diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml index 36d321db32..66e9c39978 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml @@ -1,1791 +1,1791 @@ Resources on the Internet The rapid pace of FreeBSD progress makes print media impractical as a means of following the latest developments. Electronic resources are the best, if not often the only, way stay informed of the latest advances. Since FreeBSD is a volunteer effort, the user community itself also generally serves as a technical support department of sorts, with electronic mail 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. If you are aware of other resources not mentioned here, please send them to the &a.doc; so that they may also be included. Mailing Lists Though many of the FreeBSD development members read USENET, we cannot always guarantee that we will get to your questions in a timely fashion (or at all) if you post them only to one of the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.* groups. By addressing your questions to the appropriate mailing list you will reach both us and a concentrated FreeBSD audience, invariably assuring a better (or at least faster) response. The charters for the various lists are given at the bottom of this document. Please read the charter before joining or sending mail to any list. Most of our list subscribers now receive many hundreds of FreeBSD related messages every day, and by setting down charters and rules for proper use we are striving to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of the lists high. To do less would see the mailing lists ultimately fail as an effective communications medium for the project. When in doubt about what list to post a question to, see How to get best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list. Before posting to any list, please learn about how to best use the mailing lists, such as how to help avoid frequently-repeated discussions, by reading the Mailing List Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document. Archives are kept for all of the mailing lists and can be searched using the FreeBSD World Wide Web server. The keyword searchable archive offers an excellent way of finding answers to frequently asked questions and should be consulted before posting a question. List Summary General lists: The following are general lists which anyone is free (and encouraged) to join: List Purpose &a.cvsall.name; Changes made to the FreeBSD source tree &a.advocacy.name; FreeBSD Evangelism &a.announce.name; Important events and project milestones &a.arch.name; Architecture and design discussions &a.bugbusters.name; Discussions pertaining to the maintenance of the FreeBSD problem report database and related tools &a.bugs.name; Bug reports &a.chat.name; Non-technical items related to the FreeBSD community &a.current.name; Discussion concerning the use of &os.current; &a.isp.name; Issues for Internet Service Providers using FreeBSD &a.jobs.name; FreeBSD employment and consulting opportunities &a.policy.name; FreeBSD Core team policy decisions. Low volume, and read-only &a.questions.name; User questions and technical support &a.security-notifications.name; Security notifications &a.stable.name; Discussion concerning the use of &os.stable; &a.test.name; Where to send your test messages instead of one of the actual lists Technical lists: The following lists are for technical discussion. You should read the charter for each list carefully before joining or sending mail to one as there are firm guidelines for their use and content. List Purpose &a.acpi.name; ACPI and power management development &a.afs.name; Porting AFS to FreeBSD &a.aic7xxx.name; Developing drivers for the &adaptec; AIC 7xxx &a.alpha.name; Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha &a.amd64.name; Porting FreeBSD to AMD64 systems &a.apache.name; Discussion about Apache related ports &a.arm.name; Porting FreeBSD to &arm; processors &a.atm.name; Using ATM networking with FreeBSD &a.audit.name; Source code audit project &a.binup.name; Design and development of the binary update system &a.bluetooth.name; Using &bluetooth; technology in FreeBSD &a.cluster.name; Using FreeBSD in a clustered environment &a.cvsweb.name; CVSweb maintenance &a.database.name; Discussing database use and development under FreeBSD &a.doc.name; Creating FreeBSD related documents &a.drivers.name; Writing device drivers for &os; &a.eclipse.name; FreeBSD users of Eclipse IDE, tools, rich client applications and ports. &a.embedded.name; Using FreeBSD in embedded applications &a.emulation.name; Emulation of other systems such as Linux/&ms-dos;/&windows; &a.firewire.name; FreeBSD &firewire; (iLink, IEEE 1394) technical discussion &a.fs.name; File systems &a.geom.name; GEOM-specific discussions and implementations &a.gnome.name; Porting GNOME and GNOME applications &a.hackers.name; General technical discussion &a.hardware.name; General discussion of hardware for running FreeBSD &a.i18n.name; FreeBSD Internationalization &a.ia32.name; FreeBSD on the IA-32 (&intel; x86) platform &a.ia64.name; Porting FreeBSD to &intel;'s upcoming IA64 systems &a.ipfw.name; Technical discussion concerning the redesign of the IP firewall code &a.isdn.name; ISDN developers &a.java.name; &java; developers and people porting &jdk;s to FreeBSD &a.kde.name; Porting KDE and KDE applications &a.lfs.name; Porting LFS to FreeBSD &a.libh.name; The second generation installation and package system &a.mips.name; Porting FreeBSD to &mips; &a.mobile.name; Discussions about mobile computing &a.mozilla.name; Porting Mozilla to FreeBSD &a.multimedia.name; Multimedia applications &a.newbus.name; Technical discussions about bus architecture &a.net.name; Networking discussion and TCP/IP source code &a.openoffice.name; Porting OpenOffice.org and &staroffice; to FreeBSD &a.performance.name; Performance tuning questions for high performance/load installations &a.perl.name; Maintenance of a number of Perl-related ports &a.pf.name; Discussion and questions about the packet filter firewall system &a.platforms.name; Concerning ports to non &intel; architecture platforms &a.ports.name; Discussion of the Ports Collection &a.ports-bugs.name; Discussion of the ports bugs/PRs &a.ppc.name; Porting FreeBSD to the &powerpc; &a.proliant.name; Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms &a.python.name; FreeBSD-specific Python issues &a.qa.name; Discussion of Quality Assurance, usually pending a release &a.rc.name; Discussion related to the rc.d system and its development &a.realtime.name; Development of realtime extensions to FreeBSD &a.scsi.name; The SCSI subsystem &a.security.name; Security issues affecting FreeBSD &a.small.name; Using FreeBSD in embedded applications (obsolete; use &a.embedded.name; instead) &a.smp.name; Design discussions for [A]Symmetric MultiProcessing &a.sparc.name; Porting FreeBSD to &sparc; based systems &a.standards.name; FreeBSD's conformance to the C99 and the &posix; standards &a.sun4v.name; - Porting FreeBSD to &sun4v; based systems + Porting FreeBSD to &ultrasparc; T1 based systems &a.threads.name; Threading in FreeBSD &a.testing.name; FreeBSD Performance and Stability Tests &a.tokenring.name; Support Token Ring in FreeBSD &a.usb.name; Discussing &os; support for USB &a.vuxml.name; Discussion on VuXML infrastructure &a.x11.name; Maintenance and support of X11 on FreeBSD Limited lists: The following lists are for more specialized (and demanding) audiences and are probably not of interest to the general public. It is also a good idea to establish a presence in the technical lists before joining one of these limited lists so that you will understand the communications etiquette involved. List Purpose &a.hubs.name; People running mirror sites (infrastructural support) &a.usergroups.name; User group coordination &a.vendors.name; Vendors pre-release coordination &a.www.name; Maintainers of www.FreeBSD.org Digest lists: All of the above lists are available in a digest format. Once subscribed to a list, you can change your digest options in your account options section. CVS lists: The following lists are for people interested in seeing the log messages for changes to various areas of the source tree. They are Read-Only lists and should not have mail sent to them. List Source area Area Description (source for) &a.cvsall.name; /usr/(CVSROOT|doc|ports|projects|src) All changes to any place in the tree (superset of other CVS commit lists) &a.cvs-doc.name; /usr/(doc|www) All changes to the doc and www trees &a.cvs-ports.name; /usr/ports All changes to the ports tree &a.cvs-projects.name; /usr/projects All changes to the projects tree &a.cvs-src.name; /usr/src All changes to the src tree How to Subscribe To subscribe to a list, click on the list name above or go to &a.mailman.lists.link; and click on the list that you are interested in. The list page should contain all of the necessary subscription instructions. To actually post to a given list you simply send mail to listname@FreeBSD.org. It will then be redistributed to mailing list members world-wide. To unsubscribe yourself from a list, click on the URL found at the bottom of every email received from the list. It is also possible to send an email to listname-unsubscribe@FreeBSD.org to unsubscribe yourself. Again, we would like to request that you keep discussion in the technical mailing lists on a technical track. If you are only interested in important announcements then it is suggested that you join the &a.announce;, which is intended only for infrequent traffic. List Charters All FreeBSD mailing lists have certain basic rules which must be adhered to by anyone using them. Failure to comply with these guidelines will result in two (2) written warnings from the FreeBSD Postmaster postmaster@FreeBSD.org, after which, on a third offense, the poster will removed from all FreeBSD mailing lists and filtered from further posting to them. We regret that such rules and measures are necessary at all, but today's Internet is a pretty harsh environment, it would seem, and many fail to appreciate just how fragile some of its mechanisms are. Rules of the road: The topic of any posting should adhere to the basic charter of the list it is posted to, e.g. if the list is about technical issues then your posting should contain technical discussion. Ongoing irrelevant chatter or flaming only detracts from the value of the mailing list for everyone on it and will not be tolerated. For free-form discussion on no particular topic, the &a.chat; is freely available and should be used instead. No posting should be made to more than 2 mailing lists, and only to 2 when a clear and obvious need to post to both lists exists. For most lists, there is already a great deal of subscriber overlap and except for the most esoteric mixes (say -stable & -scsi), there really is no reason to post to more than one list at a time. If a message is sent to you in such a way that multiple mailing lists appear on the Cc line then the Cc line should also be trimmed before sending it out again. You are still responsible for your own cross-postings, no matter who the originator might have been. Personal attacks and profanity (in the context of an argument) are not allowed, and that includes users and developers alike. Gross breaches of netiquette, like excerpting or reposting private mail when permission to do so was not and would not be forthcoming, are frowned upon but not specifically enforced. However, there are also very few cases where such content would fit within the charter of a list and it would therefore probably rate a warning (or ban) on that basis alone. Advertising of non-FreeBSD related products or services is strictly prohibited and will result in an immediate ban if it is clear that the offender is advertising by spam. Individual list charters: &a.acpi.name; ACPI and power management development &a.afs.name; Andrew File System This list is for discussion on porting and using AFS from CMU/Transarc &a.announce.name; Important events / milestones This is the mailing list for people interested only in occasional announcements of significant FreeBSD events. This includes announcements about snapshots and other releases. It contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities. It may contain calls for volunteers etc. This is a low volume, strictly moderated mailing list. &a.arch.name; Architecture and design discussions This list is for discussion of the FreeBSD architecture. Messages will mostly be kept strictly technical in nature. Examples of suitable topics are: How to re-vamp the build system to have several customized builds running at the same time. What needs to be fixed with VFS to make Heidemann layers work. How do we change the device driver interface to be able to use the same drivers cleanly on many buses and architectures. How to write a network driver. &a.audit.name; Source code audit project This is the mailing list for the FreeBSD source code audit project. Although this was originally intended for security-related changes, its charter has been expanded to review any code changes. This list is very heavy on patches, and is probably of no interest to the average FreeBSD user. Security discussions not related to a particular code change are held on freebsd-security. Conversely, all developers are encouraged to send their patches here for review, especially if they touch a part of the system where a bug may adversely affect the integrity of the system. &a.binup.name; FreeBSD Binary Update Project This list exists to provide discussion for the binary update system, or binup. Design issues, implementation details, patches, bug reports, status reports, feature requests, commit logs, and all other things related to binup are fair game. &a.bluetooth.name; &bluetooth; in FreeBSD This is the forum where FreeBSD's &bluetooth; users congregate. Design issues, implementation details, patches, bug reports, status reports, feature requests, and all matters related to &bluetooth; are fair game. &a.bugbusters.name; Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort The purpose of this list is to serve as a coordination and discussion forum for the Bugmeister, his Bugbusters, and any other parties who have a genuine interest in the PR database. This list is not for discussions about specific bugs, patches or PRs. &a.bugs.name; Bug reports This is the mailing list for reporting bugs in FreeBSD. Whenever possible, bugs should be submitted using the &man.send-pr.1; command or the WEB interface to it. &a.chat.name; Non technical items related to the FreeBSD community This list contains the overflow from the other lists about non-technical, social information. It includes discussion about whether Jordan looks like a toon ferret or not, whether or not to type in capitals, who is drinking too much coffee, where the best beer is brewed, who is brewing beer in their basement, and so on. Occasional announcements of important events (such as upcoming parties, weddings, births, new jobs, etc) can be made to the technical lists, but the follow ups should be directed to this -chat list. &a.core.name; FreeBSD core team This is an internal mailing list for use by the core members. Messages can be sent to it when a serious FreeBSD-related matter requires arbitration or high-level scrutiny. &a.current.name; Discussions about the use of &os.current; This is the mailing list for users of &os.current;. It includes warnings about new features coming out in -CURRENT that will affect the users, and instructions on steps that must be taken to remain -CURRENT. Anyone running CURRENT must subscribe to this list. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.cvsweb.name; FreeBSD CVSweb Project Technical discussions about use, development and maintenance of FreeBSD-CVSweb. &a.doc.name; Documentation project This mailing list is for the discussion of issues and projects related to the creation of documentation for FreeBSD. The members of this mailing list are collectively referred to as The FreeBSD Documentation Project. It is an open list; feel free to join and contribute! &a.drivers.name; Writing device drivers for &os; This is a forum for technical discussions related to device drivers on &os;. It is primarily a place for device driver writers to ask questions about how to write device drivers using the APIs in the &os; kernel. &a.eclipse.name; &os; users of Eclipse IDE, tools, rich client applications and ports. The intention of this list is to provide mutual support for everything to do with choosing, installing, using, developing and maintaining the Eclipse IDE, tools, rich client applications on the &os; platform and assisting with the porting of Eclipse IDE and plugins to the &os; environment. The intention is also to facilitate exchange of information between the Eclipse community and the &os; community to the mutual benefit of both. Although this list is focused primarily on the needs of Eclipse users it will also provide a forum for those who would like to develop &os; specific applications using the Eclipse framework. &a.embedded.name; Using FreeBSD in embedded applications This list discusses topics related to using FreeBSD in embedded systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. For the purpose of this list we define embedded systems as those computing devices which are not desktops and which usually serve a single purpose as opposed to being general computing environments. Examples include, but are not limited to, all kinds of phone handsets, network equipment such as routers, switches and PBXs, remote measuring equipment, PDAs, Point Of Sale systems, and so on. &a.emulation.name; Emulation of other systems such as Linux/&ms-dos;/&windows; This is a forum for technical discussions related to running programs written for other operating systems on &os;. &a.firewire.name; &firewire; (iLink, IEEE 1394) This is a mailing list for discussion of the design and implementation of a &firewire; (aka IEEE 1394 aka iLink) subsystem for FreeBSD. Relevant topics specifically include the standards, bus devices and their protocols, adapter boards/cards/chips sets, and the architecture and implementation of code for their proper support. &a.fs.name; File systems Discussions concerning FreeBSD file systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.geom.name; GEOM Discussions specific to GEOM and related implementations. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.gnome.name; GNOME Discussions concerning The GNOME Desktop Environment for FreeBSD systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.ipfw.name; IP Firewall This is the forum for technical discussions concerning the redesign of the IP firewall code in FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.ia64.name; Porting FreeBSD to IA64 This is a technical mailing list for individuals actively working on porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 platform from &intel;, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome. &a.isdn.name; ISDN Communications This is the mailing list for people discussing the development of ISDN support for FreeBSD. &a.java.name; &java; Development This is the mailing list for people discussing the development of significant &java; applications for FreeBSD and the porting and maintenance of &jdk;s. &a.jobs.name; Jobs offered and sought This is a forum for posting employment notices and resumes specifically related to &os;, e.g. if you are seeking &os;-related employment or have a job involving &os; to advertise then this is the right place. This is not a mailing list for general employment issues since adequate forums for that already exist elsewhere. Note that this list, like other FreeBSD.org mailing lists, is distributed worldwide. Thus, you need to be clear about location and the extent to which telecommuting or assistance with relocation is available. Email should use open formats only — preferably plain text, but basic Portable Document Format (PDF), HTML, and a few others are acceptable to many readers. Closed formats such as µsoft; Word (.doc) will be rejected by the mailing list server. &a.kde.name; KDE Discussions concerning KDE on FreeBSD systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.hackers.name; Technical discussions This is a forum for technical discussions related to FreeBSD. This is the primary technical mailing list. It is for individuals actively working on FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.hardware.name; General discussion of FreeBSD hardware General discussion about the types of hardware that FreeBSD runs on, various problems and suggestions concerning what to buy or avoid. &a.hubs.name; Mirror sites Announcements and discussion for people who run FreeBSD mirror sites. &a.isp.name; Issues for Internet Service Providers This mailing list is for discussing topics relevant to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) using FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.openoffice.name; OpenOffice.org Discussions concerning the porting and maintenance of OpenOffice.org and &staroffice;. &a.performance.name; Discussions about tuning or speeding up FreeBSD This mailing list exists to provide a place for hackers, administrators, and/or concerned parties to discuss performance related topics pertaining to FreeBSD. Acceptable topics includes talking about FreeBSD installations that are either under high load, are experiencing performance problems, or are pushing the limits of FreeBSD. Concerned parties that are willing to work toward improving the performance of FreeBSD are highly encouraged to subscribe to this list. This is a highly technical list ideally suited for experienced FreeBSD users, hackers, or administrators interested in keeping FreeBSD fast, robust, and scalable. This list is not a question-and-answer list that replaces reading through documentation, but it is a place to make contributions or inquire about unanswered performance related topics. &a.pf.name; Discussion and questions about the packet filter firewall system Discussion concerning the packet filter (pf) firewall system in terms of FreeBSD. Technical discussion and user questions are both welcome. This list is also a place to discuss the ALTQ QoS framework. &a.platforms.name; Porting to Non &intel; platforms Cross-platform FreeBSD issues, general discussion and proposals for non &intel; FreeBSD ports. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.policy.name; Core team policy decisions This is a low volume, read-only mailing list for FreeBSD Core Team Policy decisions. &a.ports.name; Discussion of ports Discussions concerning FreeBSD's ports collection (/usr/ports), ports infrastructure, and general ports coordination efforts. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.ports-bugs.name; Discussion of ports bugs Discussions concerning problem reports for FreeBSD's ports collection (/usr/ports), proposed ports, or modifications to ports. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.proliant.name; Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms This mailing list is to be used for the technical discussion of the usage of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant servers, including the discussion of ProLiant-specific drivers, management software, configuration tools, and BIOS updates. As such, this is the primary place to discuss the hpasmd, hpasmcli, and hpacucli modules. &a.python.name; Python on FreeBSD This is a list for discussions related to improving Python-support on FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list. It is for individuals working on porting Python, its 3rd party modules and Zope stuff to FreeBSD. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome. &a.questions.name; User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send how to questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. &a.scsi.name; SCSI subsystem This is the mailing list for people working on the SCSI subsystem for FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.security.name; Security issues FreeBSD computer security issues (DES, Kerberos, known security holes and fixes, etc). This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical discussion is expected. Note that this is not a question-and-answer list, but that contributions (BOTH question AND answer) to the FAQ are welcome. &a.security-notifications.name; Security Notifications Notifications of FreeBSD security problems and fixes. This is not a discussion list. The discussion list is FreeBSD-security. &a.small.name; Using FreeBSD in embedded applications This list discusses topics related to unusually small and embedded FreeBSD installations. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. This list has been obsoleted by &a.embedded.name;. &a.stable.name; Discussions about the use of &os.stable; This is the mailing list for users of &os.stable;. It includes warnings about new features coming out in -STABLE that will affect the users, and instructions on steps that must be taken to remain -STABLE. Anyone running STABLE should subscribe to this list. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected. &a.standards.name; C99 & POSIX Conformance This is a forum for technical discussions related to FreeBSD Conformance to the C99 and the POSIX standards. &a.usb.name; Discussing &os; support for USB This is a mailing list for technical discussions related to &os; support for USB. &a.usergroups.name; User Group Coordination List This is the mailing list for the coordinators from each of the local area Users Groups to discuss matters with each other and a designated individual from the Core Team. This mail list should be limited to meeting synopsis and coordination of projects that span User Groups. &a.vendors.name; Vendors Coordination discussions between The FreeBSD Project and Vendors of software and hardware for FreeBSD. Filtering on the Mailing Lists The &os; mailing lists are filtered in multiple ways to avoid the distribution of spam, viruses, and other unwanted emails. The filtering actions described in this section do not include all those used to protect the mailing lists. Only certain types of attachments are allowed on the mailing lists. All attachments with a MIME content type not found in the list below will be stripped before an email is distributed on the mailing lists. application/octet-stream application/pdf application/pgp-signature application/x-pkcs7-signature message/rfc822 multipart/alternative multipart/related multipart/signed text/html text/plain text/x-diff text/x-patch Some of the mailing lists might allow attachments of other MIME content types, but the above list should be applicable for most of the mailing lists. If an email contains both an HTML and a plain text version, the HTML version will be removed. If an email contains only an HTML version, it will be converted to plain text. Usenet Newsgroups In addition to two FreeBSD specific newsgroups, there are many others in which FreeBSD is discussed or are otherwise relevant to FreeBSD users. Keyword searchable archives are available for some of these newsgroups from courtesy of Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au. BSD Specific Newsgroups comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc de.comp.os.unix.bsd (German) fr.comp.os.bsd (French) it.comp.os.freebsd (Italian) tw.bbs.comp.386bsd (Traditional Chinese) Other &unix; Newsgroups of Interest comp.unix comp.unix.questions comp.unix.admin comp.unix.programmer comp.unix.shell comp.unix.user-friendly comp.security.unix comp.sources.unix comp.unix.advocacy comp.unix.misc comp.bugs.4bsd comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes comp.unix.bsd X Window System comp.windows.x.i386unix comp.windows.x comp.windows.x.apps comp.windows.x.announce comp.windows.x.intrinsics comp.windows.x.motif comp.windows.x.pex comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine World Wide Web Servers &chap.eresources.www.inc; Email Addresses The following user groups provide FreeBSD related email addresses for their members. The listed administrator reserves the right to revoke the address if it is abused in any way. Domain Facilities User Group Administrator ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org Forwarding only freebsd-users@uk.FreeBSD.org Lee Johnston lee@uk.FreeBSD.org Shell Accounts The following user groups provide shell accounts for people who are actively supporting the FreeBSD project. The listed administrator reserves the right to cancel the account if it is abused in any way. Host Access Facilities Administrator dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Telnet/FTP/SSH Email, Web space, Anonymous FTP Lee Johnston lee@uk.FreeBSD.org