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The power, flexibility and reliability of FreeBSD attracts users and commercial vendors alike. In addition to the gallery which showcases users of FreeBSD, we provide this listing of vendors offering software and hardware and consulting services for FreeBSD. If you know of other companies supporting FreeBSD that should be added to this page, please notify us.

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Software

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Software

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Hardware and complete systems

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Hardware and complete systems

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Consulting services

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Consulting services

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Documentation and miscellaneous accessories

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The FreeBSD Handbook

This is an evolving, comprehensive on-line resource for FreeBSD users. Please address comments and contributions to <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>.

&i.new; We now offer a Japanese translation of the handbook (EUC encoding).

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

If you have a question, chances are that someone else has the same question. The most common of these have been compiled here in a brief question-answer format.

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Tutorials

Here lie assorted documents about FreeBSD and FreeBSD related software and hardware.

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Books

Online documentation is useful, but any serious FreeBSD user should consider getting some of the books listed here. Most books that cover BSD systems apply well to FreeBSD.

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Manual Pages

The manual pages for FreeBSD 2.0 and XFree86 release 3.1, courtesy of Hinrich Eilts.

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The Source Code

If you like digging your fingers into source code, here is a hypertext version of the FreeBSD kernel source. This is brought to you courtesy of Warren Toomey.

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The FreeBSD Documentation Project

Like FreeBSD itself, this documentation is the product of a volunteer effort. The goals of the project are outlined here, as are the procedures for submitting corrections and new material.

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All over the world, FreeBSD is powering innovative Internet applications and services. This gallery is a showcase of organizations and individuals who have put FreeBSD to work for them. Browse and find out more about what FreeBSD can do for you!

To have your site added to this list, simply fill out this form.

The "Powered by FreeBSD" logos above may be downloaded and displayed on personal or commercial home pages served by FreeBSD machines. Use of this logo or the likeness of the BSD Daemons for profitable gain requires the consent of Brian Tao (creator of the "power" logo) and Marshall Kirk McKusick's (trademark holder for the BSD Daemon image). +

Commercial organizations

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Non-profit organizations

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Personal sites

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Mailing lists

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

Several non-English mailing are also available:

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

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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. +

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Most countries also now have subdomains set up under freebsd.org to make such local resources easier to find - when in doubt, try connecting to www.yourcountry.freebsd.org (e.g. www.de.freebsd.org for Germany or www.au.freebsd.org for Australia). The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

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, please use either the sup or CTM tools or simply FTP it.

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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.

  • BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD User Group) (contact info?)

  • BUG/HH (BSD user group Hamburg) meets on the last Tuesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotus Bluete, Loewenstrasse 22 in Hamburg Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome. Interested people should send mail to bsdhh@elbe.desy.de.
    FAQ File (in German)

  • The Brainstorm users group meets in Wuerzburg, Germany and welcomes all users of Unix, with some emphasis on helping new users of FreeBSD. They meet every Monday at 8.00pm in the "Cafe Klug", Muenzstrasse, Wuerzburg. Mail bs@rak.franken.de for more information or follow the Brainstorm link.

  • FUUNM (Free Unix Users of New Mexico) meets on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 4:30-6:00pm at the Farris Engineering Center, room 141, University of new Mexico. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but if you are in the area, your presence is welcome. The group operates a mailing list (fuunm@astro.phys.unm.edu). Contact Alan Lundin for more information.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Washington DC (contact info?)

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General UNIX Information

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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. More information is available from the WINE FAQ.
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Hardware

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Multimedia

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Related Operating System Projects

  • NetBSD is a very close relative of FreeBSD.
  • OpenBSD is derived from NetBSD and supported by a group of former NetBSD developers.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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Installing FreeBSD

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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!

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Distribution Sites

The official sources for FreeBSD are:

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. +

Applications and Utility Software

The Packages collection

The FreeBSD packages are 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 instead of compiled binaries, the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided. 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 Porting applications and Contributing to FreeBSD 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.

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The power, flexibility and reliability of FreeBSD attracts users and commercial vendors alike. In addition to the gallery which showcases users of FreeBSD, we provide this listing of vendors offering software and hardware and consulting services for FreeBSD. If you know of other companies supporting FreeBSD that should be added to this page, please notify us.

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Software

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Software

  • AstroArch Consulting, Inc. develops and licenses its ISP Billing and Tracking System or BATS for FreeBSD as well as thirteen other Operating Systems. For more information, check out the web pages http://www.tpoint.net/astroarch, send email to elh@astroarch.com or call (512) 990-1064.

  • Communication Systems Research Corp. - Business applications and consulting for Unix systems including BSD. Specializing in analysis and development of high performance solutions for networking problems. Located in Portland Oregon, consulting internationally for over 12 years. Telephone: 503 224-4789 (Colorado 970-927-0336)

  • BRU from Enhanced Software Technologies is a very powerful and reliable tape backup system. It offers per-file compression, an improved tape format with three different kinds of verification, and many safety checks to insure data integrity. The "BSD/OS 1.1" version works well with FreeBSD.

  • Conetic Software is offering a FREE copy of C/BASE 4GL for the FreeBSD 2.0.5 operating system. C/BASE 4GL features a powerful application development tool and database engine. Featuring a easy to user visual development environment, a scripting language, and application libraries with a C language (API) interface. The best thing about C/BASE 4GL is that it is fully portable across hardware and operating system platforms. FreeBSD to DOS, DOS to SOLARIS, SOLARIS to AIX, etc.... Your free copy of C/BASE 4GL is set to run for a maximum of 2 concurrent users and 1,000 records. Please contact us at info@conetic.com if you would like a taste of even more power and programming fun.

  • Inlab Software GmbH offers binaries of Inlab-Scheme for FreeBSD and Linux which are free for personal or educational use. Inlab-Scheme is a R4RS compliant Scheme which is capable of reading and writing TIFF and XBM-bitmaps to and from a special internal bitmap type. With built-in primitives for image processing, Inlab-Scheme can be a general tool for tasks like optical character recognition and general analysis and processing of bitmap data.

  • NetCon Corporation established in 1985, with over 10,000 installed servers, is the leading supplier of NetWare compatible operating systems and Internet Gateways for standard UNIX platforms. NetCon offers a complete line of systems for FreeBSD, SUN Solaris, SCO UNIX/ODT and IBM AIX RS6000 serving from 5 to 1000 users. Services include; Full Internet access from NetWare/WIN95/Windows workstations over IPX/SPX, X Windows over IPX/SPX, NetWare file and print services, NetWare Client services for UNIX, High-performance, DOS/Windows Terminal Emulation.

  • Perforce Software produces PERFORCE -- the FAST Software Configuration Management System for many UNIX platforms and NT. More capable than freeware tools, more applicable than solutions from academia, and more usable than available commercial products, PERFORCE manages software projects comprising thousands of source files shared by dozens of engineers across many heterogeneous platforms and geographically distributed locations. Documentation and fully functional versions (but limited to two client workspaces) can be downloaded from the Web pages. For non-commercial users on FreeBSD, we offer servers with unlimited client workspaces for $1. Perforce Software can be reached at info@perforce.com or 1 (510) 865-8720.

  • Progressive Networks, Inc. offers both its RealAudio player and server for FreeBSD. The free player allows you to play live and on-demand audio over 14.4Kps and faster connections. All you have to do is click on a RealAudio link from your Web browser and audio begins playing instantly. Check out The RealAudio Guide to access hundreds of sites offering music, news, live radio stations, live events etc. The server allows your web site to deliver live and on-demand audio over the Internet or your company network.

  • RTD provides an ISP billing package for ISPs using FreeBSD called UTA

  • Coolworld.Com, Inc. provides a billing package for ISP's called Internet Billing. This package was designed to handle all the billing needs for Internet service providers. It runs under MS-Windows. One piece of the software is a client/server set with a daemon that runs on a UNIX server (including FreeBSD) that allows the client to do all for their user management under a windows front end.

  • X Inside, Inc. offers commercial grade graphical software enhancements for FreeBSD. AcceleratedX Server completely supports over 400 different graphics adapters from over 40 vendors, including many partially supported or not included with XFree86. Download a free demonstration from ftp.xinside.com. Also utilize the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) with AcceleratedX CDE, Motif v2.0 runtine + development environment with AcceleratedX Motif, and 3D graphics with AcceleratedX OpenGL. For more information email sales@xinside.com or call +1.303.298.7478.

  • XVScan allows you to use your HP ScanJet scanner under FreeBSD. It is a commercial product based on John Bradley's xv.

  • Zeus Technology Limited offer Zeus Server for FreeBSD. Zeus Server is an advanced, powerful full-featured commercial grade web server designed with exceptional performance, minimal machine resource requirements and ease of administration in mind. Free evaluation copies may be downloaded.

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Hardware and complete systems

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Hardware and complete systems

  • Apache Digital Corporation creates custom high-performance PC based systems optimized for the FreeBSD operating system. We have many standard systems to choose from as well as an on-line custom system design form to help you create your custom dream system. Please feel free to contact info@apache.com for more information.

  • Atípa Computers is a distributor of professional quality computer hardware. We sell only brand-new, 100% IBM-PC compatible products, all with full warranty and free technical support. We specialize in multi-OS and networking OS (Linux, FreeBSD) PC-based Systems. For more information, contact info@atipa.com.

  • Cyclades Corporation sells a variety of high performance, multiport serial cards which FreeBSD supports in its standard releases (due largely to their generous cooperation in providing us with hardware and technical assistance).

  • Emerging Technologies, Inc. has high speed serial communications adapters allowing FreeBSD systems to utilize leased lines at speeds from 56k to T1. The adapters include a complete set of drivers and utilities that allow a FreeBSD machine to communicate directly with virtually any IP router via synchronous PPP, Frame Relay or X.25, and directly to CISCO brand routers with CISCO serial encapsulation. Full documentation and support are included. Several hardware choices are available ranging from an economical single port adapter card to a dual T1 line model with dual 25mhz dedicated processors. To contact Emerging Technologies, send E-mail to info@etinc.com.

  • The Init Organization specializes in Intranet networking servers running FreeBSD. We can custom design and construct high performance servers to fill any need. The Init Organization also provides network support and management, IS support and training, corporate-wide e-mail gateways, domain name registration and hosting, world wide web site development, and more. Please send e-mail to info@init.org, or visit http://www.tioga.com/~Init/.

  • MOXA makes economically priced multi-port serial cards which are compatible with FreeBSD's sio serial driver. The C104 / C168 family of 2/4/8 serial port cards feature custom ASIC design, speeds up to 921.6Kbps, surge protection, independent and software configurable I/O ports and IRQs.

  • Stallion Technologies Inc offers a range of multiport serial boards for the ISA, EISA, MCA and PCI buses. Although Stallion does not officially support drivers for FreeBSD, there is an unsupported, freely available driver available from their FTP site. This driver supports the Stallion EasyIO and EasyConnection 8/32 multiport boards. For local pricing and availability information, contact Stallion via their WWW page.

  • SW Technology offers quality Pentium machines with FreeBSD pre-installed.

  • Telenet System Solutions, Inc is a High Performance Internet Server integration house, also reselling products from vendors like Cisco, Livingston, SDL Comm, Digi, Cyclades, etc. We have a series of systems with pre-configured configurations to support a wide range of applications, or you can use our custom system design form to specify a system to your own choice of configuration, preloaded with the OS's of your choice. Please visit our web page for more information or send us an email at freebsd@tesys.com

  • Zyzzyva Enterprises presents the Z-Router as an affordable alternative for businesses and organizations seeking cost-effective router and web server solutions that provide ease-of-maintenance and flexibility to meet changing connection demands. Our industrial quality systems run on the FreeBSD operating system. The Z-Router provides a secure web interface to system maintenance through a convenient online configuration management tool.
    Email: info@zyzzyva.com. Voice: 402.438.1848. FAX: 402.438.1869.

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Consulting services

  • Peter Dufault, of HD Associates. 15+ years experience in medical device control, high performance simulation systems, digital closed-loop feedback systems, realtime UNIX-like systems, and UNIX device drivers. Please send email to dufault@hda.com

  • Poul-Henning Kamp, 12+ years in UNIX, FreeBSD Core team member. Non-specializing specialist, works on anything below user-interfaces. Rates available on request. Please send email to phk@FreeBSD.org

  • Greg Lehey, 20+ years industry experience in all system programming and systems administration disciplines, including device drivers, kernel debugging, compilers, libraries, performance analysis, and site planning. Author of Porting UNIX Software, Installing and Running FreeBSD, and The Complete FreeBSD. Please send email to grog@FreeBSD.org

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Documentation and miscellaneous accessories

  • The Bookpool offers 30% discounts on the new edition of The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, a must-have for any FreeBSD bookshelf.
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The FreeBSD Handbook

This is an evolving, comprehensive on-line resource for FreeBSD users. Please address comments and contributions to <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG>.

&i.new; We now offer a Japanese translation of the handbook (EUC encoding).

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

If you have a question, chances are that someone else has the same question. The most common of these have been compiled here in a brief question-answer format.

+

Tutorials

Here lie assorted documents about FreeBSD and FreeBSD related software and hardware.

+

Books

Online documentation is useful, but any serious FreeBSD user should consider getting some of the books listed here. Most books that cover BSD systems apply well to FreeBSD.

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Manual Pages

The manual pages for FreeBSD 2.0 and XFree86 release 3.1, courtesy of Hinrich Eilts.

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The Source Code

If you like digging your fingers into source code, here is a hypertext version of the FreeBSD kernel source. This is brought to you courtesy of Warren Toomey.

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The FreeBSD Documentation Project

Like FreeBSD itself, this documentation is the product of a volunteer effort. The goals of the project are outlined here, as are the procedures for submitting corrections and new material.

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All over the world, FreeBSD is powering innovative Internet applications and services. This gallery is a showcase of organizations and individuals who have put FreeBSD to work for them. Browse and find out more about what FreeBSD can do for you!

To have your site added to this list, simply fill out this form.

The "Powered by FreeBSD" logos above may be downloaded and displayed on personal or commercial home pages served by FreeBSD machines. Use of this logo or the likeness of the BSD Daemons for profitable gain requires the consent of Brian Tao (creator of the "power" logo) and Marshall Kirk McKusick's (trademark holder for the BSD Daemon image). +

Commercial organizations

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Non-profit organizations

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Personal sites

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Mailing lists

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

Several non-English mailing are also available:

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

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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. +

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Most countries also now have subdomains set up under freebsd.org to make such local resources easier to find - when in doubt, try connecting to www.yourcountry.freebsd.org (e.g. www.de.freebsd.org for Germany or www.au.freebsd.org for Australia). The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

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, please use either the sup or CTM tools or simply FTP it.

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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.

  • BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD User Group) (contact info?)

  • BUG/HH (BSD user group Hamburg) meets on the last Tuesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotus Bluete, Loewenstrasse 22 in Hamburg Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome. Interested people should send mail to bsdhh@elbe.desy.de.
    FAQ File (in German)

  • The Brainstorm users group meets in Wuerzburg, Germany and welcomes all users of Unix, with some emphasis on helping new users of FreeBSD. They meet every Monday at 8.00pm in the "Cafe Klug", Muenzstrasse, Wuerzburg. Mail bs@rak.franken.de for more information or follow the Brainstorm link.

  • FUUNM (Free Unix Users of New Mexico) meets on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 4:30-6:00pm at the Farris Engineering Center, room 141, University of new Mexico. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but if you are in the area, your presence is welcome. The group operates a mailing list (fuunm@astro.phys.unm.edu). Contact Alan Lundin for more information.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Washington DC (contact info?)

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General UNIX Information

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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. More information is available from the WINE FAQ.
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Hardware

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Multimedia

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Related Operating System Projects

  • NetBSD is a very close relative of FreeBSD.
  • OpenBSD is derived from NetBSD and supported by a group of former NetBSD developers.
  • 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.
  • The GNU HURD project is another effort to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
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Mailing lists

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

Several non-English mailing are also available:

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

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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. +

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Most countries also now have subdomains set up under freebsd.org to make such local resources easier to find - when in doubt, try connecting to www.yourcountry.freebsd.org (e.g. www.de.freebsd.org for Germany or www.au.freebsd.org for Australia). The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

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, please use either the sup or CTM tools or simply FTP it.

+

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.

  • BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD User Group) (contact info?)

  • BUG/HH (BSD user group Hamburg) meets on the last Tuesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotus Bluete, Loewenstrasse 22 in Hamburg Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome. Interested people should send mail to bsdhh@elbe.desy.de.
    FAQ File (in German)

  • The Brainstorm users group meets in Wuerzburg, Germany and welcomes all users of Unix, with some emphasis on helping new users of FreeBSD. They meet every Monday at 8.00pm in the "Cafe Klug", Muenzstrasse, Wuerzburg. Mail bs@rak.franken.de for more information or follow the Brainstorm link.

  • FUUNM (Free Unix Users of New Mexico) meets on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 4:30-6:00pm at the Farris Engineering Center, room 141, University of new Mexico. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but if you are in the area, your presence is welcome. The group operates a mailing list (fuunm@astro.phys.unm.edu). Contact Alan Lundin for more information.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Washington DC (contact info?)

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General UNIX Information

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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. More information is available from the WINE FAQ.
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Hardware

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Multimedia

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Related Operating System Projects

  • NetBSD is a very close relative of FreeBSD.
  • OpenBSD is derived from NetBSD and supported by a group of former NetBSD developers.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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Installing FreeBSD

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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!

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Distribution Sites

The official sources for FreeBSD are:

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. +

Applications and Utility Software

The Packages collection

The FreeBSD packages are 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 instead of compiled binaries, the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided. 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 Porting applications and Contributing to FreeBSD 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.

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