diff --git a/en/applications.sgml b/en/applications.sgml index c1eada3136..ae5ed91617 100644 --- a/en/applications.sgml +++ b/en/applications.sgml @@ -1,133 +1,133 @@ + %includes; ]> - + - + &header; -

Experience the possibilities with FreeBSD

-
FreeBSD can handle nearly any task you would expect of a UNIX workstation, -as well as many you might not expect:
+
FreeBSD can handle nearly any task you would expect of a UNIX workstation, +as well as many you might not expect:

FreeBSD -is a true open system with full source code. +

FreeBSD +is a true open system with full source code.

-
There is no doubt that so-called open systems are the requirement +
There is no doubt that so-called open systems are the requirement for today's computing applications. But no commercial vendor-supplied solution is more open than one which includes full source code to the entire operating system, including the kernel plus all of the system daemons, programs, and utilities. You can modify any part of FreeBSD to suit your personal, -organizational, or corporate needs.
+organizational, or corporate needs.
-
With its generous licensing -policy, you can use FreeBSD as the basis for any number of free or -commercial applications.
+
With its generous licensing +policy, you can use FreeBSD as the basis for any number of free or +commercial applications.

FreeBSD runs -thousands of applications. +

FreeBSD runs +thousands of applications.

-
Because FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD, an industry-standard version of +
Because FreeBSD is based on 4.4BSD, an industry-standard version of UNIX, it is easy to compile and run programs. FreeBSD also includes an extensive -packages collection and -ports collection that bring +packages collection and +ports collection that bring precompiled and easy-to-build software right to your desktop or enterprise -server. There is also a growing number of commercial -applications written for FreeBSD.
+server. There is also a growing number of commercial +applications written for FreeBSD.
-
Here are some examples of the environments in which FreeBSD is used:
+
Here are some examples of the environments in which FreeBSD is used:

-
Internet services. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) find +
Internet services. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other services. -Ready-to-run software like the Apache +Ready-to-run software like the Apache web server or the Wu-ftpd FTP server make it easy to set up a business -or community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable networking, -your users will enjoy high speed, reliable services.
+or community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable networking, +your users will enjoy high speed, reliable services. -
X Window workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal to an -advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (XFree86) -comes with the system. Xi Graphics offers +
X Window workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal to an +advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (XFree86) +comes with the system. Xi Graphics offers accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such as -Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif and OpenGL libraries.
+Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif and OpenGL libraries. -
Networking. From packet filtering to routing to name service, +
Networking. From packet filtering to routing to name service, FreeBSD can turn any PC into a Internet firewall, email host, print server, -PC/NFS server, and more.
+PC/NFS server, and more. -
Software development. A suite of development tools comes with +
Software development. A suite of development tools comes with FreeBSD, including the GNU C/C++ compiler and debugger and the Perl scripting language. Java and Tcl/Tk development are also possible. Popular editors like Xemacs and more esoteric programming languages like Icon work just fine, too. And FreeBSD's shared libraries have always been easy to make -and use.
+and use. -
Net surfing. A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet -surfboard, and the BSD version of Netscape -Navigator with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web, publish +
Net surfing. A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet +surfboard, and the BSD version of Netscape +Navigator with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web, publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive email with a -FreeBSD system on your desktop.
+FreeBSD system on your desktop. -
Education and research. FreeBSD makes an excellent research +
Education and research. FreeBSD makes an excellent research platform because it includes complete source code. Students and researchers of operating systems or other computer science fields can benefit greatly -from such an open and well-documented system.
+from such an open and well-documented system. -
And much more. Accounting, action games, MIS databases, +
And much more. Accounting, action games, MIS databases, scientific visualization, video conferencing, Internet relay chat (IRC), home automation, multiuser dungeons, bulletin board systems, image scanning, and more are all real uses for FreeBSD today. If you have an innovative -application for FreeBSD, -let us know -so we can add it to our gallery.
-
+application for FreeBSD, +let us know +so we can add it to our gallery. +

An -operating system that will grow with your needs. +

An +operating system that will grow with your needs.

-
Though FreeBSD is free software, it is also user supported software. +
Though FreeBSD is free software, it is also user supported software. Any questions you have can be posted to hundreds of FreeBSD developers and users simply by e-mailing to the -freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mailing -list.
+freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mailing +list.
-
FreeBSD also has a worldwide group of programmers and writers who fix +
FreeBSD also has a worldwide group of programmers and writers who fix bugs, add new features and document the system. Support for new devices or special features is an almost constant development process, and the team keeps a special eye out for problems which effect system stability. FreeBSD users are quite proud of not only how fast but how reliable their -systems are.
+systems are.

What experts have to say . . .

-
``FreeBSD handles [our] heavy load quite well and it is nothing short -of amazing. Salutations to the FreeBSD team.''
+
``FreeBSD handles [our] heavy load quite well and it is nothing short +of amazing. Salutations to the FreeBSD team.''
-
---Mark Hittinger, administrator of WinNet Communications, -Inc.
+
---Mark Hittinger, administrator of WinNet Communications, +Inc.

&footer; - - + + diff --git a/en/auditors.sgml b/en/auditors.sgml index aeb6405ebd..edd1fa10ec 100644 --- a/en/auditors.sgml +++ b/en/auditors.sgml @@ -1,438 +1,438 @@ + %includes; ]> - + - + &header; -

General Information

-Last Updated: $Date: 1999-06-10 19:40:35 $ +Last Updated: $Date: 1999-06-10 22:04:33 $ -

Overview

In light of our recent (and still ongoing) security concerns, it +

In light of our recent (and still ongoing) security concerns, it has become rather obvious that nothing less than a rigorous and comprehensive security review of the FreeBSD source tree will enable us to really have much confidence in the security of our operating system, an OS that many have come increasingly to rely upon and must be made more than reasonably secure if they are to continue to be able -to do so.

+to do so.

The sheer amount of legacy code & code from outside sources in +

The sheer amount of legacy code & code from outside sources in FreeBSD also makes it especially easy for security holes to go unnoticed until it's rather too late, and no truly large-scale attempt has been made up to this point to really go through the codebase with a specific focus on security issues, that being a rather big project and most FreeBSD developers being more than busy enough elsewhere. This situation must now change, however, if we are to remain the kind of operating system that people can continue to rely upon as the Internet continues to grow and (I suspect) become an ever-more hostile environment for improperly protected systems. Proper security is something of a cooperative arrangement between the local administrator -and the OS vendor, and this "OS vendor" needs to do its part.

+and the OS vendor, and this "OS vendor" needs to do its part.

The core team's first step in becoming more serious about security +

The core team's first step in becoming more serious about security was to bring the project's security officer, Guido van Rooij, into the team so that one of the "voices at the table" would have security as his primary mandate and representation in all the important security mailing lists external to the FreeBSD Project. He will also keep the rest of us in core much more aware of security concerns as they arise, hopefully not to be taken quite so by -surprise as we have a few times in the past.

+surprise as we have a few times in the past.

Our second step will be this audit, an attempt to methodically go +

Our second step will be this audit, an attempt to methodically go through every line of source in FreeBSD looking for obvious buffer overflows (sprintf()/strcpy() vs snprintf()/strncpy() and so on), less obvious security holes, instances of insufficiently defensive coding, amusing comment strings to forward to freebsd-chat, whatever we run -across.

+across.

Using the +

Using the modules database as an outline, we will split the source tree into more manageable pieces, keeping a sign-up sheet in a prominent place so that people can see which modules are covered and which are not. A carefully selected team of individuals is now also being formed, that team being composed of "auditors" and "reviewers" (most members of the team being both). An auditor has principle responsibility, which may be shared with another auditor, for actually going through the code and looking for security holes and/or bugs. Once a reasonable pile of diffs have been accumulated, assuming that any problems were found, they are send to one or more reviewers who are responsible for giving the changes another once-over and, if the auditor does not have commit privileges, to actually commit the changes when & if they're deemed -acceptable.

+acceptable.

Requirements:

In order to be an auditor, you should either have commit privileges on +

In order to be an auditor, you should either have commit privileges on freefall.freebsd.org or an arrangement with another auditor/reviewer who does. You should also be running or have immediate access to FreeBSD-current sources since all of our changes will be made relative to that branch and then brought back (as necessary) into the 2.1 and 2.2 branches. -

What to look for and what the general rules to follow are is sufficiently +

What to look for and what the general rules to follow are is sufficiently complex that I have turned it into a FreeBSD Security Guide. Please read this now if you haven't already. Other excellent documents are the Secure Programming Checklist and the Unix Security Checklist, both available from AUSCERT. -

Sign-Up sheet:

Here is the sign-up sheet as it sits so far. This is *very* skeletal +

Here is the sign-up sheet as it sits so far. This is *very* skeletal at this stage, given that we've just now started, and as people indicate which module(s) they're willing to either audit or review, we'll fill it in. If this tabular format also becomes unwieldy as it fills up, we can change it or put it on a web page or something. :) I've left some sample entries open just as place-holders, and they in no way imply that someone has to be willing to pick up pieces that -large.

+large.

Anything in the modules database represents a potential auditing +

Anything in the modules database represents a potential auditing target - from ones as small as "cat" to ones as large as "lib", the most important being that people bite off pieces no larger than they think they can chew. If you take 15 things onto your plate and deal with only 5, you're not doing anyone any favors since the other -auditors will be assuming that the other 10 items are handled!

+auditors will be assuming that the other 10 items are handled!

To sign up for something, please send mail to jmb@FreeBSD.org. -

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Module	Auditor(s)	Reviewer(s)	Status
bin	-ac -ee* -gvr* -jh -ka -mu -vk -	imp* jmb* md* gvr*	Open
contrib	-cg -	gvr*	Open
eBones	-mrvm* -	gvr*	Open
games	-ab -ee* -xaa -	gvr*	Open
init	-gl -	gvr*	Open
lib	-ak -bjn -pst* -	dg* imp* jkh* gvr*	Open
libc	-ee* -mu -	gvr*	Open
libexec	-crh -ee* -imp* -mr -witr -	gvr*	Open
lkm	-dob* -	gvr*	Open
sbin	-ee* -imp* -or* -tao -	jmb* md* gvr*	Open
secure	-dc -mrvm* -	gvr*	Open
telnetd	-ac -dn -	imp* gvr*	Open
usr.bin	-bob -ee* -jha -jm -ky* -rb -rd -rjk -vk -	md* gvr*	Open
usr.sbin	-ee* -ejc -gl -imp* -jm -marc -rd -	md* gvr*	Open

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Module	Auditor(s)	Reviewer(s)	Status
bin	+ac +ee* +gvr* +jh +ka +mu +vk +	imp* jmb* md* gvr*	Open
contrib	+cg +	gvr*	Open
eBones	+mrvm* +	gvr*	Open
games	+ab +ee* +xaa +	gvr*	Open
init	+gl +	gvr*	Open
lib	+ak +bjn +pst* +	dg* imp* jkh* gvr*	Open
libc	+ee* +mu +	gvr*	Open
libexec	+crh +ee* +imp* +mr +witr +	gvr*	Open
lkm	+dob* +	gvr*	Open
sbin	+ee* +imp* +or* +tao +	jmb* md* gvr*	Open
secure	+dc +mrvm* +	gvr*	Open
telnetd	+ac +dn +	imp* gvr*	Open
usr.bin	+bob +ee* +jha +jm +ky* +rb +rd +rjk +vk +	md* gvr*	Open
usr.sbin	+ee* +ejc +gl +imp* +jm +marc +rd +	md* gvr*	Open

Auditor/Reviewer keys

This is the list of people who have volunteered to participate as +

This is the list of people who have volunteered to participate as auditors or reviewers in this process. They may also be reached collectively by sending mail to the auditors@FreeBSD.org alias at times when it is appropriate to send mail to all auditors. If you wish to reach just the auditors & reviewers for a specific category, say usr.sbin for example, then you would send mail to -audit-usr.sbin@FreeBSD.org.

+audit-usr.sbin@FreeBSD.org.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Key	Auditor/Reviewer Name and Email address
ab	Aaron Bornstein -aaronb@j51.com
ac	Adrian Chadd -adrian@psinet.net.au
ak	Adam Kubicki -apk@itl.waw.pl
am	Albert Mietus -gam@gamp.hacom.nl
avk	Alexander V. Kalganov -top@sonic.cris.net
bb	Bob Bishop -rb@gid.co.uk
bjn	Brent J. Nordquist -nordquist@platinum.com
bob	Bob Willcox -bob@luke.pmr.com
btm	Brian T. Michely -brianm@cmhcsys.com
cg	Coranth Gryphon -gryphon@healer.com
cl	Chris Lambertus -cmlambertus@ucdavis.edu
crh	Charles Henrich -henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
dc	Dan Cross -tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu
dg*	David Greenman -davidg@FreeBSD.org
din	Dinesh Nair -dinesh@alphaque.com
dn	David Nugent -davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au
dob*	David E. O'Brien -obrien@NUXI.com
dz	Danny J. Zerkel -dzerkel@phofarm.com
ee*	Eivind Eklund -eivind@FreeBSD.org
eh	Elijah Hempstone -avatar@gandalf.bss.sol.net
ehu	Ernest Hua -hua@chromatic.com
ejc	Eric J. Chet -ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com
gl	Giles Lean -giles@nemeton.com.au
gvr*	Guido van Rooij -guido@FreeBSD.org
gw	Graham Wheeler -gram@oms.co.za
imp*	Warner Losh -imp@FreeBSD.org
jb	Jim Bresler -jfb11@inlink.com
jh	Jake Hamby -jehamby@lightside.com
jha	John H. Aughey -jha@cs.purdue.edu
jk	Jerry Kendall -Jerry@kcis.com
jkh*	Jordan K. Hubbard -jkh@FreeBSD.org
jm	Josef Moellers -mollers.pad@sni.de
jmb*	Jonathan M. Bresler -jmb@FreeBSD.org
joe*	Joe Greco -jgreco@solaria.sol.net
ka	Kalganov Alexander -top@bird.cris.net
ki	Kenneth Ingham -ingham@i-pi.com
ky*	Kazutaka YOKOTA -yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
marc	Marc Slemko -marcs@znep.com
md*	Matt Dillon -dillon@best.net
mr	Mike Romaniw -msr@cuc.com
mrvm*	Mark Murray -mark@grondar.za
mu	Mudge -mudge@l0pht.com
or*	Ollivier Robert -roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
pb	Peter Blake -ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk
peter*	Peter Wemm -peter@FreeBSD.org
phk*	Poul-Henning Kamp -phk@FreeBSD.org
pst*	Paul Traina -pst@FreeBSD.org
rb	Reinier Bezuidenhout -rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
rd	Rajiv Dighe -rajivd@sprynet.com
rel	Roger Espel Llima -espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr
rjk	Richard J Kuhns -rjk@grauel.com
rm	Robin Melville -robmel@nadt.org.uk
rs	Robert Sexton -robert@kudra.com
sc	Sergei Chechetkin -csl@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua
tao	Brian Tao -taob@risc.org
tdr	Thomas David Rivers -ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
vk	Vadim Kolontsov -vadim@tversu.ac.ru
witr	Robert Withrow -witr@rwwa.com
xaa	Mark Huizer -xaa@stack.nl

* = Has CVS commit privileges.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Key	Auditor/Reviewer Name and Email address
ab	Aaron Bornstein +aaronb@j51.com
ac	Adrian Chadd +adrian@psinet.net.au
ak	Adam Kubicki +apk@itl.waw.pl
am	Albert Mietus +gam@gamp.hacom.nl
avk	Alexander V. Kalganov +top@sonic.cris.net
bb	Bob Bishop +rb@gid.co.uk
bjn	Brent J. Nordquist +nordquist@platinum.com
bob	Bob Willcox +bob@luke.pmr.com
btm	Brian T. Michely +brianm@cmhcsys.com
cg	Coranth Gryphon +gryphon@healer.com
cl	Chris Lambertus +cmlambertus@ucdavis.edu
crh	Charles Henrich +henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
dc	Dan Cross +tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu
dg*	David Greenman +davidg@FreeBSD.org
din	Dinesh Nair +dinesh@alphaque.com
dn	David Nugent +davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au
dob*	David E. O'Brien +obrien@NUXI.com
dz	Danny J. Zerkel +dzerkel@phofarm.com
ee*	Eivind Eklund +eivind@FreeBSD.org
eh	Elijah Hempstone +avatar@gandalf.bss.sol.net
ehu	Ernest Hua +hua@chromatic.com
ejc	Eric J. Chet +ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.com
gl	Giles Lean +giles@nemeton.com.au
gvr*	Guido van Rooij +guido@FreeBSD.org
gw	Graham Wheeler +gram@oms.co.za
imp*	Warner Losh +imp@FreeBSD.org
jb	Jim Bresler +jfb11@inlink.com
jh	Jake Hamby +jehamby@lightside.com
jha	John H. Aughey +jha@cs.purdue.edu
jk	Jerry Kendall +Jerry@kcis.com
jkh*	Jordan K. Hubbard +jkh@FreeBSD.org
jm	Josef Moellers +mollers.pad@sni.de
jmb*	Jonathan M. Bresler +jmb@FreeBSD.org
joe*	Joe Greco +jgreco@solaria.sol.net
ka	Kalganov Alexander +top@bird.cris.net
ki	Kenneth Ingham +ingham@i-pi.com
ky*	Kazutaka YOKOTA +yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
marc	Marc Slemko +marcs@znep.com
md*	Matt Dillon +dillon@best.net
mr	Mike Romaniw +msr@cuc.com
mrvm*	Mark Murray +mark@grondar.za
mu	Mudge +mudge@l0pht.com
or*	Ollivier Robert +roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
pb	Peter Blake +ppb@baloo.tcp.co.uk
peter*	Peter Wemm +peter@FreeBSD.org
phk*	Poul-Henning Kamp +phk@FreeBSD.org
pst*	Paul Traina +pst@FreeBSD.org
rb	Reinier Bezuidenhout +rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za
rd	Rajiv Dighe +rajivd@sprynet.com
rel	Roger Espel Llima +espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr
rjk	Richard J Kuhns +rjk@grauel.com
rm	Robin Melville +robmel@nadt.org.uk
rs	Robert Sexton +robert@kudra.com
sc	Sergei Chechetkin +csl@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua
tao	Brian Tao +taob@risc.org
tdr	Thomas David Rivers +ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com
vk	Vadim Kolontsov +vadim@tversu.ac.ru
witr	Robert Withrow +witr@rwwa.com
xaa	Mark Huizer +xaa@stack.nl

* = Has CVS commit privileges.

&footer; - - + + diff --git a/en/availability.sgml b/en/availability.sgml index 51d12a9bb7..7ed6e9fcca 100644 --- a/en/availability.sgml +++ b/en/availability.sgml @@ -1,96 +1,96 @@ + %includes; ]> - + - + &header; -

Availability of FreeBSD

-
FreeBSD is free and is available for downloading over the Internet or -on CD-ROM for a small fee.
+
FreeBSD is free and is available for downloading over the Internet or +on CD-ROM for a small fee.

Hardware -requirements. +

Hardware +requirements.

-
FreeBSD requires a PC-type personal computer running with an Intel, +
FreeBSD requires a PC-type personal computer running with an Intel, AMD, Cyrix, or compatible 386, 486, or Pentium CPU. You computer needs an ISA, EISA, VESA, or PCI bus. You will also need 5 megabytes of RAM to install FreeBSD (but 4 megabytes to run it after installation). For best performance, you should have 8 megabytes or more. 60MB of disk space is -required for a minimal installation.
+required for a minimal installation.
-
FreeBSD supports most popular Ethernet adaptors, SCSI controllers, +
FreeBSD supports most popular Ethernet adaptors, SCSI controllers, IDE hard drives, multiport serial cards, CD-ROM drives, tape drives, sound -cards, mice, and other hardware. See both the Frequently -Asked Questions list and the &a.latest.not;release -notes for complete information on supported hardware.
+cards, mice, and other hardware. See both the Frequently +Asked Questions list and the &a.latest.not;release +notes for complete information on supported hardware.

Where -to get it. +

Where +to get it.

-
You can get FreeBSD free via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. -You might also want to check a geographically close mirror -site.
+
You can get FreeBSD free via anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. +You might also want to check a geographically close mirror +site.
-
If you have a CD-ROM drive, you can get FreeBSD on CD-ROM for a -modest price from Walnut Creek CDROM:
+
If you have a CD-ROM drive, you can get FreeBSD on CD-ROM for a +modest price from Walnut Creek CDROM:

-
Walnut Creek CDROM
+
Walnut Creek CDROM
4041 Pike Lane, Suite F
Concord, CA 94520
USA
-Phone: +1 925 674-0783
+Phone: +1 925 674-0783
Phone: +1 800 786-9907
-Fax: +1 925 674-0821
-Email: info@cdrom.com
+Fax: +1 925 674-0821
+Email: info@cdrom.com

-
In addition to FreeBSD, the CD-ROM comes with hundreds of ready-to-run -programs. It is backed by an unconditional money back guarantee.
+
In addition to FreeBSD, the CD-ROM comes with hundreds of ready-to-run +programs. It is backed by an unconditional money back guarantee.

About -the FreeBSD Project. +

About +the FreeBSD Project.

-
FreeBSD is developed and supported by a worldwide team of programmers. -Jordan Hubbard, one of the project's -founders, has written a brief -history of the FreeBSD project. Information about who's -responsible for what is also available. If you are curious, take a look -at some pictures -of the team members. A more complete listing of contributors is available -in the Contributors -section of the FreeBSD -Handbook. FreeBSD is an open project welcomes the help of individuals -who have time and or skills to offer.
- -
This "about" section was created by Sean -Kelly.
+
FreeBSD is developed and supported by a worldwide team of programmers. +Jordan Hubbard, one of the project's +founders, has written a brief +history of the FreeBSD project. Information about who's +responsible for what is also available. If you are curious, take a look +at some pictures +of the team members. A more complete listing of contributors is available +in the Contributors +section of the FreeBSD +Handbook. FreeBSD is an open project welcomes the help of individuals +who have time and or skills to offer.
+ +
This "about" section was created by Sean +Kelly.

Inside your PC is a daemon -waiting to be unleashed. Free it with FreeBSD.

Inside your PC is a daemon +waiting to be unleashed. Free it with FreeBSD.

&footer; - - + + diff --git a/en/docs.sgml b/en/docs.sgml index fbe3718d39..aea8959ae5 100644 --- a/en/docs.sgml +++ b/en/docs.sgml @@ -1,281 +1,281 @@ + %includes; ]> - + &header;

FreeBSD in the Press
Year 2000 Compatibility
Newsletter
FreeBSD Quick Newsletter
The FreeBSD Handbook
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Tutorials
Additional Resources
Books
Manual Pages
4.4BSD Documents
Info Documents
The Source Code
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
The FreeBSD Diary

FreeBSD in the Press

The press about FreeBSD.

Year 2000 Compatibility

This is the FreeBSD project's current statement about its Year 2000 compatibility.

The FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM.

FreeBSD Real-Quick (TM) Newsletter (RQN)

A monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter containing recent developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to freebsd-announce to receive this newsletter via e-mail.

The FreeBSD Handbook

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

A Japanese translation of the handbook (EUC encoding) is also available.

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.

&i.new; We now offer a Russian translation and a Chinese translation of the FAQ.

A Japanese translation of the FAQ (EUC encoding) is also available.

Tutorials

Here lie assorted documents on various aspects of FreeBSD, FreeBSD software, and hardware. If you have comments or would like to contribute a document, please contact us at freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org.

Additional Resources

www.FreeBSD.org is not the only place to get information on FreeBSD and various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful information on FreeBSD:

Kirk McKusick, one of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley, teaches two 4.4BSD Kernel Internals courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to attend the courses in person, a video tape series is also now available.
The Open Directory Project offers an excellent selection of links for FreeBSD, including a list of prominent users which can be helpful for marketing purposes.
Computer Bits, an Internet online magazine, has, since March 1996, been running an excellent series of FreeBSD related articles in their column titled The Network Community, - by Ted Mittelstaedt. + by Ted Mittelstaedt.
These articles cover everything from setting up a FreeBSD based mail server to doing Network Address Translation for other hosts.
- A Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD - an attempt at a more readable, +
+ A Comprehensive Guide to FreeBSD - an attempt at a more readable, "book-like" tutorial explaining the FreeBSD Operating System. Intended for people new to both FreeBSD and UNIX. Currently a work in progress.
- FreeBSD How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless is another somewhat +
+ FreeBSD How-To's for the Lazy and Hopeless is another somewhat more light-hearted attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style information on setting up and configuring FreeBSD.
The Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO - +
The Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO - this document describes how to use Linux and FreeBSD on the same system. It introduces FreeBSD and discusses how the two operating systems can cooperate, e.g. by sharing swap space.

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.

Manual Pages

FreeBSD: For release: 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6.1, 2.1.7.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 4.0-current, Ports.
Other Systems: Unix Seventh Edition (V7), 2.8BSD, 2.9.1BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD, 4.3BSD Reno, NET/2, 386BSD 0.1, 4.4BSD Lite2, Linux Slackware, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, SunOS 4.x, SunOS 5.x, ULTRIX 4.2, and XFree86.

This service is provided courtesy of Wolfram Schneider. There is another script available with the manual pages for FreeBSD 2.0 and XFree86 release 3.1, courtesy of - - Hinrich Eilts.

+ + Hinrich Eilts.

4.4BSD Documents

If you like reading BSD manuals online, here is a hypertext version of the 4.4BSD documents from /usr/share/doc, where you would find the documents on a FreeBSD machine (if the doc distribution was installed).

Info Documents

If you like reading FreeBSD Info documents online, here is a hypertext version of the Info documents from /usr/share/info, where you would find the Info documents on a FreeBSD machine (if the info distribution was installed).

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.

The FreeBSD Documentation Project

Daemon News

The industry leader in BSD news.

FreeBSD ezine

The FreeBSD 'zine is a monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.

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.

The FreeBSD Diary

The FreeBSD Diary is a collection of how-to entries aimed at UNIX novices. The aim is to provide a set of step-by-step guides to installing and configuring various ports.

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FreeBSD offers many advanced features.

-
No matter what the application, you want your system's resources performing +
No matter what the application, you want your system's resources performing at their full potential. FreeBSD's advanced features enable you to do just -that.
+that.

A -complete operating system based on 4.4BSD. +

A +complete operating system based on 4.4BSD.

-
FreeBSD's distinguished roots derive from the latest BSD +
FreeBSD's distinguished roots derive from the latest BSD software releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at the -University of California, Berkeley. The book The Design and Implementation -of 4.4BSD Operating System, written by the 4.4BSD system architects, -thus describes much of FreeBSD's core functionality in detail.
+University of California, Berkeley. The book The Design and Implementation +of 4.4BSD Operating System, written by the 4.4BSD system architects, +thus describes much of FreeBSD's core functionality in detail.
-
Drawing on the skills and experience of a diverse and world-wide group of +
Drawing on the skills and experience of a diverse and world-wide group of volunteer developers, the FreeBSD Project has worked to extend the feature set of the 4.4BSD operating system in many ways, striving constantly to make each new release of the OS more stable, faster and containing new -functionality driven by user requests.
+functionality driven by user requests.

FreeBSD +

FreeBSD provides higher performance, greater compatibility with other operating -systems and less system administration. +systems and less system administration.

-
FreeBSD's developers attacked some of the more difficult problems in -operating systems design to give you these advanced features:
+
FreeBSD's developers attacked some of the more difficult problems in +operating systems design to give you these advanced features:

-
Bounce buffering gets around a limitation in the PC's ISA architecture -that limits direct-memory access to the first 16 megabytes.
Result: +
Bounce buffering gets around a limitation in the PC's ISA architecture +that limits direct-memory access to the first 16 megabytes.
Result: systems with more than 16 megabytes operate more efficiently with DMA -peripherals on the ISA bus.
+peripherals on the ISA bus. -
A merged virtual memory and filesystem buffer cache +
A merged virtual memory and filesystem buffer cache continuously tunes the amount of memory used for programs and the disk -cache.
Result: programs receive both excellent memory management +cache.
Result: programs receive both excellent memory management and high performance disk access, -and the system administrator is freed from the task of tuning cache sizes.
+and the system administrator is freed from the task of tuning cache sizes. -
Compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems +
Compatibility modules enable programs for other operating systems to run on FreeBSD, including programs for Linux, SCO, NetBSD, and BSDI. -
Result: users will not have to recompile programs already compiled +
Result: users will not have to recompile programs already compiled for one of the compatible OS's, and will have access to a greater selection of off-the-shelf software, like the Microsoft FrontPage Server extensions for BSDI or WordPerfect -for SCO.
+for SCO. -
Dynamically loadable kernel modules allows new filesystem types, +
Dynamically loadable kernel modules allows new filesystem types, networking protocols or binary emulators to be added to the kernel at -runtime without having to generate a new kernel image.
Result: +runtime without having to generate a new kernel image.
Result: Much time can be saved and 3rd party vendors can deliver complete subsystems as kernel modules without having to distribute source or have lengthy -installation procedures.
+installation procedures. -
Shared libraries reduce the size of programs, saving disk space +
Shared libraries reduce the size of programs, saving disk space and memory. FreeBSD uses an advanced shared library scheme which offers many of the advantages of ELF, and the current version offers ELF compatibility -for both Linux and native FreeBSD programs.
+for both Linux and native FreeBSD programs.
-
Naturally, since FreeBSD is an ongoing effort, you can expect newer -features and higher levels of stability with each release.
+
Naturally, since FreeBSD is an ongoing effort, you can expect newer +features and higher levels of stability with each release.

What experts have to say . . .

-
``FreeBSD has an outline-structured visual configuration editor ... +
``FreeBSD has an outline-structured visual configuration editor ... you can enter the configuration of every device the OS supports and can therefore get a successful installation on the first try almost every time. -IBM, Microsoft, and others would do well to emulate FreeBSD's approach.''
+IBM, Microsoft, and others would do well to emulate FreeBSD's approach.''
-
---Brett Glass, Infoworld, April 8 1996.
+
---Brett Glass, Infoworld, April 8 1996.

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FreeBSD was designed for the Internet

FreeBSD includes what many consider the reference implementation +
FreeBSD includes what many consider the reference implementation for TCP/IP software, the 4.4 BSD TCP/IP protocol stack, thereby making it -ideal for network applications and the Internet.
+ideal for network applications and the Internet.

FreeBSD -supports standard TCP/IP protocols. +

FreeBSD +supports standard TCP/IP protocols.

-
Like most UNIX systems, the FreeBSD operating system enables you to
+
Like most UNIX systems, the FreeBSD operating system enables you to
-
-
Share filesystems with NFS
+
+
Share filesystems with NFS
-
Distribute network information with NIS
+
Distribute network information with NIS
-
Support remote logins
+
Support remote logins
-
Do remote SNMP configuration and management
+
Do remote SNMP configuration and management
-
Serve files with FTP
+
Serve files with FTP
-
Resolve Internet hostnames with DNS/BIND
+
Resolve Internet hostnames with DNS/BIND
-
Route packets between multiple interfaces, including PPP and SLIP lines
+
Route packets between multiple interfaces, including PPP and SLIP lines
-
Use IP Multicast services (the MBONE)
+
Use IP Multicast services (the MBONE)

-
FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or Usenet +
FreeBSD lets you to turn a PC into a World Wide Web server or Usenet news relay with included software. Using the included SAMBA software you can even share filesystems or printers with your Win95 and NT machines and, with the supplied PCNFS authentication daemon, you can support machines running PC/NFS. FreeBSD also supports Appletalk and Novell client/server networking (using an optional commercial package), making it a true "Intranet" networking solution. -
+
-
FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the RFC-1323 -high performance extension and RFC-1644 +
FreeBSD also handles TCP extensions like the RFC-1323 +high performance extension and RFC-1644 extension for transactions, plus SLIP and dial-on-demand PPP. It is an operating system suitable for a home-based net surfer as well as a corporate systems -administrator.
+administrator.

FreeBSD's -networking is stable and fast. +

FreeBSD's +networking is stable and fast.

-
If you need an Internet server platform that is reliable and offers the +
If you need an Internet server platform that is reliable and offers the best performance under heavy load, then consider FreeBSD. Here are just a few -of the companies that make use of FreeBSD every day:
+of the companies that make use of FreeBSD every day:
-
-
Walnut Creek CD-ROM outside of -San Francisco runs one of the most popular FTP servers +
+
Walnut Creek CD-ROM outside of +San Francisco runs one of the most popular FTP servers on the net, one that supports over 2500 simultaneous connections. Their server is a single FreeBSD machine, transferring more than 7 terabytes (as of November, 1997; yes -that is terabytes!) worth of files every month. The -configuration -details are available to those interested in building simililar -systems.
+that is terabytes!) worth of files every month. The +configuration +details are available to those interested in building simililar +systems. -
Yahoo Inc. runs the ultimate index +
Yahoo Inc. runs the ultimate index of the Internet, serving scads of daily net surfers with information about the World Wide Web. Yahoo, as well the companies that advertise on Yahoo, -rely on FreeBSD to run reliable and responsive web servers.
+rely on FreeBSD to run reliable and responsive web servers. -
If that is not enough, visit our Gallery -of satisfied FreeBSD users.
+
If that is not enough, visit our Gallery +of satisfied FreeBSD users.

-
FreeBSD makes an ideal platform for these and other Internet services:
+
FreeBSD makes an ideal platform for these and other Internet services:

-
Company-wide or world-wide WWW service
+
Company-wide or world-wide WWW service
-
Proxy WWW service
+
Proxy WWW service
-
Anonymous FTP service
+
Anonymous FTP service
-
Enterprise file and print services
+
Enterprise file and print services

-
The FreeBSD ports collection +
The FreeBSD ports collection contains ready-to-run software that makes it easy to set up your own Internet -server.
+server.

High -performance and security. +

High +performance and security.

-
The FreeBSD development team is as concerned about security as they +
The FreeBSD development team is as concerned about security as they are about performance. FreeBSD includes kernel support for IP firewalling, as well other services, such as IP proxy gateways. If you put your corporate servers on the Internet, any 386 PC (or better) running FreeBSD can act as -a network firewall to protect them from outside attack.
+a network firewall to protect them from outside attack.
-
Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption +
Encryption software, secure shells, Kerberos, end-to-end encryption and secure RPC facilities are also available (subject to export -restrictions).
+restrictions).
-
Furthermore, the FreeBSD team is proactive in detecting and disseminating +
Furthermore, the FreeBSD team is proactive in detecting and disseminating security information and bug reports with a security officer and ties to the Computer Emergency Response Team -(CERT).
+(CERT).

What experts have to say . . .

-
``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable -TCP/IP stack in existence ...''
+
``FreeBSD ... provides what is probably the most robust and capable +TCP/IP stack in existence ...''
-
---Michael O'Brien, SunExpert August 1996 volume -7 number 8.
+
---Michael O'Brien, SunExpert August 1996 volume +7 number 8.

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BOOKS -
CDROMS -
MAGAZINES -
NEWSLETTER -
PRESS -

+ + +

BOOKS +
CDROMS +
MAGAZINES +
NEWSLETTER +
PRESS +

Here you'll find the covers of many FreeBSD related publications. If you know of any additional FreeBSD publications/CDROMs -let us know, at www@freebsd.org, so that they may be added to this site. -

+let us know, at www@freebsd.org, so that they may be added to this site. +

Click on any of the graphics to see a larger version. - -

Books

- + +

Books

- +(it was #2, this book was #1). - + - + - - + + - - + - + - + - + - + - + - + -

	This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and +
	This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and others. Among computer books, it is a top-seller in Japan and exceeded the sales of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" when published -(it was #2, this book was #1).
	(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD: Fun and easy Installation")
	(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD: Fun and easy Installation")
	(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD Introductory Kit")
	(Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD Introductory Kit")
	This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "FreeBSD Complete" +
	This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "FreeBSD Complete" with installation guide, manual pages and 2 installation CDs inside. -
	This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "Installing & Running FreeBSD", +
	This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "Installing & Running FreeBSD", a product which contained installation instructions and was shipped with each 2 CD set. It has since been replaced by the larger "FreeBSD Complete" book. -
	This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan. +
	This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan. Its title is "FreeBSD: introduction and applications" and the author is Jian-Da Li. -
	This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan. +
	This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan. Other than the standard installation guide and Japanese environment, it emphasizes system administration and low-level information (such as the boot process, etc.) FreeBSD-2.2.2R and XFree86-3.2 on CDROM. 264 pages, 3,400 yen. -
	The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes +
	The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes history of Unix, a guide to build a Japanese documentation processing system and how to create ports. 2.1.7.1R and XFree86-3.2 in CDROM. 384 pages, 3,000 yen. -
	BSD mit Methode, M. Schulze, B. Roehrig, M. Hoelzer und andere, +
	BSD mit Methode, M. Schulze, B. Roehrig, M. Hoelzer und andere, C&L Computer und Literatur Verlag, 1998, 850 pages. 2 CDROMs, FreeBSD 2.2.6, NetBSD 1.2.1 and 1.3.2, OpenBSD 2.2 and 2.3. DM 98,-. -
	This is the "FreeBSD Install and +
	This is the "FreeBSD Install and utilization manual" from Mainichi Communications. General introduction to FreeBSD from installation to utilization with troubleshooting under the supervision of the user group in Japan. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 PAO and distfiles in CDROM. 472 pages, 3,600yen. -
	The "FreeBSD User's Reference Manual" from +
	The "FreeBSD User's Reference Manual" from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual transtation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of the section 1 of the FreeBSD manual. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 and PAO in CDROM. 1,040 pages, 3,800yen. -
	The "FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual" +
	The "FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual" from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project", the manual translation project by the user group in Japan. Japanese edition of the section 5 and 8 of the FreeBSD manual. 756 pages, 3,300yen. -

- - -

CDROMs

For more about recent releases go to FreeBSD release information -page.

- - +
This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 on +
+ + +

CDROMs

For more about recent releases go to FreeBSD release information +page.

+ + + - + - + - + - + - +FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product. - +with some local additions. - + - + - + - +earlier mistake. - + - + - + - - + + - + - + - + - + - + - + -
This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 on a single CD. This is the only example I have which had cover art. -
This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley, +
This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley, the core technology behind much of FreeBSD. -
The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R, NetBSD-1.0, -XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel.
The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R, NetBSD-1.0, +XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel.
The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs come +
The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs come in a standard jewel box. Contains FreeBSD-2.1R, NetBSD-1.1, XFree86-3.1.2 and 3.1.2A, and FreeBSD(98) kernel (2.0.5). -
This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the +
This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the FreeBSD CDROM. It is a 4 CD set. -
This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging their +
This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging their product line with that of Walnut Creek CDROM. PHT now also produces the -FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product.
This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine. +
This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine. Note the creative cover art! The CD contains the FreeBSD 2.2.1 release -with some local additions.
This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the FreeBSD +
This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the FreeBSD Project and Walnut Creek CDROM were fairly young back then, and you'll probably have little difficulty in spotting the differences in production quality between then and now. -
This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and also the +
This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and also the very last on the 1.x branch (ref USL/Novell lawsuit and settlement). The next release, FreeBSD 1.1.5, was only available on the net. -
This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that almost +
This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that almost all existing examples were systematically tracked down and destroyed. An artwork mishap has this CD dated for the wrong year, and on the spine "January" is also misspelled as "Jaunary", just to increase the embarrassment factor. Ah, the perils of turning in one's artwork just hours before leaving for a trade show. -
This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD. +
This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD. Note that the color scheme has even been changed in the corrected version, something unusual for a fixup and perhaps done to distance it from the -earlier mistake.
The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon - artwork.
The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon + artwork.
The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the 2.1 branch -(the last being 2.1.7).
The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the 2.1 branch +(the last being 2.1.7).
The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD.
The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD.
The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD.
The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last Japanese +
The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD.
The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last Japanese localized version published by WC, responsibility for that product then transitioning to a team led by Tatsumi Hosokawa and sponsored by Pacific Hitech and Laser5. -
The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the 2.1.x +
The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the 2.1.x branch. Done primarily as a security fixup for 2.1.6 -
An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was released). -
An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was released). +
The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2 branch. -
The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2 branch. +
The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD. -
The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD. +
The FreeBSD 3.0 snapshot CD. -
The FreeBSD 3.0 snapshot CD. +
The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML and +
The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML and semi-indexed by thread. This product ran for 2 releases and then stopped with a thud once it became obvious that there was simply too much data to deal with on one CD. Perhaps when DVD becomes more popular... -
+ - -

Magazines

- - + +

Magazines

Cover of Korean UNIX magazine, May 1997 issue. -Also included FreeBSD 2.2.1 with cover CDs. -

+ - + - + - -

	Cover of Korean UNIX magazine, May 1997 issue. +Also included FreeBSD 2.2.1 with cover CDs. +
	UNIX User Magazine +
	UNIX User Magazine November 1996 issue. Also included FreeBSD 2.1.5 on cover CD. -
	This is the "FreeBSD Full Course" special in April 1997's Software +
	This is the "FreeBSD Full Course" special in April 1997's Software Design (published by Gijutsu Hyoron Sha). There are 80 pages of FreeBSD articles covering everything from installation to tracking -current. -
	+
	Quality Unix for FREE, by Brett Glass in Sm@rt Reseller Online September 1998 -

+ + - -

Newsletters

- - +

This is -issue #1 + +

Newsletters

+ + +newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG. + - -

+	This is +issue #1 of the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by -Walnut Creek CDROM. +Walnut Creek CDROM. You can -register to receive it. +register to receive it. Submit articles/make comments by sending email to -newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG. -
-	This is -issue #2 +
+	This is +issue #2 of the FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by -Walnut Creek CDROM. +Walnut Creek CDROM. You can -register to receive it. +register to receive it. Submit articles/make comments by sending email to -newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG. -

+newsletter@FreeBSD.ORG. +

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The BSD Usenet News Searcher have archives of all BSD-related Usenet newsgroups from June 1992 onwards.

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Try connecting to www.yourcountry.freebsd.org (e.g. www.de.freebsd.org for Germany or www.au.freebsd.org for Australia), or select a mirror from the list on the home page. The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

In addition to the mirrors, several non-English web resources are available:

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Submit a Problem Report.

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 or any of the development branches inside it, you may choose any one of following options:

cvsup if you're looking for on-demand, low overhead access using a custom utility (written in Modula-3 no less).

anoncvs if you're looking for on-demand access that has higher overhead than cvsup (in terms of wall time and bytes xferred) but is easier to use for checking out small pieces of the tree and requires nothing more than the cvs tools already bundled with FreeBSD.

CTM if you're looking for very low overhead, batch-mode access (basically, patches through email) access.

The web interface if you're looking to simply browse the repository in search of a specific change or file revision.

Finally, if you've got bandwidth to burn or you prefer / are forced to use FTP, you can simply mirror the CVS repository from ftp.freebsd.org.

Mirrors of the CVS Repository cgi script are available in California, Germany, Japan and Spain (English, Spanish).

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.

Australia

Brisbane, Queensland. HUMBUG (Home Unix Machine - Brisbane User Group) Mailing lists are handled by majordomo@humbug.org.au - announce, general and chat.. More information at the web page. Meetings are held fortnightly at the University of Queensland. Contact president@humbug.org.au for further information.

South Australia. The South Australian FreeBSD Users - Group (SAFUG) was formed in April 1999 and has yet to have an + Group (SAFUG) was formed in April 1999 and has yet to have an inaugural meeting. If you're in the Adelaide area, or just plain curious, check out the web site!

Sydney, NSW. The BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) + HREF="http://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org/">BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) meets in Sydney every two months starting May 1999 and has mailing list members from all over NSW. To join the mailing list send a message to - majordomo@bugs.au.freebsd.org + majordomo@bugs.au.freebsd.org with subscribe bugs in the body of the message.

Victoria. Victoria's FreeBSD Users - Group (VicFUG) is a new user group based in Melbourne. + Group (VicFUG) is a new user group based in Melbourne. You can join the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@itworks.com.au + HREF="mailto:majordomo@itworks.com.au">majordomo@itworks.com.au with subscribe vicfug in the body of the message.

Europe

Denmark The Danish *BSD user group, BSD/DK, is being created. Send + HREF="http://hotel.prosa.dk/bsd-dk/">BSD/DK, is being created. Send mail subscription request to bsd-dk-request@hotel.prosa.dk. No initial meeting planned yet. + >bsd-dk-request@hotel.prosa.dk. No initial meeting planned yet.

Duisburg, Germany The Cosmo-Project is a user group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it isn't a specifically FreeBSD-related group.

Hamburg, Germany The BSDHH (BSD User Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotosbl�te, L�wenstra�e 22 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome.

United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United Kingdom. Please follow the link for details.

North America

Chicago IL The Chicago FreeBSD Users Group (ChiFUG).

The Houston TX (Houston FreeBSD Users Group) formed March 1999. Our goal is to promote and educate Houston computer users on FreeBSD Unix. We meet on the fourth Thursday of the month. The group operates a mailing list at http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd Contact Ingrid Kast Fuller for more information.

Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more information.

Los Angeles CA The Yahoo Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user group.

New Mexico 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.

New York NT D'Artagnan's FreeBSD Users Group.
Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona. Please contact Russell Carter ( rcarter@consys.com) for details.

Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is fully open for businness. I now have the mailing list setup and ready to go. If anyone else here is from the phoenix area please feel free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us.

Reno NV 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.

Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix Group supports every form of UNIX that can be obtained freely. They can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or - by e-mail at: - rifug@entropy.tmok.com
+ HREF="http://users.tmok.com/~rifug">http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or + by e-mail at: + rifug@entropy.tmok.com

San Francisco Bay Area BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) - meets semi-monthly at Silicon Reef. + HREF="http://www.bafug.org"> BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) + meets semi-monthly at Silicon Reef. Those interested in attending should visit the web site or send mail to - the mailing list
+ the mailing list

Seattle WA The Seattle FreeBSD Users Group (SeaFUG) + HREF="http://www.seafug.org/"> Seattle FreeBSD Users Group (SeaFUG) meets on a monthly basis. Those interested in attending should vist the - web site or contact Bill Swingle - for more info.
+ web site or contact Bill Swingle + for more info.

The Tampa Florida users group is now being formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org with 'subscribe' in the body. The first meeting is planned for mid May 1999.

Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group, Arizona.

Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area) FreeBSD User Group is now forming. Please contact Richard Cramer, Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at rcramer@sytex.net to be put on a member distribution list. Initial meeting to be held in May.

Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD user's group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working on our site, but I wanted to get it up as soon as we had it availble. We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more information!

Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is now forming for *BSD, Solaris, SCO, etc. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can be found by going to the web site for WUUG, which is located at http://unix.windsor.on.ca/

Wisconsin 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.

Rest of the world

Israel The Israeli BSD Users Group is an effort to promote the use of *BSD throught the country, and to act as a center of information for all BSD users. It is currently run by FreeBSD users, but all users of bsd Variants are welcome aboard. We have a mailing list, hosted at bsd-il@osem.co.il. To subscribe, simply send mail to majordomo@osem.co.il, with the line "subscribe bsd-il" as the message body.

New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled yet.

FreeBSD Development Projects

In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions.
FreeBSD Security Guide
Security resources available to FreeBSD users: PGP Key for Security Officers, advisories, patches and mailing lists.
Commercial Consulting Services
Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer.

General UNIX Information

The UNIX Reference Desk at Northwestern University

Jeff's Unix Vault

Unix Guru Universe

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Unix Power

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.

Hardware

The comp.answers pc-hardware-faq is a great reference for people building their own machines.

Laptop users looking for PCCARD (aka PCMCIA) support not already provided in the FreeBSD base distribution should see the PAO distribution page for the latest and greatest experimental laptop support.

Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know - lots of information about Intel chips.

Aad Offerman's Chip List - reference material on chips used in PC clones.

ASUS makes motherboards that work well with FreeBSD.

The FreeBSD hardware guide makes some specific recommendations for hardware that's known to work well with FreeBSD.

Related Operating System Projects

NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures.

OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative.

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

Newsgroups

WEB Resources

GNATS Problem Report Database

CVS Repository

User Groups

FreeBSD Development Projects

FreeBSD Security Guide

Commercial Consulting Services

General UNIX Information

The X Window System

Hardware

Related Operating System Projects

Mailing lists

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

Several non-English mailing lists are also available:

Czech -- majordomo@freebsd.cz
German -- majordomo@de.freebsd.org or WWW.
French -- majordomo@freebsd.francenet.fr or WWW.
French -- BSD.fr. Please contact Malartre for more information.

Hungarian -- majordomo@hu.freebsd.org
Indonesian -- id-freebsd-subscribe@freebsd.or.id
Japanese -- majordomo@jp.freebsd.org
Korean -- majordomo@kr.freebsd.org - or WWW + or WWW
Polish -- majordomo@pap.waw.pl
Portuguese -- WWW or listproc@br.freebsd.org
Slovakian -- majordomo@sk.freebsd.org
Spanish -- majordomo@es.freebsd.org

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

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.

The BSD Usenet News Searcher have archives of all BSD-related Usenet newsgroups from June 1992 onwards.

WEB Resources

Our WEB pages remain one of the best sources of information, and are also mirrored at many sites around the world. Try connecting to www.yourcountry.freebsd.org (e.g. www.de.freebsd.org for Germany or www.au.freebsd.org for Australia), or select a mirror from the list on the home page. The same naming convention is also used for FTP servers.

In addition to the mirrors, several non-English web resources are available:

Czech
Chinese FAQ
German
Hungarian
Indonesian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (mirror)
Slovakian
Spanish, FAQ
Russian, FAQ

For information on recent FreeBSD progress and releases, see the Newsflash page.

To register to receive the FreeBSD Newsletter and/or subscribe to the announcement mailing list, please see the Registration page.

GNATS Problem Report Database

Current FreeBSD problem reports are tracked using the GNATS database.

View the open problem reports.

View a problem report by tracker id.

Formulate a specific query.

Submit a Problem Report.

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 or any of the development branches inside it, you may choose any one of following options:

cvsup if you're looking for on-demand, low overhead access using a custom utility (written in Modula-3 no less).

anoncvs if you're looking for on-demand access that has higher overhead than cvsup (in terms of wall time and bytes xferred) but is easier to use for checking out small pieces of the tree and requires nothing more than the cvs tools already bundled with FreeBSD.

CTM if you're looking for very low overhead, batch-mode access (basically, patches through email) access.

The web interface if you're looking to simply browse the repository in search of a specific change or file revision.

Finally, if you've got bandwidth to burn or you prefer / are forced to use FTP, you can simply mirror the CVS repository from ftp.freebsd.org.

Mirrors of the CVS Repository cgi script are available in California, Germany, Japan and Spain (English, Spanish).

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.

Australia

Brisbane, Queensland. HUMBUG (Home Unix Machine - Brisbane User Group) Mailing lists are handled by majordomo@humbug.org.au - announce, general and chat.. More information at the web page. Meetings are held fortnightly at the University of Queensland. Contact president@humbug.org.au for further information.

South Australia. The South Australian FreeBSD Users - Group (SAFUG) was formed in April 1999 and has yet to have an + Group (SAFUG) was formed in April 1999 and has yet to have an inaugural meeting. If you're in the Adelaide area, or just plain curious, check out the web site!

Sydney, NSW. The BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) + HREF="http://www.bugs.au.freebsd.org/">BSD Users Group, Sydney (BUGS) meets in Sydney every two months starting May 1999 and has mailing list members from all over NSW. To join the mailing list send a message to - majordomo@bugs.au.freebsd.org + majordomo@bugs.au.freebsd.org with subscribe bugs in the body of the message.

Victoria. Victoria's FreeBSD Users - Group (VicFUG) is a new user group based in Melbourne. + Group (VicFUG) is a new user group based in Melbourne. You can join the mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@itworks.com.au + HREF="mailto:majordomo@itworks.com.au">majordomo@itworks.com.au with subscribe vicfug in the body of the message.

Europe

Denmark The Danish *BSD user group, BSD/DK, is being created. Send + HREF="http://hotel.prosa.dk/bsd-dk/">BSD/DK, is being created. Send mail subscription request to bsd-dk-request@hotel.prosa.dk. No initial meeting planned yet. + >bsd-dk-request@hotel.prosa.dk. No initial meeting planned yet.

Duisburg, Germany The Cosmo-Project is a user group with a difference. Instead of just meeting, they actively develop projects such as robots. Most users use FreeBSD, but it isn't a specifically FreeBSD-related group.

Hamburg, Germany The BSDHH (BSD User Group Hamburg) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 7.00pm in the Chinese restaurant Lotosbl�te, L�wenstra�e 22 in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Most members are FreeBSD users, although users of all BSD flavors are welcome.

United Kingdom The FreeBSD UKUG (FreeBSD UK User's Group) exists for the benefit of FreeBSD users in the United Kingdom. Please follow the link for details.

North America

Chicago IL The Chicago FreeBSD Users Group (ChiFUG).

The Houston TX (Houston FreeBSD Users Group) formed March 1999. Our goal is to promote and educate Houston computer users on FreeBSD Unix. We meet on the fourth Thursday of the month. The group operates a mailing list at http://www.houfug.org/mailman/listinfo/hou-freebsd Contact Ingrid Kast Fuller for more information.

Kansas KULUA (Kansas Unix & Linux Users Association) is a Free Unix user group based in Lawrence, Kansas, but with users throughout eastern Kansas and western Missouri. We have about 120 members and meet biweekly. Visit the web site or email kulua@kulua.org for more information.

Los Angeles CA The Yahoo Club group is a foundation for a Los Angeles based BSD user group.

New Mexico 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.

New York NT D'Artagnan's FreeBSD Users Group.
Northern Arizona Yavapai Free Unix Users Group is now forming for *BSD/Linux, etc., users in Northern Arizona. Please contact Russell Carter ( rcarter@consys.com) for details.

Phoenix AZ The Phoenix BSD Users group is fully open for businness. I now have the mailing list setup and ready to go. If anyone else here is from the phoenix area please feel free to join in http://bsd.phoenix.az.us.

Reno NV 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.

Rhode Island The Rhode Island Free Unix Group supports every form of UNIX that can be obtained freely. They can be contacted at: http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or - by e-mail at: - rifug@entropy.tmok.com
+ HREF="http://users.tmok.com/~rifug">http://users.tmok.com/~rifug or + by e-mail at: + rifug@entropy.tmok.com

San Francisco Bay Area BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) - meets semi-monthly at Silicon Reef. + HREF="http://www.bafug.org"> BAFUG (Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group) + meets semi-monthly at Silicon Reef. Those interested in attending should visit the web site or send mail to - the mailing list
+ the mailing list

Seattle WA The Seattle FreeBSD Users Group (SeaFUG) + HREF="http://www.seafug.org/"> Seattle FreeBSD Users Group (SeaFUG) meets on a monthly basis. Those interested in attending should vist the - web site or contact Bill Swingle - for more info.
+ web site or contact Bill Swingle + for more info.

The Tampa Florida users group is now being formed. Interested parties can join the mailing list by sending mail to bsd-tug-request@bangheadhere.org with 'subscribe' in the body. The first meeting is planned for mid May 1999.

Tucson AZ TFUG: Tucson Free Unix Group, Arizona.

Washington DC (DC Metropolitan Area) FreeBSD User Group is now forming. Please contact Richard Cramer, Sytex Access Ltd. at 703-425-2515, or preferred, email at rcramer@sytex.net to be put on a member distribution list. Initial meeting to be held in May.

Wichita, Kansas: A new FreeBSD user's group has been created in Wichita, Ks. We are fairly new and working on our site, but I wanted to get it up as soon as we had it availble. We do not currently meet. Visit our site http://wafug.dynip.com or E-mail the group organizer (ben177@yahoo.com) for more information!

Windsor, Ontario The Windsor Unix Users Group (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is now forming for *BSD, Solaris, SCO, etc. This is not specifically a FreeBSD user group, but we do already have members running FreeBSD. The group operates a mailing list (wuug-list@unixpower.org). More information can be found by going to the web site for WUUG, which is located at http://unix.windsor.on.ca/

Wisconsin 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.

Rest of the world

Israel The Israeli BSD Users Group is an effort to promote the use of *BSD throught the country, and to act as a center of information for all BSD users. It is currently run by FreeBSD users, but all users of bsd Variants are welcome aboard. We have a mailing list, hosted at bsd-il@osem.co.il. To subscribe, simply send mail to majordomo@osem.co.il, with the line "subscribe bsd-il" as the message body.

New Zealand The New Zealand FreeBSD User's group is located in Wellington. No meetings have been scheduled yet.

FreeBSD Development Projects

In addition to the mainstream development path of FreeBSD, a number of developer groups are working on the cutting edge to expand FreeBSD's range of applications in new directions.
FreeBSD Security Guide
Security resources available to FreeBSD users: PGP Key for Security Officers, advisories, patches and mailing lists.
Commercial Consulting Services
Whether you are just starting out with FreeBSD, or need to complete a large project, a consultant or two might be your answer.

General UNIX Information

The UNIX Reference Desk at Northwestern University

Jeff's Unix Vault

Unix Guru Universe

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Unix Power

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.

Hardware

The comp.answers pc-hardware-faq is a great reference for people building their own machines.

Laptop users looking for PCCARD (aka PCMCIA) support not already provided in the FreeBSD base distribution should see the PAO distribution page for the latest and greatest experimental laptop support.

Intel Secrets -- What Intel Doesn't Want You To Know - lots of information about Intel chips.

Aad Offerman's Chip List - reference material on chips used in PC clones.

ASUS makes motherboards that work well with FreeBSD.

The FreeBSD hardware guide makes some specific recommendations for hardware that's known to work well with FreeBSD.

Related Operating System Projects

NetBSD is another free 4.4BSD-Lite based operating system which runs on several different architectures.

OpenBSD is another 4.4BSD derivative.

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.

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!

Distribution Sites

The official sources for FreeBSD are:

Anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD:

FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE

FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE

Anonymous ftp from one of the numerous mirror sites

On CD-ROM from Walnut Creek CDROM

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.
If you're interesting in a purely experimental snapshot release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 4.0-current), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the daily snapshot - server FTP site. This site also contains daily snapshots of + server FTP site. This site also contains daily snapshots of the 2.2-stable branch.

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.

Packages for FreeBSD-current

Packages for FreeBSD 2.2-stable

Packages for FreeBSD 3.2-stable

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.

Ports for FreeBSD-current

Ports for FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE

WWW interface to Ports for FreeBSD-current

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.

Commercial products for FreeBSD 2.2.8

Commercial vendors supporting FreeBSD

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As management understanding of the Year 2000 problem (aka, "The Millennium Bug") increases, more and more companies are demanding official statements from the vendors of their hardware and software as to how their product will handle the year 2000 date rollover.

Organizations that use unix and unix like operating systems such as FreeBSD are already one step ahead of the problem. FreeBSD will properly maintain time long after year 2000 passes.

Background information

(This section based on the text from the Linux Y2K compliance page)

As with all Unix and Unixlike operating systems, time and dates in FreeBSD are represented internally as the number of seconds since the 1st of January 1970 (the Unix "epoch"). Currently, that figure is stored as a 32 bit integer, and will run out part way through 2038. By then we should (hopefully) be using a counter of 64 bits (or greater) which should be good until the end of the universe.

Note that the OS being Y2K compliant will not fix errant applications that are not Y2K compliant.

Note also that the OS expects to read the current date and time from the CMOS clock of your computer. Not all of these devices correctly handle the year 2000. You are advised to test each platform individually to ensure that your hardware clock behaves correctly when going from 1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap year.

What you can do

FreeBSD will continue to properly maintain time well into the next century. Third party applications, however, might not. Your best defense against year 2000 issues is a good offense. Listening to stories claiming the coming meltdown of the world as we know it are not the way to solve the millennium bug. Nor is waiting until the last minute. The FreeBSD Project recommends that your organization apply sound system administration principles as the millennium approaches.

There are tests that you can perform to see how your system will respond. Set your clock to a few minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve and watch the system time. Your system should display the year as 2000 and not 1900. If the year is displayed incorrectly, then you will have plenty of time to update your hardware. Operating your organizations information systems under their normal daily load with the clock set forward can provide valuable insight into your vulnerablility to year 2000 issues.

FreeBSD Year 2000 Statement

"After extensive analysis and testing, we believe that FreeBSD is 100% Y2K compliant. In the unlikely event that something has been overlooked, we will do our best to fix it as soon as possible."

David Greenman
Principal Architect, The FreeBSD project

Fixed problems

The following Y2K problems have been identified and fixed in FreeBSD.

misc/1380

Several programs have a hardcoded 19%d in responses for the year. Affected programs include: yacc, ftpd, and make. [Fixed: yacc v1.2 1999/01/18; ftpd v1.7 1996/08/05; make v1.4 1996/10/06]

conf/1382

The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line for the message of the day relies on the year not going past 1999.[Fixed v1.21 1996/10/24]

misc/3465

The etc/namedb/make-localhost command generates the DNS serial number as YYMMDD. In the year 2000, this will be generated as 1YYMMDD.[Fixed v1.2 1997/08/11]

gnu/4930 and gnu/8321

groff tmac macros have hardcoded 19 for generating some dates. [Fixed: tmac.e v1.3 1998/12/06; doc-common v1.10 1999/01/19]

bin/9323

In its obsolescent form, touch doesn't treat the two digit year year specification correctly. Years in the range 00-68 are treated as 1900-1968 instead of 2000-2068.[Fixed v1.7 1999/01/05]
-
xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c
+
xntpd/parse/util/dcfd.c

The leap year calculations for the number of days in a year, and the conversion of DCF77 time to seconds since the Epoch were wrong. These errors affected all years.[Fixed v1.6 1999/01/12]

tar/getdate.y

Function Convert() was hard-coded for two digit years in range 70-99. Now adjusted to allow two digit years for 1970-2069. The function does not allow for century non-leap years - y2k1 alert! [Fixed v1.4 1999/01/12]

fetch/http.c

The HTTP protocol includes an obsolete date format which uses a two-digit year. Previous versions of fetch would interpret all such dates in the 1900s; subsequent to this revision, the pivot described in RFC 2068 is employed, which causes two-digit years to be interpreted as always belonging to the current century unless they would be 50 or more years in the future. Since the HTTP servers which use this obsolete format are no longer widespread, this is not expected to have a significant impact.[Fixed v1.24 1999/01/15]

misc/9500

The `edithook' script in the CVSROOT directory uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01. [Fixed v1.2 1999/01/17]

bin/9501

Several cvs contrib files are not Y2K compliant. The log.pl and sccs2rcs.csh scripts prepend `19' to the year resulting in a display of 19100 for 2000. The log_accum.pl script uses a two digit year in one place and in another place assumes that the tm_year is year within century rather than years since 1900. [Fixed: log.pl v1.2 1999/01/15; sccs2rcs.csh v1.3 1999/01/15]

bin/9502

The groff number register `yr' is assigned from a (struct tm).tm_year and therefore represents the number of years since 1900, not the year within the century (see definition in troff/input.cc). [Fixed, now set mod 100, input.cc V1.2 1999/06/03]

bin/9503

PicoBSD's simple_httpd uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01.[Fixed v1.2 1999/01/16]

bin/9505

Adduser uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100/01/01 for 2000-JAN-01.[Fixed v1.42 1999/01/15]

bin/9506

Cron uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100 for 2000. [Fixed v1.7 1999/01/16]

bin/9507

tcpslice(8) uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100y01m01d... for 2000-JAN-01. For compatibility, use a two-digit year until 2000.[Fixed v1.8 1999/01/20]

Problematic applications

ports/7681

TkDesk 1.0 uses a hardcoded 19 in the file listing window. A file with a date > 2000 is displayed with a year looking like "191xx" where xx is the last two numbers of the real date. This bug has been fixed in version 1.1.[Port updated 1998/10/10]

ports/9295

INN 1.7.2 suffers from 2 Y2K related problems. One occurs when pulling news (-f option to nntpget) and the other relates to the Expire header with relative dates past 2000. [Both INN ports upgraded to INN 2.2 1999/05/02]

ports/9298

Knews suffers from 2 Y2K related problems. One occurs during the generation of the NNTP NEWGROUPS command. The other occurs because knews doesn't think that 2000 is a leap year. Both are fixed in knews-1.0b.1.[Port updated 1999/01/07]

ports/9300

Nntp-t5 suffers from a Y2K problem during the generation of the NEWNEWS command.[Port patched 1999/01/05]

ports/11144

The tiff port has a hardcoded 19xx. While this is in the contrib section (for converting Sun rasterfile format to TIFF), and not installed by default, this should be patched. [Port patched 1999/04/18]

ports/11145

The dgs port suffers from the same TIFF related problem as the tiff port. [contrib routine for converting Sun rasterfiles to TIFF] [Port patched 1999/04/18]

More information

If you have further questions about FreeBSD's year 2000 compliance, or you have discovered an application running under FreeBSD that is not Y2K compliant, please contact the project at freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG.
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