Appendix C. 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 to 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, web forums, and USENET news being the most effective way of reaching that community.
The most important points of contact with the FreeBSD user community are outlined below. Please send other resources not mentioned here to the FreeBSD documentation project mailing list so that they may also be included.
C.1. Websites
The FreeBSD Forums provide a web based discussion forum for FreeBSD questions and technical discussion.
The BSDConferences YouTube Channel provides a collection of high quality videos from BSD conferences around the world. This is a great way to watch key developers give presentations about new work in FreeBSD.
C.2. Mailing Lists
The mailing lists are the most direct way of addressing questions or opening a technical discussion to a concentrated FreeBSD audience. There are a wide variety of lists on a number of different FreeBSD topics. Sending questions to the most appropriate mailing list will invariably assure a faster and more accurate 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 list subscribers receive many hundreds of FreeBSD related messages every day, and the charters and rules for use are meant 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.
To test the ability to send email to FreeBSD lists, send a test message to FreeBSD test mailing list. Please do not send test messages to any other list. |
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. Note that this also means that messages sent to FreeBSD mailing lists are archived in perpetuity. When protecting privacy is a concern, consider using a disposable secondary email address and posting only public information.
C.2.1. List Summary
General lists: The following are general lists which anyone is free (and encouraged) to join:
List | Purpose |
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FreeBSD Evangelism | |
Important events and Project milestones (moderated) | |
Architecture and design discussions | |
Discussions pertaining to the maintenance of the FreeBSD problem report database and related tools | |
Bug reports | |
Non-technical items related to the FreeBSD community | |
FreeBSD-specific Chromium issues | |
Discussion concerning the use of FreeBSD-CURRENT | |
Issues for Internet Service Providers using FreeBSD | |
FreeBSD employment and consulting opportunities | |
Calls for quarterly status reports (moderated) | |
User questions and technical support | |
Security notifications (moderated) | |
Discussion concerning the use of FreeBSD-STABLE | |
Where to send test messages instead of to one of the actual lists | |
FreeBSD advocacy for women |
Technical lists: The following lists are for technical discussion. 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 |
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ACPI and power management development | |
Porting FreeBSD to AMD64 systems (moderated) | |
Discussion about Apache related ports | |
Porting FreeBSD to ARM® processors | |
Using ATM networking with FreeBSD | |
Using Bluetooth® technology in FreeBSD | |
FreeBSD on cloud platforms (EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.) | |
Using FreeBSD in a clustered environment | |
Discussing database use and development under FreeBSD | |
Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop | |
Build and test reports from the Continuous Integration servers | |
Notifications of the FreeBSD review system | |
Creating FreeBSD related documents | |
Writing device drivers for FreeBSD | |
Using and working on DTrace in FreeBSD | |
FreeBSD users of Eclipse IDE, tools, rich client applications and ports. | |
FreeBSD-specific ElasticSearch discussions | |
Using FreeBSD in embedded applications | |
Peer support of FreeBSD-related software that is no longer supported by the FreeBSD Project. | |
Emulation of other systems such as Linux/MS-DOS®/Windows® | |
Porting Enlightenment and Enlightenment applications | |
FreeBSD-specific Erlang discussions | |
FreeBSD FireWire® (iLink, IEEE 1394) technical discussion | |
Fortran on FreeBSD | |
File systems | |
Support for Games on FreeBSD | |
Gecko Rendering Engine issues | |
GEOM-specific discussions and implementations | |
Discussion of git use in the FreeBSD project | |
Porting GNOME and GNOME applications | |
General technical discussion | |
FreeBSD-specific Haskell issues and discussions | |
General discussion of hardware for running FreeBSD | |
FreeBSD Internationalization | |
Infiniband on FreeBSD | |
Technical discussion concerning the redesign of the IP firewall code | |
ISDN developers | |
Discussion about the jail(8) facility | |
Java™ developers and people porting JDK™s to FreeBSD | |
Porting KDE and KDE applications | |
Porting LFS to FreeBSD | |
Porting FreeBSD to MIPS® | |
Mono and C# applications on FreeBSD | |
Multimedia applications | |
Technical discussions about bus architecture | |
Networking discussion and TCP/IP source code | |
Discussions of high quality implementation of libm functions | |
FreeBSD-specific OCaml discussions | |
Office applications on FreeBSD | |
Performance tuning questions for high performance/load installations | |
Maintenance of a number of Perl-related ports | |
Discussion and questions about the packet filter firewall system | |
Binary package management and package tools discussion | |
Fallout logs from package building | |
Packaging the FreeBSD base system | |
Concerning ports to non Intel® architecture platforms | |
Discussion of the Ports Collection | |
Important news and instructions about the Ports Collection (moderated) | |
Discussion of the ports bugs/PRs | |
Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC® | |
Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms | |
FreeBSD-specific Python issues | |
Discussion related to the rc.d system and its development | |
Development of realtime extensions to FreeBSD | |
Porting FreeBSD to RISC-V® systems | |
FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions | |
The SCSI subsystem | |
Security issues affecting FreeBSD | |
FreeBSD Development Snapshot Announcements | |
Porting FreeBSD to SPARC® based systems | |
FreeBSD’s conformance to the C99 and the POSIX® standards | |
sysinstall(8) development | |
FreeBSD-specific Tcl/Tk discussions | |
Testing on FreeBSD | |
Porting TeX and its applications to FreeBSD | |
Threading in FreeBSD | |
Porting FreeBSD to the Tilera family of CPUs | |
Support Token Ring in FreeBSD | |
Maintenance of FreeBSD’s integrated toolchain | |
Translating FreeBSD documents and programs | |
Discussions of transport level network protocols in FreeBSD | |
Discussing FreeBSD support for USB | |
Discussion of various virtualization techniques supported by FreeBSD | |
Discussion on VuXML infrastructure | |
Maintenance and support of X11 on FreeBSD | |
Discussion of the FreeBSD port to Xen™ - implementation and usage | |
XFCE for FreeBSD - porting and maintaining | |
Zope for FreeBSD - porting and maintaining |
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 in order to understand the communications etiquette involved.
List | Purpose |
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People running mirror sites (infrastructural support) | |
User group coordination | |
FreeBSD Work-In-Progress Status | |
Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools, device driver development |
Digest lists: All of the above lists are available in a digest format. Once subscribed to a list, the digest options can be changed in the account options section.
Commit message lists: The following lists are for people interested in seeing the log messages for changes to various areas of the source tree.
SVN log messages are sent to SVN lists. |
List | Source area | Area Description (source for) |
---|---|---|
/usr/doc | All changes to the doc repository | |
/usr/ports | All changes to the ports repository | |
/usr/ports | All changes to the "main" branch of the ports repository | |
/usr/ports | All changes to the quarterly branches of the ports repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the src repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the "main" branch of the src repository (the FreeBSD-CURRENT branch) | |
/usr/src | All changes to all stable branches of the src repository |
SVN lists: The following lists are for people interested in seeing the SVN log messages for changes to various areas of the source tree.
Only SVN log messages are sent to SVN lists. After the SVN to Git Migration, the following lists no longer receives new commit messages. |
List | Source area | Area Description (source for) |
---|---|---|
/usr/doc | All changes to the doc Subversion repository (except for user, projects and translations) | |
/usr/doc | All changes to the "head" branch of the doc Subversion repository | |
/usr/doc/projects | All changes to the projects area of the doc Subversion repository | |
/usr/doc | All changes to the administrative scripts, hooks, and other configuration data of the doc Subversion repository | |
/usr/ports | All changes to the ports Subversion repository | |
/usr/ports | All changes to the "head" branch of the ports Subversion repository | |
/usr/ports | All changes to the administrative scripts, hooks, and other configuration data of the ports Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the src Subversion repository (except for user and projects) | |
/usr/src | All changes to the "head" branch of the src Subversion repository (the FreeBSD-CURRENT branch) | |
/usr/projects | All changes to the projects area of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the releases area of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the releng branches of the src Subversion repository (the security / release engineering branches) | |
/usr/src | All changes to the all stable branches of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/6 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/7 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/8 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/9 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/10 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/11 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the stable/12 branch of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the older stable branches of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the administrative scripts, hooks, and other configuration data of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the experimental user area of the src Subversion repository | |
/usr/src | All changes to the vendor work area of the src Subversion repository |
C.2.2. How to Subscribe
To subscribe to a list, click the list name at http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo. The page that is displayed should contain all of the necessary subscription instructions for that list.
To actually post to a given list, send mail to listname@FreeBSD.org. It will then be redistributed to mailing list members world-wide.
To unsubscribe 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.
It is important to keep discussion in the technical mailing lists on a technical track. To only receive important announcements, instead join the FreeBSD announcements mailing list, which is intended for infrequent traffic.
C.2.3. 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. If the list is about technical issues, the 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 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 received with multiple mailing lists on the
Cc
line, trim theCc
line before replying. The person who replies is still responsible for cross-posting, 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-acpi
ACPI and power management development
- 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 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.
- freebsd-bluetooth
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.
- freebsd-bugbusters
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.
- freebsd-bugs
Bug reports
This is the mailing list for reporting bugs in FreeBSD. Whenever possible, bugs should be submitted using 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-chromium
FreeBSD-specific Chromium issues
This is a list for the discussion of Chromium support for FreeBSD. This is a technical list to discuss development and installation of Chromium.
- freebsd-cloud
Running FreeBSD on various cloud platforms
This list discusses running FreeBSD on Amazon EC2, Google Compute Engine, Microsoft Azure, and other cloud computing platforms.
- 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-desktop
Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop
This is a forum for discussion of FreeBSD on the desktop. It is primarily a place for desktop porters and users to discuss issues and improve FreeBSD’s desktop support.
- dev-ci
Continuous Integration reports of build and test results
All Continuous Integration reports of build and test results
- dev-reviews
Notifications of work in progress in FreeBSD’s review tool
Automated notifications of work in progress for review in FreeBSD’s review tools, including patches.
- 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-drivers
Writing device drivers for FreeBSD
This is a forum for technical discussions related to device drivers on FreeBSD. It is primarily a place for device driver writers to ask questions about how to write device drivers using the APIs in the FreeBSD kernel.
- freebsd-dtrace
Using and working on DTrace in FreeBSD
DTrace is an integrated component of FreeBSD that provides a framework for understanding the kernel as well as user space programs at run time. The mailing list is an archived discussion for developers of the code as well as those using it.
- freebsd-eclipse
FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD platform and assisting with the porting of Eclipse IDE and plugins to the FreeBSD environment.
The intention is also to facilitate exchange of information between the Eclipse community and the FreeBSD 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 FreeBSD specific applications using the Eclipse framework.
- freebsd-embedded
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, embedded systems are 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.
- freebsd-emulation
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 FreeBSD.
- freebsd-enlightenment
Enlightenment
Discussions concerning the Enlightenment Desktop Environment for FreeBSD systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected.
- freebsd-eol
Peer support of FreeBSD-related software that is no longer supported by the FreeBSD Project.
This list is for those interested in providing or making use of peer support of FreeBSD-related software for which the FreeBSD Project no longer provides official support in the form of security advisories and patches.
- freebsd-firewire
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.
- freebsd-fortran
Fortran on FreeBSD
This is the mailing list for discussion of Fortran related ports on FreeBSD: compilers, libraries, scientific and engineering applications from laptops to HPC clusters.
- freebsd-fs
File systems
Discussions concerning FreeBSD filesystems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected.
- freebsd-games
Games on FreeBSD
This is a technical list for discussions related to bringing games to FreeBSD. It is for individuals actively working on porting games to FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome.
- freebsd-gecko
Gecko Rendering Engine
This is a forum about Gecko applications using FreeBSD.
Discussion centers around Gecko Ports applications, their installation, their development and their support within FreeBSD.
- freebsd-geom
GEOM
Discussions specific to GEOM and related implementations. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected.
- freebsd-git
Use of git in the FreeBSD project
Discussions of how to use git in FreeBSD infrastructure including the github mirror and other uses of git for project collaboration. Discussion area for people using git against the FreeBSD github mirror. People wanting to get started with the mirror or git in general on FreeBSD can ask here.
- freebsd-gnome
GNOME
Discussions concerning The GNOME Desktop Environment for FreeBSD systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected.
- freebsd-infiniband
Infiniband on FreeBSD
Technical mailing list discussing Infiniband, OFED, and OpenSM on FreeBSD.
- 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-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 JDK™s.
- freebsd-jobs
Jobs offered and sought
This is a forum for posting employment notices specifically related to FreeBSD and resumes from those seeking FreeBSD-related employment. 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. Be clear about the geographic 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 Microsoft® Word (.doc) will be rejected by the mailing list server.
- freebsd-kde
KDE
Discussions concerning KDE on FreeBSD systems. This is a technical mailing list for which strictly technical content is expected.
- 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-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-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-mono
Mono and C# applications on FreeBSD
This is a list for discussions related to the Mono development framework on FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list. It is for individuals actively working on porting Mono or C# applications to FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome.
- freebsd-ocaml
FreeBSD-specific OCaml discussions
This is a list for discussions related to the OCaml support on FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list. It is for individuals working on OCaml ports, 3rd party libraries and frameworks. Individuals interested in the technical discussion are also welcome.
- freebsd-office
Office applications on FreeBSD
Discussion centers around office applications, their installation, their development and their support within FreeBSD.
- freebsd-ops-announce
Project Infrastructure Announcements
This is the mailing list for people interested in changes and issues related to the FreeBSD.org Project infrastructure.
This moderated list is strictly for announcements: no replies, requests, discussions, or opinions.
- freebsd-performance
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.
- freebsd-pf
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.
- freebsd-pkg
Binary package management and package tools discussion
Discussion of all aspects of managing FreeBSD systems by using binary packages to install software, including binary package toolkits and formats, their development and support within FreeBSD, package repository management, and third party packages.
Note that discussion of ports which fail to generate packages correctly should generally be considered as ports problems, and so inappropriate for this list.
- freebsd-pkg-fallout
Fallout logs from package building
All packages building failures logs from the package building clusters
- freebsd-pkgbase
Packaging the FreeBSD base system.
Discussions surrounding implementation and issues regarding packaging the FreeBSD base system.
- 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-ports
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.
- freebsd-ports-announce
Important news and instructions about the FreeBSD "Ports Collection"
Important news for developers, porters, and users of the "Ports Collection" (/usr/ports), including architecture/infrastructure changes, new capabilities, critical upgrade instructions, and release engineering information. This is a low-volume mailing list, intended for announcements.
- freebsd-ports-bugs
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.
- freebsd-proliant
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.
- freebsd-python
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 third party modules and Zope stuff to FreeBSD. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome.
- freebsd-questions
User questions
This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. Do not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless the question is quite technical.
- freebsd-ruby
FreeBSD-specific Ruby discussions
This is a list for discussions related to the Ruby support on FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list. It is for individuals working on Ruby ports, third party libraries and frameworks.
Individuals interested in the technical discussion are also welcome.
- 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 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.
- 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-snapshots
FreeBSD Development Snapshot Announcements
This list provides notifications about the availability of new FreeBSD development snapshots for the head/ and stable/ branches.
- freebsd-stable
Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-STABLE
This is the mailing list for users of FreeBSD-STABLE. "STABLE" is the branch where development continues after a RELEASE, including bug fixes and new features. The ABI is kept stable for binary compatibility. 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-standards
C99 POSIX Conformance
This is a forum for technical discussions related to FreeBSD Conformance to the C99 and the POSIX standards.
- freebsd-teaching
Teaching with FreeBSD
Non technical mailing list discussing teaching with FreeBSD.
- freebsd-testing
Testing on FreeBSD
Technical mailing list discussing testing on FreeBSD, including ATF/Kyua, test build infrastructure, port tests to FreeBSD from other operating systems (NetBSD, …), etc.
- freebsd-tex
Porting TeX and its applications to FreeBSD
This is a technical mailing list for discussions related to TeX and its applications on FreeBSD. It is for individuals actively working on porting TeX to FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome.
- freebsd-toolchain
Maintenance of FreeBSD’s integrated toolchain
This is the mailing list for discussions related to the maintenance of the toolchain shipped with FreeBSD. This could include the state of Clang and GCC, but also pieces of software such as assemblers, linkers and debuggers.
- freebsd-transport
Discussions of transport level network protocols in FreeBSD
The transport mailing list exists for the discussion of issues and designs around the transport level protocols in the FreeBSD network stack, including TCP, SCTP and UDP. Other networking topics, including driver specific and network protocol issues should be discussed on the FreeBSD networking mailing list.
- freebsd-translators
Translating FreeBSD documents and programs
A discussion list where translators of FreeBSD documents from English into other languages can talk about translation methods and tools. New members are asked to introduce themselves and mention the languages they are interested in translating.
- freebsd-usb
Discussing FreeBSD support for USB
This is a mailing list for technical discussions related to FreeBSD support for USB.
- 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.
- freebsd-virtualization
Discussion of various virtualization techniques supported by FreeBSD
A list to discuss the various virtualization techniques supported by FreeBSD. On one hand the focus will be on the implementation of the basic functionality as well as adding new features. On the other hand users will have a forum to ask for help in case of problems or to discuss their use cases.
- freebsd-wip-status
FreeBSD Work-In-Progress Status
This mailing list can be used by developers to announce the creation and progress of FreeBSD related work. Messages will be moderated. It is suggested to send the message "To:" a more topical FreeBSD list and only "BCC:" this list. This way the WIP can also be discussed on the topical list, as no discussion is allowed on this list.
Look inside the archives for examples of suitable messages.
An editorial digest of the messages to this list might be posted to the FreeBSD website every few months as part of the Status Reports [1]. Past reports are archived.
- freebsd-wireless
Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development
The FreeBSD-wireless list focuses on 802.11 stack (sys/net80211), device driver and tools development. This includes bugs, new features and maintenance.
- freebsd-xen
Discussion of the FreeBSD port to Xen™ - implementation and usage
A list that focuses on the FreeBSD Xen™ port. The anticipated traffic level is small enough that it is intended as a forum for both technical discussions of the implementation and design details as well as administrative deployment issues.
- freebsd-xfce
XFCE
This is a forum for discussions related to bring the XFCE environment to FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list. It is for individuals actively working on porting XFCE to FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome.
- freebsd-zope
Zope
This is a forum for discussions related to bring the Zope environment to FreeBSD. This is a technical mailing list. It is for individuals actively working on porting Zope to FreeBSD, to bring up problems or discuss alternative solutions. Individuals interested in following the technical discussion are also welcome.
C.2.4. Filtering on the Mailing Lists
The FreeBSD 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.
C.3. 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.
C.3.1. BSD Specific Newsgroups
C.3.2. Other UNIX® Newsgroups of Interest
C.3.3. X Window System
C.4. Official Mirrors
Central Servers, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States of America.
(as of UTC)
Central Servers
Armenia
http://www.at.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
Australia
Austria
http://www.at.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
Czech Republic
http://www.cz.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
Denmark
http://www.dk.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
Finland
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Ireland
Japan
Latvia
Lithuania
Netherlands
Norway
Russia
http://www.ru.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
http://www.ch.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
http://www2.ch.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
Taiwan
United Kingdom
United States of America
http://www5.us.FreeBSD.org/ (IPv6)
All FreeBSD documents are available for download at https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/doc/
Questions that are not answered by the documentation may be sent to <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>.
Send questions about this document to <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>.