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| 3 | 0.0 Preface | |
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| 6 | Welcome to the FreeBSD 1.1 FAQ! This document tries to answer some of | |
| 7 | the most frequently asked questions about FreeBSD 1.1 (or later, unless | |
| 8 | specifically indicated). If there's something you're having trouble | |
| 9 | with and you just don't see it here, then please send mail to: | |
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| 11 | freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com | |
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| 14 | Some of the instructions here will also refer to auxilliary utilities | |
| 89ed80ea | 15 | in the /usr/src/contrib/FAQ directory. CDROM purchasers and net folks who've |
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16 | grabbed the FreeBSD 1.1 `srcdist' will have these files. If you don't have |
| 17 | the source distribution, then you can either grab the whole thing from: | |
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| 19 | freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-1.1 | |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | Or you can grab only those files you're interested in straight out of the | |
| 22 | FreeBSD-current distribution in: | |
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| 24 | freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src | |
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26 | 0.0.1 What is FreeBSD? |
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| 28 | FreeBSD is a UN*X type operating system based on William Jolitz's port | |
| 29 | of UCB's Networking Release 2 to the i386, 386BSD. It is no longer | |
| 30 | safe to say that FreeBSD is only 386BSD with the patchkit applied! There | |
| 31 | have been large additions and bug fixes made through out the whole system. | |
| 32 | Here are some of the highlights of FreeBSD: | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | More robust device drivers and more of them | |
| 35 | SysV IPC | |
| 36 | Shared Libraries (Dynamic) | |
| 37 | Improved virtual memory code | |
| 38 | Addition of other utilities and applications | |
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| 41 | 0.0.2 What are the FreeBSD mailing lists, and how can I get on them? | |
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| 43 | Here are a list of FreeBSD mailing lists. For more information, please send | |
| 44 | mail to majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com with a message body of help. | |
| 45 | ||
| 46 | freebsd-hackers: Useful for persons wishing to work on the internals. | |
| 47 | freebsd-questions: General questions on FreeBSD. | |
| 48 | freebsd-bugs: Where bugs should be sent. | |
| 49 | freebsd-commit: This list carries the commit messages for freefall. Useful | |
| 50 | for tracking ongoing work. | |
| 51 | freebsd-scsi: Mailing list for SCSI developers. | |
| 52 | freebsd-current: This list is for persons wishing to run FreeBSD-current | |
| 53 | and carries announcements and discussions on current. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | 0.0.3 What are the various FreeBSD news groups? | |
| 56 | ||
| 57 | Presently there are no groups dedicated to FreeBSD, you may find the | |
| 58 | following groups useful. | |
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| 60 | comp.os.386bsd.announce: For announcements | |
| 61 | comp.os.386bsd.questions: For questions | |
| 62 | comp.os.386bsd.development: For working on the internals | |
| 63 | comp.os.386bsd.bugs: About bugs | |
| 64 | comp.os.386bsd.misc: For items that don't fit anywhere else | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | NOTE: These groups cover the *BSDs (FreeBSD, NetBSD, 386BSD). | |
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