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<h2>The Community</h2>
<p>&os; is a community-driven operating system despite it being
sponsored corporately. &os; has active mailing lists,
to a partial degree sponsored corporately. &os; has active mailing lists,
forums, and IRC channels where experienced users and
developers are always willing to help the less
experienced.</p>
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is an expected feature for any operating system.</p>
<p>Stability in &os; means much more than that. It means that
upgrading the system doesn't require upgrading the user.
upgrading the system does not require upgrading the user.
Configuration interfaces do change over time, but only when
there is a good reason. If you learned how to use &os; in
2000, most of your knowledge would still be relevant.</p>
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<p>Unlike some other systems, &os; maintains a clean division
between the base system and third-party ports and packages.
All third-party software goes in /usr/local, so if you want to
repurpose a machine then it's trivial to simply delete all
repurpose a machine, it is trivial to simply delete all
installed packages and then start installing the ones that you
want.</p>
<p>The pkg tool makes working with binary packages
<p>The pkg(8) tool makes working with binary packages
even easier, although source installs are still supported for
people who want the level of configurability that this
implies.</p>
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<ul>
<li>Jails, allowing you to run applications or entire systems
in a sandbox that can't access the rest of the system. With
in a sandbox that cannot access the rest of the system. With
tools like ezjail and ZFS you can instantly create a new
jail with a clone of an existing system, using a tiny amount
of disk space, and run untrusted code inside it.</li>
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<li>Security event auditing, using the BSM standard.</li>
</ul>
<p>And, of course, all of the standard features that you'd
expect from a modern &unix; system including IPSec, SSH, and so
<p>And, of course, all of the standard features that are
expected from a modern &unix; system including IPSec, SSH, and so
on.</p>
<h2>ZFS</h2>
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compression, and no need to decide partition sizes on install.
Using ZFS for a few days makes going back to a more
traditional volume manager painful. If you want to test
something with ZFS, then it's trivial to just create a
something with ZFS, it is trivial to just create a
snapshot and roll back if it didn't work.</p>
<p>If you're using jails, then ZFS lets you clone an existing
jail in under a second, irrespective of how big the jail
<p>ZFS lets you clone an existing
jail in under a second, no matter how big the jail
itself is.</p>
<h2>GEOM</h2>
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<p>Now, &os; has low-latency sound mixing with per-application
volume controls and full support for the OSS 4 APIs out of the
box. There's no need to configure a userspace sound daemon.
box. There is no need to configure a userspace sound daemon.
The same audio APIs that were used a decade ago still work on
&os;, including some compatibility modes to allow
applications that try to manipulate the global volume to only
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This base system can then be extended easily. If you want to
run KDE or GNOME, then just install the metapackage for the
version that you prefer. If you want a headless server, then
it's equally easy to install the server tools that you want.</p>
it is equally easy to install the server tools that you want.</p>
<p>It's easy to run the &os; installer via a serial port and to
configure the entire system from the terminal. It's also easy
<p>It is easy to run the &os; installer via a serial port and to
configure the entire system from the terminal. It is also easy
to install and use an existing desktop environment. The
decisions about the kind of system you want to use are left to
you.</p>
<p>If you're deploying &os; in a corporate environment, then
it's very easy to customise both the base system and the set
<p>If you are deploying &os; in a corporate environment, then
it is very easy to customise both the base system and the set
of installed packages for your specific requirements. The
build system provides numerous tuneable variables allowing you
to build exactly the base system that meets your needs.</p>

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href="mailto:freebsd@lists.enderunix.org">freebsd@lists.enderunix.org</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, <a
<p>If you create other FreeBSD mailing lists, please <a
href="&base;/mailto.html">let us know about them</a>.</p>

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&lt;<a href="mailto:doc@FreeBSD.org">doc@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;,
Wolfram Schneider &lt;<a href="mailto:wosch@FreeBSD.org">wosch@FreeBSD.org</a>&gt;</p>
<p><b>Synopsis:</b>Modify the CGI script ports.cgi
<p><b>Synopsis:</b> Modify the CGI script ports.cgi
and the script portindex to use the Perl <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tom/portpm/">FreeBSD::Ports</a>
modules. These modules also need thorough testing.</p>

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quirks.</p>
<p>In addition, FreeBSD will be the first exposure to a Unix-like
operating system for many of its users, so the availability of high
operating system for some of its users, so the availability of high
quality, accurate documentation is paramount.</p>
<p>The FreeBSD Documentation Project exists to help fill this gap. There

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<p>Questions or suggestions about our documentation (<a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">Handbook</a>, <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html">FAQ</a>, <a
href="&base;/docs.html">Books &amp; Articles</a>) should be addressed to the
href="&base;/docs.html">Books &amp; Articles</a>, and so forth) should be addressed to the
FreeBSD Documentation Project mailing list, <a
href="mailto:freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>

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<p>The latest &os; releases are available <a
href="&enbase;/where.html">here</a>. Before you begin,
carefully read the <a
please carefully read the <a
href="&url.books;/handbook/bsdinstall.html">installation
instructions</a>.</p>
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offer another support channel. Many users have written various
tutorials and lots of new users receive help there.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="&base;/search/search.html">Search</a> the
<li><p>You can <a href="&base;/search/search.html">search</a> the
Handbook and FAQ, the whole web site, or the &os; mailing list
archives.</p></li>
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user.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.pfsense.org">pfSense</a> is a &os;
free network security solution, based on &os;. pfSense
based network security solution. pfSense
software, with the help of the package system, is able to
provide the same functionality or more of common commercial
firewalls, without any of the artificial limitations. It has

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</term>
<term>
<text>CVS Repository</text>
<text>Source Code Repository</text>
<destination>&base;/developers/cvs.html</destination>
</term>
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</item>
<item>
<text>CVS Repository</text>
<text>Source Code Repository</text>
<destination>&base;/developers/cvs.html</destination>
</item>

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formats including CD (disc1), DVD (dvd1), and Network Install
(bootonly) sized ISO
Disc Images, as well as regular and mini USB memory stick
images. Later versions of &os; are also offered as prebuilt
images. Recent versions of &os; are also offered as prebuilt
expandable Virtual Machine images, and as SD Card images for embedded
platforms.</p>
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impressive desktop tools aimed at ease of use for the casual computer
user.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.pfsense.org">pfSense</a> is a free,
open source customized distribution of &os; tailored for
<li><p><a href="http://www.pfsense.org">pfSense</a> is a
&os; based customized distribution tailored for
use as a firewall and router.</p></li>
</ul>
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<p>The &os; Ports Collection is a diverse collection of utility
and application software that has been ported to &os;.</p>
<p>See <a href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html">
<strong>Installing Applications: Packages and Ports</strong></a>
in the Handbook.</p>
<ul class="txtdownloadlist">
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/">&os;
Ports Collection</a></li>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/">Download the &os;
Ports Collection framework</a></li>
<li><a href="&base;/ports/index.html">Web interface to the Ports
Collection</a></li>

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<li><a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/">Foundation</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/">Monetary Donations</a></li>
<li><a href="&base;/donations/">Hardware Donations</a></li>
<li><a href="&base;/donations/index.html#systems">Hardware Donations</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>