Welcome to the FreeBSD archive! ------------------------------- Here you will find the official releases of FreeBSD, along with the ports collection and other FreeBSD-related material. We encourage you to visit the FreeBSD home page at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Contents of this directory: --------------------------- releases/ISO-IMAGES/ The official FreeBSD release ISO images for CD-ROM and DVD; useful for installing new machines (virtual or otherwise). releases/${MACHINE}/${MACHINE_ARCH}/*-RELEASE/ The official FreeBSD releases as individual tarballs to download; useful for jail hosting, updating machines in situ, etc. Make sure to look in the ${MACHINE_ARCH} sub-directory for the most recent releases (e.g., releases/amd64/amd64); this is a change from the earlier ${ARCH} naming scheme (e.g., releases/amd64). snapshots/${MACHINE}/${MACHINE_ARCH}/*-{STABLE,CURRENT}/ Intermittently updated snapshots of -CURRENT and selected -STABLE branches. A good way to seed a development machine or test in-progress FreeBSD features. doc/ Documentation for FreeBSD including the FAQ and the FreeBSD handbook. Both these documents are available in hypertext form from http://www.FreeBSD.org/ ports/ports/ A tarball of the FreeBSD ports collection. It contains the makefiles, patches and configuration scripts necessary to make the applications available from the distfiles cache (http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/) compile and run on FreeBSD. If your FreeBSD machine is connected to the Internet, you need not download the application source code from distfiles/ because the makefile will automatically fetch it for you. A better way to update your ports collection is to use the portsnap tool: see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html for more information. ports/${ARCH}/ The FreeBSD package collection for supported architectures of the FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. These are pre-compiled applications ready to install with the pkg_add command. Note that these packages are "frozen" to the state of the package collection at the time of release. For newer packages and branches, pkg(8) must be used instead and are not available from this mirror. pkg(8) uses packages from the official FreeBSD pkg CDN. Due to very high requirements of bandwidth, storage and administration this CDN is maintained by the FreeBSD Cluster Administrators and not available for public mirroring. ports/distfiles/ Relocated to: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/ ports/local-distfiles/ Relocated to: http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/local-distfiles/ 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. NOTE: most of these tools are very old, possibly obsolete, and will be of limited utility to most users. 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: ------------ NOTE: Currently The FreeBSD Project is not looking for additional mirrors. You can find information on setting up a FreeBSD mirror here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/hubs/