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Welcome to the FreeBSD archive!
-------------------------------
Here you will find the official releases of FreeBSD, along with
the ports and packages collection and other FreeBSD-related
material. For those who have World Wide Web access, we encourage
you to visit the FreeBSD home page at:
http://www.FreeBSD.org/
Contents of this directory:
---------------------------
releases/${ARCH}/*-RELEASE/
The official FreeBSD releases.
See README.TXT files in these directories for more information.
The releases/${ARCH}/ISO-IMAGES directory also contains ISO 9660
(+ rockridge extensions) installation CD images for the latest
releases. Please consider supporting the project and purchasing
a FreeBSD CDROM from http://www.freebsdmall.com rather than burning
your own ISO images.
snapshots/${ARCH}/*-YYMMDD-SNAP/
Any "snapshot" tests of an upcoming release. YYMMDD represents
the year, month and day of the snapshot. These are not frequently
updated on this site for load reasons. For the latest snapshots,
see ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD instead.
FreeBSD-current/
This contains files relating to FreeBSD-current, which is
the active development version of FreeBSD. It is *strongly*
advised that you be familiar with UNIX development in general
and FreeBSD in particular before running this branch.
FreeBSD-stable/
This contains files relating to FreeBSD-stable, the stable
code branch of FreeBSD.
development/FreeBSD-CVS/
This contains the FreeBSD CVS repository. It is intended for
use by developers. However, a better way to update your CVS
repository is with the cvsup tool. See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
for more information.
doc/
Documentation for FreeBSD including the FAQ and the FreeBSD
handbook. Both these documents are available in hypertext
form from http://www.FreeBSD.org/
ports/ports/
A snapshot of the FreeBSD ports collection. It contains
makefiles, patches and configuration scripts necessary to make
the applications in the distfiles/ directory compile and run
on FreeBSD. If your FreeBSD machine is connected to the
Internet, you need not download the application source code
from distfiles/ because the makefile will automatically fetch
it for you. A better way to update your ports collection is to use
the cvsup tool: see
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
for more information.
ports/${ARCH}/
The FreeBSD package collection for supported architectures and
FreeBSD branches. These are pre-compiled applications ready
to install with the pkg_add command. Packages for recent
releases are also included, but are not updated and are
"frozen" to the state of the package collection at the time
of release.
ports/distfiles/
ports/local_distfiles/
Original source code distribution files for applications included
in the ports collection.
tools/
A collection of useful tools for people installing FreeBSD.
This includes MS-DOS tools such as RAWRITE used for
making installation disks, FIPS for splitting an MS-DOS
partition and a couple boot managers to allow easy booting on
computers with more than one operating system installed.
Mirror Sites:
-------------
The mirroring of FreeBSD distributions from this location is handled by
mapping each FreeBSD mirror into a common "namespace" which can be said
to follow this rule:
ftp://ftp[n][.domain].FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD
Where "n" is an optional, logical site number (when you have more than one
FTP server for a domain) and ".domain" is an optional domain, specifying
which particular region of the world you're interested in. Examples:
ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD [3rd logical ftp mirror]
ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD [primary French mirror]
ftp://ftp4.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD [4th logical German mirror]
Logical site assignments are dynamic, with the "fastest, best connected"
mirrors having the lowest logical numbers. The DNS administrators are
expected to keep this true as mirror sites are created or retired.
New Mirrors:
------------
If you create a new mirror of these FreeBSD distributions and wish to
make it more generally available, you should send mail to
hostmaster@FreeBSD.org and ask that your site be added to the
global logical namespace map (ftp://ftp[n].FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD).
If the mirror is in a subdomain then mail must ALSO be sent to
hostmaster@domain.FreeBSD.org (where domain is your country's domain
designator) since each country is responsible for and "owns"
its own local DNS administration for domain.FreeBSD.org.
It also goes without saying that should you shut down a mirror
after so registering it, you're expect to send notice to these
addresses again so that the namespace can be updated.
Finally, you must make sure that all FreeBSD distributions are available
under the pub/FreeBSD hierarchy, as they are at ftp.FreeBSD.org. This
can be a symbolic link or an actual directory, just so long as
the URL ``ftp://ftp[n][.domain].FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD'' works
for your site (with appropriate values for "n" and ".domain").
That is an important requirement for automating the process of locating
and loading distributions from FreeBSD mirrors.
o What if my country does not have its own freebsd.org subdomain?
If that is your situation, you might well consider becoming
the DNS administrator for your country. That person is responsible
for the day-to-day administration of ``somedomain.FreeBSD.org''
and should both be skilled in DNS setup and maintainence *and*
be contactable most days of the year since, essentially, any ftp or
www site in that country will be relying on the DNS administrator
to register and maintain the name space for the entire nation.
If you think you're qualified and there is no existing FreeBSD.org
subdomain for your country, please send email to the FreeBSD Hostmaster
(hostmaster@FreeBSD.org) and include details on your DNS server's IP
address and contact information for the DNS administrator. As mentioned
above, you should also make sure that the hostmaster@yourdomain.FreeBSD.org
alias reaches the DNS administator since that address will be used by others
to report problems or submit new entries to the regional subdomain.