Welcome to the FreeBSD archive!
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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/
