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<!ENTITY title "Getting FreeBSD">
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&header;
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<a name="releases"></a>
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<h2><a href="&base;/releases/index.html">Release Information</a></h2>
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<p>Detailed descriptions of past, present, and future releases. Look here
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first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is.</p>
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<a name="install"></a>
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<h2><a href="handbook/install.html">Installing FreeBSD</a></h2>
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<p>There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation
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from CDROM, floppy disk, an MS-DOS partition, magnetic tape, anonymous
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ftp, and NFS. Please read through the <a
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href="handbook/install.html">installation guide</a> before downloading
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the entire FreeBSD distribution. If you are installing on a machine
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connected to the Internet, you may only need to download a single
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installation disk image!</p>
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<a name="distribution"></a>
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<h2>Distribution Sites</h2>
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<p>The official sources for FreeBSD are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Anonymous ftp from <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD">ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD</a>:
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<ul>
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<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/&rel.current;-RELEASE">FreeBSD &rel.current;-RELEASE/alpha</a></li>
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<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/&rel.current;-RELEASE">FreeBSD &rel.current;-RELEASE/i386</a></li>
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<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/">FreeBSD ISO-IMAGES/i386</a></li>
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<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/">FreeBSD ISO-IMAGES/alpha</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li>Anonymous ftp from one of the numerous <a
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href="handbook/mirrors.html"><strong>mirror sites</strong></a></li>
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<li>On CDROM from
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<a href="http://www.freebsdmall.com/">FreeBSD Mall</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>If you plan on getting FreeBSD via ftp, please check the listing of <a
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href="handbook/mirrors.html"><strong>mirror sites</strong></a> in the
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handbook to see if there is a site closer to you. For more information
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about past, present and future releases in general, please visit the <a
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href="releases/index.html">release information page</a>.</p>
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<p>If you're interested in a purely experimental <strong>snapshot</strong>
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release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 5.0-current), aimed at developers and
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bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the <a
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href="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/">daily snapshot
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server</a> FTP site.</p>
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<a name="apps"></a>
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<h2>Applications and Utility Software</h2>
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<h3>The Packages collection</h3>
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<p>The FreeBSD packages collection is a diverse collection of utility and
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application software that has been ported to FreeBSD. The packages are
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pre-compiled binaries ready to drop into your system and run.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/packages">Packages for FreeBSD-current</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/2.2-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 2.2-stable</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/3.0-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 3-stable</a></li>
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<li><a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/4.0-stable/packages">Packages for FreeBSD 4-stable</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3>The Ports collection</h3>
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<p>The Ports collection is like the packages collection, but the necessary
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patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided instead of
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compiled binaries. For software with important configuration that must
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be done at compile time, the "port" version may be more useful
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than the "package" version.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/">FreeBSD Ports
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collection</a></li>
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<li><a href="ports/index.html">WWW interface
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to Ports collection</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>For information about how <em>you</em> can contribute <em>your</em>
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favorite piece of software to the port collection, have a look at <em><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html">The Porter's Handbook</a></em> and
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the <em><a href="handbook/contrib.html">Contributing to
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FreeBSD</a></em> chapter in
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the <a href="handbook"><em>FreeBSD handbook</em></a>.</p>
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<h3>Commercial software</h3>
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<p>Beginning with FreeBSD <a href="releases/index.html">Release 2.0.5</a>, FreeBSD
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includes demo versions of some commercial as well as some shareware
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products. In addition to the demos available in the FreeBSD
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distribution, a number of other commercial vendors offer software
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products specifically for FreeBSD.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="commercial/commercial.html">Commercial vendors supporting
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FreeBSD</a></li>
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</ul>
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