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Remove broken link to bsdmall.com now that BSDMall and FreeBSDMall are

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finally united.

Add information about FreeBSD-derived projects FreeSBIE and PC-BSD on
two of the second level pages of the FreeBSD website.

Discussed with:	 rwatson, matt
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Murray Stokely 2007-10-03 23:35:15 +00:00
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svn path=/www/; revision=30864
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/projects/newbies.sgml,v 1.54 2007/06/28 08:14:51 jkois Exp $">
<!ENTITY title 'Resources for Newbies'>
<!ENTITY % navinclude.docs "INCLUDE">
<!ENTITY url.articles "&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles">
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<ul>
<li><a href="#web-site">Using the FreeBSD web site</a></li>
<li><a href="#fbsd">Learning about FreeBSD</a></li>
<li><a href="#derived">Learning about FreeBSD-derived projects</a></li>
<li><a href="#unix">Learning about &unix;</a></li>
<li><a href="#xwin">Learning about the X Window System</a></li>
<li><a href="#people">Helping other people</a></li>
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tutorial.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="derived">Learning about FreeBSD-derived projects</a></h2>
<p>FreeBSD is widely used as a building block for other commercial
and open-source operating systems. Some of the most widely used
and publically available systems are listed below.</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PC-BSD</a> is a FreeBSD
derivative with a graphical installer and impressive desktop
tools aimed at ease of use for the casual computer
user.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.freesbie.org/">FreeSBIE</a> is a
LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It works directly from a CD, without
touching your hard drive. It also includes a simple and easily
extendable toolkit used for the creation of embedded
images.</p></li>
<li><p>Apple's <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx">Mac OS
X</a>
is <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/">based
in part</a> on FreeBSD and includes a rich &unix; foundation in
addition to the proprietary Apple user interface.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="unix">Learning about &unix;</a></h2>
<p>Many of the problems we have as newbies come from being unfamiliar

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/where.sgml,v 1.88 2007/01/10 19:51:44 marcel Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/where.sgml,v 1.89 2007/02/24 08:39:20 blackend Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "Getting FreeBSD">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.download "INCLUDE">
<!ENTITY url.rel "ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases">
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<h2>Buying FreeBSD</h2>
<p>FreeBSD can be acquired on CD-ROM or DVD from <a
href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a>, <a
href="http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html">BSD Mall</a>, or
href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a>, or
one of the other <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors.html">CD-ROM
and DVD Publishers</a>.</p>
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testers only, then please see the <a
href="&base;/snapshots/">&os; Snapshot Releases</a> page.</p>
<a name="derived"></a>
<h2>FreeBSD-derived Operating System Distributions</h2>
<p>FreeBSD is widely used as a building block for other commercial
and open-source operating systems. The projects below are
widely used and of particular interest to FreeBSD users.</p>
<ul>
<li><p><a href="http://www.pcbsd.org">PC-BSD</a> is a FreeBSD
derivative with a graphical installer and impressive desktop
tools aimed at ease of use for the casual computer
user.</p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://www.freesbie.org/">FreeSBIE</a> is a
LiveCD based on FreeBSD. It works directly from a CD, without
touching your hard drive. It also includes a simple and easily
extendable toolkit used for the creation of embedded
images.</p></li>
</ul>
<a name="apps"></a>
<h2>Applications and Utility Software</h2>