more information!
Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) covers BSD, Solaris, SCO, and others. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can be found at http://www.wuug.org/.
Wisconsin FreeBSD-Milwaukee Wisconsin meets occasionally and has a mailing list: freebsd-mke-l@ns.sol.net. send mail to freebsd-mke-l-request@ns.sol.net to subscribe.

Rest of the world

Ibaraki, Japan The Daibou East *BSD Users Group (DEBUG) is now forming for *BSD users in Tsukuba area.
Indonesia The Jogja FreeBSD Users' Group is based in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. Send email to 22961476@students.ukdw.ac.id for more information.
Israel The Israeli BSD Users Group is an effort to promote the use of *BSD throughout the country, and to act as a center of information for all BSD users. It is currently run by FreeBSD users, but all users of bsd Variants are welcome aboard. We have a mailing list, hosted at bsd-il@osem.co.il. To subscribe, simply send mail to majordomo@osem.co.il, with the line "subscribe bsd-il" as the message body.
Kansai, Japan The Kansai *BSD User's Group, K*BUG (sorry for Japanese only), was established on November 13, 1999. It is expected to promote communication of any of the BSD variants' users. Some of its activities are to hold friendly parties of the members, and to hold seminars covering wide variety of topics. Please mail here ( kbug-admin@kbug.gr.jp ).
New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled yet.
Sao Paulo, Brazil The FUG_SP_BR (Brazilian FreeBSD User Group) is a Portuguese language oriented user group intended to help Brazilian FreeBSD users to find support and articles on and about FreeBSD in the Portuguese language. The group meets in Sao Paulo, Brazil, every month. To join FUG_SP_BR mailing list, send a blank message to fug_sp_br-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

FreeBSD Development Projects

In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions.

FreeBSD Security Guide

Security resources available to FreeBSD users: PGP Key for Security Officers, advisories, patches and mailing lists.

Commercial Consulting Services

Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer.

General Unix Information

The Unix Reference Desk by Mennifer Myers
Jeff's Unix Vault
Unix Guru Universe
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Unix Power

The X Window System

The XFree86 Project provides users of a variety of Intel based Unix systems, including FreeBSD, with an excellent X Window system.
The WINE project is working to provide the ability to run MS-Windows software on Intel based Unix systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux.

Hardware

The comp.answers pc-hardware-faq is a great reference for people building their own machines.
Laptop users looking for PCCARD (aka PCMCIA) support not already provided in the FreeBSD base distribution should see the PAO distribution page for the latest and greatest experimental laptop support.
Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know - lots of information about Intel chips.
Aad Offerman's Chip List - reference material on chips used in PC clones.
ASUS makes motherboards that work well with FreeBSD.

Related Operating System Projects

NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures.
OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative.
Linux is another free Unix-like system.
Lites is a 4.4 BSD Lite based server and emulation library that provides free Unix functionality to a Mach based system.
xMach is a Lites and Mach4 derivative designed to be small and efficient with extended functionality.
The GNU HURD project is another effort to develop a free Unix-like operating system.

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Release Information

Detailed descriptions of past, present, and future releases. Look here first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is.

Installing FreeBSD

There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation from CDROM, floppy disk, an MS-DOS partition, magnetic tape, anonymous ftp, and NFS. Please read through the installation guide before downloading the entire FreeBSD distribution. If you are installing on a machine connected to the Internet, you may only need to download a single installation disk image!

Distribution Sites

The official sources for FreeBSD are:

Anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD:
Anonymous ftp from one of the numerous mirror sites
On CDROM from FreeBSD Mall

If you plan on getting FreeBSD via ftp, please check the listing of mirror sites in the handbook to see if there is a site closer to you. For more information about past, present and future releases in general, please visit the release information page.

If you're interested in a purely experimental snapshot release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 5.0-current), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the daily snapshot server FTP site.

Applications and Utility Software

The Packages collection

The FreeBSD packages collection is a diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to FreeBSD. The packages are pre-compiled binaries ready to drop into your system and run.

The Ports collection

The Ports collection is like the packages collection, but the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided instead of compiled binaries. For software with important configuration that must be done at compile time, the "port" version may be more useful than the "package" version.

For information about how you can contribute your favorite piece of software to the port collection, have a look at The Porter's Handbook and the Contributing to FreeBSD chapter in the FreeBSD handbook.

Commercial software

Beginning with FreeBSD Release 2.0.5, FreeBSD includes demo versions of some commercial as well as some shareware products. In addition to the demos available in the FreeBSD distribution, a number of other commercial vendors offer software products specifically for FreeBSD.

Commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD

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As management understanding of the Year 2000 problem (aka, "The Millennium Bug") increases, more and more companies are demanding official statements from the vendors of their hardware and software as to how their product will handle the year 2000 date rollover.

Organizations that use Unix and Unix-like operating systems such as FreeBSD are already one step ahead of the problem. FreeBSD will properly maintain time long after year 2000 passes.

Background information

(This section based on the text from the Linux Y2K compliance page)

As with all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, time and dates in FreeBSD are represented internally as the number of seconds since the 1st of January 1970 (the Unix "epoch"). Currently, that figure is stored as a 32 bit integer, and will run out part way through 2038. By then we should (hopefully) be using a counter of 64 bits (or greater) which should be good until the end of the universe.

Note that the OS being Y2K compliant will not fix errant applications that are not Y2K compliant.

Note also that the OS expects to read the current date and time from the CMOS clock of your computer. Not all of these devices correctly handle the year 2000. You are advised to test each platform individually to ensure that your hardware clock behaves correctly when going from 1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap year.

What you can do

FreeBSD will continue to properly maintain time well into the next century. Third party applications, however, might not. Your best defense against year 2000 issues is a good offense. Listening to stories claiming the coming meltdown of the world as we know it are not the way to solve the millennium bug. Nor is waiting until the last minute. The FreeBSD Project recommends that your organization apply sound system administration principles as the millennium approaches.

FreeBSD Year 2000 Statement

"After extensive analysis and testing, we believe that FreeBSD is 100% Y2K compliant. In the unlikely event that something has been overlooked, we will do our best to fix it as soon as possible."

David Greenman
Principal Architect, The FreeBSD project

Fixed problems

The following Y2K problems have been identified and fixed in FreeBSD.

misc/1380: Several programs have a hardcoded 19%d in responses for the year. Affected programs include: yacc, ftpd, and make. [Fixed: yacc v1.2 1999/01/18; ftpd v1.7 1996/08/05; make v1.4 1996/10/06; fixes in FreeBSD-2.2 and above]
conf/1382: The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line for the message of the day relies on the year not going past 1999. [Fixed v1.21 1996/10/24; fixes in FreeBSD-2.2 and above]
misc/3465: The etc/namedb/make-localhost command generates the DNS serial number as YYMMDD. In the year 2000, this will be generated as 1YYMMDD. [Fixed v1.2 1997/08/11; fixes in FreeBSD-2.2.5 and above]
gnu/4930 and gnu/8321: groff tmac macros have hardcoded 19 for generating some dates. [Fixed: tmac.e v1.3 1998/12/06; doc-common v1.10 1999/01/19; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
bin/9323: In its obsolescent form, touch doesn't treat the two digit year specification correctly. Years in the range 00-68 are treated as 1900-1968 instead of 2000-2068. [Fixed v1.7 1999/01/05; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c: The leap year calculations for the number of days in a year, and the conversion of DCF77 time to seconds since the Epoch were wrong. These errors affected all years. [Fixed v1.6 1999/01/12; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
tar/getdate.y: Function Convert() was hard-coded for two digit years in range 70-99. Now adjusted to allow two digit years for 1970-2069. The function does not allow for century non-leap years - y2k1 alert! [Fixed v1.4 1999/01/12; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
fetch/http.c: The HTTP protocol includes an obsolete date format which uses a two-digit year. Previous versions of fetch would interpret all such dates in the 1900s; subsequent to this revision, the pivot described in RFC 2068 is employed, which causes two-digit years to be interpreted as always belonging to the current century unless they would be 50 or more years in the future. Since the HTTP servers which use this obsolete format are no longer widespread, this is not expected to have a significant impact. [Fixed v1.24 1999/01/15; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
misc/9500: The `edithook' script in the CVSROOT directory uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.2 1999/01/17; not relevant to FreeBSD releases]
bin/9501: Several cvs contrib files are not Y2K compliant. The log.pl and sccs2rcs.csh scripts prepend `19' to the year resulting in a display of 19100 for 2000. The log_accum.pl script uses a two digit year in one place and in another place assumes that the tm_year is year within century rather than years since 1900. [Fixed: log.pl v1.2 1999/01/15; sccs2rcs.csh v1.3 1999/01/15; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
bin/9502: The groff number register `yr' is assigned from a (struct tm).tm_year and therefore represents the number of years since 1900, not the year within the century (see definition in troff/input.cc). [Fixed, now set mod 100, troff/input.cc V1.2 1999/06/03; fixed in FreeBSD-3.3]
bin/9503: PicoBSD's simple_httpd uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.2 1999/01/16; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
bin/9505: Adduser uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100/01/01 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.42 1999/01/15; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
bin/9506: Cron uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100 for 2000. [Fixed v1.7 1999/01/16; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
bin/9507: tcpslice(8) uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100y01m01d... for 2000-JAN-01. For compatibility, use a two-digit year until 2000.[Fixed v1.8 1999/01/20; fixes in FreeBSD-3.1 and above]
bin/14472: Date command does not take thousand/hundred digits. [Fixed v1.31 1999/11/10]
misc/14511: Chpass has a problem using 00 for expiration year.
bin/15852 and gnu/16045 and bin/16207: Groff predefined \*(DT [\*(td] string has Y2K bug. [Fixed with import of version 1.15 2000/01/12]
bin/15872: at(1) has a problem with valid time specifications if tm_year is 100, reports `garbled time'.
misc/16238: KerberosIV install does not work properly because there is a hard-wired expiration date of 12/31/99 in the Kerberos source for the ticket granter. [Fixed v1.24 1999/09/19]

More information

If you have further questions about FreeBSD's year 2000 compliance, or you have discovered an application running under FreeBSD that is not Y2K compliant, please contact the project at freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG.

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