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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.
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
freebsd-advocacy
FreeBSD Evangelism
freebsd-announce
Important events and project milestones
freebsd-arch
Architecture and design discussions
freebsd-bugs
Bug reports
freebsd-chat
Non-technical items related to the FreeBSD
community
freebsd-commit
Changes made to the FreeBSD source tree
freebsd-config
Development of FreeBSD installation and configuration tools
freebsd-current
Discussion concerning the use of
FreeBSD-current
freebsd-isp
Issues for Internet Service Providers using
FreeBSD
freebsd-jobs
FreeBSD employment and consulting
opportunities
freebsd-newbies
New FreeBSD users activities and discussions
freebsd-policy
FreeBSD Core team policy decisions. Low volume, and
read-only
freebsd-questions
User questions and technical support
freebsd-stable
Discussion concerning the use of
FreeBSD-stable
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
freebsd-afs
Porting AFS to FreeBSD
freebsd-alpha
Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha
freebsd-atm
Using ATM networking with FreeBSD
freebsd-database
Discussing database use and development under
FreeBSD
freebsd-doc
Creating FreeBSD related documents
freebsd-emulation
Emulation of other systems such as
Linux/DOS/Windows
freebsd-fs
Filesystems
freebsd-hackers
General technical discussion
freebsd-hardware
General discussion of hardware for running
FreeBSD
freebsd-i18n
FreeBSD Internationalization
freebsd-ia64
Porting FreeBSD to Intel's upcoming IA64 systems
freebsd-ipfw
Technical discussion concerning the redesign of the IP
firewall code
freebsd-isdn
ISDN developers
freebsd-java
Java developers and people porting JDKs to
FreeBSD
freebsd-libh
The second generation installation and package
system
freebsd-mobile
Discussions about mobile computing
freebsd-mozilla
Porting mozilla to FreeBSD
freebsd-multimedia
Multimedia applications
freebsd-new-bus
Technical discussions about bus architecture
freebsd-net
Networking discussion and TCP/IP source code
freebsd-platforms
Concerning ports to non-Intel architecture
platforms
freebsd-ports
Discussion of the ports collection
freebsd-ppc
Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC
freebsd-realtime
Development of realtime extensions to FreeBSD
freebsd-scsi
The SCSI subsystem
freebsd-security
Security issues
freebsd-security-notifications
Security notifications
freebsd-small
Using FreeBSD in embedded applications
freebsd-smp
Design discussions for [A]Symmetric
MultiProcessing
freebsd-sparc
Porting FreeBSD to Sparc systems
freebsd-tokenring
Support Token Ring in 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'll understand the communications etiquette involved.
List
Purpose
freebsd-core
FreeBSD core team
freebsd-hubs
People running mirror sites (infrastructural
support)
freebsd-install
Installation development
freebsd-user-groups
User group coordination
freebsd-www
Maintainers of www.freebsd.org
Digest lists: Many of the above lists are
- also available as digests. All new messages posted to the list are sent
- out as a single e-mail each day. The lists available in digest form are:
+ also available as digests. New messages posted to the list are
+ collected and sent out as a single e-mail when the sizes goes
+ over 100KB. The lists available in digest form are:
List
freebsd-afs-digest
freebsd-alpha-digest
freebsd-chat-digest
freebsd-current-digest
freebsd-cvs-all-digest
freebsd-database-digest
freebsd-hackers-digest
freebsd-ia64-digest
freebsd-isdn-digest
freebsd-java-digest
freebsd-questions-digest
freebsd-security-digest
freebsd-sparc-digest
freebsd-stable-digest
freebsd-test-digest
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)
cvs-all
/usr/src
All changes to the tree (superset)
How to Subscribe
All mailing lists live on FreeBSD.org, so to post to a given list you
simply mail to
<listname@FreeBSD.org>. It will then
be redistributed to mailing list members world-wide.
To subscribe to a list, send mail to &a.majordomo; and include
subscribe <listname> [<optional address>]
in the body of your message. For example, to subscribe yourself to
freebsd-announce, you'd do:
&prompt.user; mail majordomo@FreeBSD.org
subscribe freebsd-announce
^D
If you want to subscribe yourself under a different name, or
submit a subscription request for a local mailing list (this is more
efficient if you have several interested parties at one site, and
highly appreciated by us!), you would do something like:
&prompt.user; mail majordomo@FreeBSD.org
subscribe freebsd-announce local-announce@somesite.com
^D
Finally, it is also possible to unsubscribe yourself from a list,
get a list of other list members or see the list of mailing lists
again by sending other types of control messages to majordomo. For a
complete list of available commands, do this:
&prompt.user; mail majordomo@FreeBSD.org
help
^D
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 freebsd-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 freebsd-chat
freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org mailing list 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:
FREEBSD-AFS
Andrew File System
This list is for discussion on porting and using AFS from
CMU/Transarc
FREEBSD-ANNOUNCE
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.
FREEBSD-ARCH
Architecture and design
discussions
This is a moderated list for discussion of FreeBSD
architecture. Messages will mostly be kept technical in nature,
with (rare) exceptions for other messages the moderator deems
need to reach all the subscribers of the list. Examples of
suitable topics;
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 ame drivers cleanly on many buses and
architectures?
How do I write a network driver?
The moderator reserves the right to do minor editing
(spell-checking, grammar correction, trimming) of messages that
are posted to the list. The volume of the list will be kept
low, which may involve having to delay topics until an active
discussion has been resolved.
FREEBSD-BUGS
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.
FREEBSD-CHAT
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.
FREEBSD-CORE
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.
FREEBSD-CURRENT
Discussions about the use of
FreeBSD-current
This is the mailing list for users of freebsd-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.
FREEBSD-CURRENT-DIGEST
Discussions about the use of
FreeBSD-current
This is the digest version of the freebsd-current mailing
list. The digest consists of all messages sent to
freebsd-current bundled together and mailed out as a single
- message. The average digest size is about 40kB. This list is
- Read-Only and should not be posted
- to.
+ message. This list is Read-Only and
+ should not be posted to.
FREEBSD-DOC
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!
FREEBSD-FS
Filesystems
Discussions concerning FreeBSD filesystems. This is a
technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is
expected.
FREEBSD-IPFW
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.
FREEBSD-IA64
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.
FREEBSD-ISDN
ISDN Communications
This is the mailing list for people discussing the
development of ISDN support for FreeBSD.
FREEBSD-JAVA
Java Development
This is the mailing list for people discussing the
development of significant Java applications for FreeBSD and the
porting and maintenance of JDKs.
FREEBSD-HACKERS
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.
FREEBSD-HACKERS-DIGEST
Technical discussions
This is the digest version of the freebsd-hackers mailing
list. The digest consists of all messages sent to
freebsd-hackers bundled together and mailed out as a single
- message. The average digest size is about 40kB. This list is
- Read-Only and should not be posted
- to.
+ message. This list is Read-Only
+ and should not be posted to.
FREEBSD-HARDWARE
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.
FREEBSD-HUBS
Mirror sites
Announcements and discussion for people who run FreeBSD
mirror sites.
FREEBSD-INSTALL
Installation discussion
This mailing list is for discussing FreeBSD installation
development for the future releases.
FREEBSD-ISP
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.
FREEBSD-NEWBIES
Newbies activities discussion
We cover any of the activities of newbies that are not
already dealt with elsewhere, including: independent learning
and problem solving techniques, finding and using resources and
asking for help elsewhere, how to use mailing lists and which
lists to use, general chat, making mistakes, boasting, sharing
ideas, stories, moral (but not technical) support, and taking an
active part in the FreeBSD community. We take our problems and
support questions to freebsd-questions, and use freebsd-newbies
to meet others who are doing the same things that we do as
newbies.
FREEBSD-PLATFORMS
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.
FREEBSD-POLICY
Core team policy decisions
This is a low volume, read-only mailing list for FreeBSD
Core Team Policy decisions.
FREEBSD-PORTS
Discussion of
ports
Discussions concerning FreeBSD's ports
collection
(/usr/ports), proposed
ports, modifications to ports collection infrastructure and
general coordination efforts. This is a technical mailing list
for which strictly technical content is expected.
FREEBSD-QUESTIONS
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.
FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-DIGEST
User questions
This is the digest version of the freebsd-questions mailing
list. The digest consists of all messages sent to
freebsd-questions bundled together and mailed out as a single
- message. The average digest size is about 40kB.
+ message.
FREEBSD-SCSI
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.
FREEBSD-SECURITY
Security issues
FreeBSD computer security issues (DES, Kerberos, known
security holes and fixes, etc). This is a technical mailing
list for which strictly technical content is expected.
FREEBSD-SECURITY-NOTIFICATIONS
Security Notifications
Notifications of FreeBSD security problems and fixes. This is
not a discussion list. The discussion list is
FreeBSD-security.
FREEBSD-SMALL
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.
FREEBSD-STABLE
Discussions about the use of
FreeBSD-stable
This is the mailing list for users of freebsd-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.
FREEBSD-USER-GROUPS
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.
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
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
http://www.FreeBSD.org/
— Central Server.
http://www.au.FreeBSD.org/ — Australia/1.
http://www2.au.FreeBSD.org/ — Australia/2.
http://www3.au.FreeBSD.org/ — Australia/3.
http://freebsd.itworks.com.au/ — Australia/4.
http://www.br.FreeBSD.org/www.freebsd.org/ — Brazil/1.
http://www2.br.FreeBSD.org/www.freebsd.org/ — Brazil/2.
http://www3.br.FreeBSD.org/ — Brazil/3.
http://www.bg.FreeBSD.org/ — Bulgaria.
http://www.ca.FreeBSD.org/ — Canada/1.
http://www2.ca.FreeBSD.org/ — Canada/2.
http://www3.ca.FreeBSD.org/ — Canada/3.
http://www.cn.FreeBSD.org/ — China.
http://www.cz.FreeBSD.org/ — Czech Republic/1.
http://www2.cz.FreeBSD.org/ — Czech Republic/2.
http://www.dk.FreeBSD.org/ — Denmark.
http://www.ee.FreeBSD.org/ — Estonia.
http://www.fi.FreeBSD.org/ — Finland.
http://www.fr.FreeBSD.org/ — France.
http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/ — Germany/1.
http://www1.de.FreeBSD.org/ — Germany/2.
http://www2.de.FreeBSD.org/ — Germany/3.
http://www.gr.FreeBSD.org/ — Greece.
http://www.hu.FreeBSD.org/ — Hungary.
http://www.is.FreeBSD.org/ — Iceland.
http://www.ie.FreeBSD.org/ — Ireland.
http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/www.FreeBSD.org/ — Japan.
http://www.kr.FreeBSD.org/ — Korea/1.
http://www2.kr.FreeBSD.org/ — Korea/2.
http://www.lv.FreeBSD.org/ — Latvia.
http://rama.asiapac.net/freebsd/ — Malaysia.
http://www.nl.FreeBSD.org/ — Netherlands/1.
http://www2.nl.FreeBSD.org/ — Netherlands/2.
http://www.no.FreeBSD.org/ — Norway.
http://www.nz.FreeBSD.org/ — New Zealand.
http://www.pl.FreeBSD.org/ — Poland/1.
http://www2.pl.FreeBSD.org/ — Poland/2.
http://www.pt.FreeBSD.org/ — Portugal/1.
http://www2.pt.FreeBSD.org/ — Portugal/2.
http://www3.pt.FreeBSD.org/ — Portugal/3.
http://www.ro.FreeBSD.org/ — Romania.
http://www.ru.FreeBSD.org/ — Russia/1.
http://www2.ru.FreeBSD.org/ — Russia/2.
http://www3.ru.FreeBSD.org/ — Russia/3.
http://www4.ru.FreeBSD.org/ — Russia/4.
http://freebsd.s1web.com/ — Singapore.
http://www.sk.FreeBSD.org/ — Slovak Republic.
http://www.si.FreeBSD.org/ — Slovenia.
http://www.es.FreeBSD.org/ — Spain.
http://www.za.FreeBSD.org/ — South Africa/1.
http://www2.za.FreeBSD.org/ — South Africa/2.
http://www.se.FreeBSD.org/ — Sweden.
http://www.ch.FreeBSD.org/ — Switzerland.
http://www.tw.FreeBSD.org/www.freebsd.org/data/ — Taiwan.
http://www.tr.FreeBSD.org/ — Turkey.
http://www.ua.FreeBSD.org/www.freebsd.org/ — Ukraine/1.
http://www2.ua.FreeBSD.org/ — Ukraine/2.
http://www4.ua.FreeBSD.org/ — Ukraine/Crimea.
http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ — United Kingdom/1.
http://www2.uk.FreeBSD.org/ — United Kingdom/2.
http://www3.uk.FreeBSD.org/ — United Kingdom/3.
http://www6.FreeBSD.org/ — USA/Oregon.
http://www2.FreeBSD.org/ — USA/Texas.
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
storm.uk.FreeBSD.org
SSH only
Read-only cvs, personal web space, email
&a.brian
dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
Telnet/FTP/SSH
E-Mail, Web space, Anonymous FTP
Lee Johnston
lee@uk.FreeBSD.org
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--- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/eresources/chapter.sgml
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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.
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
freebsd-advocacy
FreeBSD Evangelism
freebsd-announce
Important events and project milestones
freebsd-arch
Architecture and design discussions
freebsd-bugs
Bug reports
freebsd-chat
Non-technical items related to the FreeBSD
community
freebsd-commit
Changes made to the FreeBSD source tree
freebsd-config
Development of FreeBSD installation and configuration tools
freebsd-current
Discussion concerning the use of
FreeBSD-current
freebsd-isp
Issues for Internet Service Providers using
FreeBSD
freebsd-jobs
FreeBSD employment and consulting
opportunities
freebsd-newbies
New FreeBSD users activities and discussions
freebsd-policy
FreeBSD Core team policy decisions. Low volume, and
read-only
freebsd-questions
User questions and technical support
freebsd-stable
Discussion concerning the use of
FreeBSD-stable
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
freebsd-afs
Porting AFS to FreeBSD
freebsd-alpha
Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha
freebsd-atm
Using ATM networking with FreeBSD
freebsd-database
Discussing database use and development under
FreeBSD
freebsd-doc
Creating FreeBSD related documents
freebsd-emulation
Emulation of other systems such as
Linux/DOS/Windows
freebsd-fs
Filesystems
freebsd-hackers
General technical discussion
freebsd-hardware
General discussion of hardware for running
FreeBSD
freebsd-i18n
FreeBSD Internationalization
freebsd-ia64
Porting FreeBSD to Intel's upcoming IA64 systems
freebsd-ipfw
Technical discussion concerning the redesign of the IP
firewall code
freebsd-isdn
ISDN developers
freebsd-java
Java developers and people porting JDKs to
FreeBSD
freebsd-libh
The second generation installation and package
system
freebsd-mobile
Discussions about mobile computing
freebsd-mozilla
Porting mozilla to FreeBSD
freebsd-multimedia
Multimedia applications
freebsd-new-bus
Technical discussions about bus architecture
freebsd-net
Networking discussion and TCP/IP source code
freebsd-platforms
Concerning ports to non-Intel architecture
platforms
freebsd-ports
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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
storm.uk.FreeBSD.org
SSH only
Read-only cvs, personal web space, email
&a.brian
dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org
Telnet/FTP/SSH
E-Mail, Web space, Anonymous FTP
Lee Johnston
lee@uk.FreeBSD.org