The FreeBSD project integrates its resources under the FreeBSD.org domain, providing web space, mailing lists, lists of consultants, and where to get support. It aims to be a one-stop-shop for everything FreeBSD-related.
DaemonNews, FreeBSD Diary (and OpenBSD diary), the FreeBSD Mall, and the FreeBSD Documentation Set are available for people interested in FreeBSD.
There are a number of mailing lists relating to FreeBSD, the most obvious are the Questions Mailing list, which gets roughly 320 mails a day, and the General Development list, and the General Chat list.
Here's a list of mailing lists and their purpose:
Table 1. Mailing lists
| 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-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 |
| freebsd-afs | Porting AFS to FreeBSD |
| freebsd-alpha | Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha |
| freebsd-doc | Creating FreeBSD related documents |
| freebsd-database | Discussing database use and development under FreeBSD |
| 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-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-mobile | Discussions about mobile computing |
| freebsd-mozilla | Porting mozilla to FreeBSD |
| 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-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 |
FreeBSD has many mirrors, organized by country, which provide mirrors of the web site, ftp site, cvsup facility, and so forth.
Here's a list of web mirrors:
Example 5. Web mirror list
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://www.br.FreeBSD.org/www.freebsd.org/ --- Brazil.
http://www.bg.FreeBSD.org/ --- Bulgaria.
http://www.ca.FreeBSD.org/ --- Canada/1.
http://FreeBSD.kawartha.com/ --- Canada/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.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.
http://rama.asiapac.net/freebsd/ --- Malaysia.
http://www.nl.FreeBSD.org/ --- Netherlands.
http://www.no.FreeBSD.org/ --- Norway.
http://www.pl.FreeBSD.org/ --- Poland.
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://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.tr.FreeBSD.org/ --- Turkey.
http://www.ua.FreeBSD.org/www.freebsd.org/ --- Ukraine/1.
http://www2.ua.FreeBSD.org/ --- Ukraine/2.
http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ --- United Kingdom.
http://www6.FreeBSD.org/ --- USA/Oregon.
http://www2.FreeBSD.org/ --- USA/Texas.
DaemonNews is heralded as the rallying point for the BSDs, and has a philosophy of using the BSDs as a toolkit, and choosing the best tool for the specific job, carrying on the common "FreeBSD for performance, NetBSD for portability, OpenBSD for security" cry.
DaemonNews has a monthly edition, and a daily "weblog", much like Slashdot. They cover FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, and Mac OS X.
There is a South African FreeBSD mailing list, for local users who want to converse with others, run by os.org.za.
There are at least two web mirrors (www and www2.za.FreeBSD.org), four ftp mirrors (ftp through ftp4.za.FreeBSD.org), and three cvsup mirrors (cvsup through cvsup3.za.FreeBSD.org).
On the LAGnet IRC network, there is FreeBSD help in #unix. My nick is either nbm or nxsy.