General lists: The following are general lists which anyone is free (and encouraged) to join:
List Purpose ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freebsd-advocacy FreeBSD Evangelism freebsd-announce Important events and project milestones freebsd-bugs Bug reports freebsd-chat Non-technical items related to the FreeBSD community freebsd-current Discussion concerning the use of FreeBSD-current freebsd-isp Issues for Internet Service Providers using FreeBSD freebsd-jobs FreeBSD employment and consulting opportunities freebsd-newbies New FreeBSD users activities and discussion freebsd-questions User questions and technical support freebsd-stable Discussion concerning the use of FreeBSD-stable
Technical lists: The following lists are for technical discussion. You should read the charter for each list carefully before joining or sending mail to one as there are firm guidelines for their use and content.
List Purpose ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freebsd-afs Porting AFS to FreeBSD freebsd-alpha Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha freebsd-doc Creating FreeBSD related documents freebsd-database Discussing database use and developement under FreeBSD freebsd-emulation Emulation of other systems such as Linux/DOS/Windows freebsd-fs Filesystems freebsd-hackers General technical discussion freebsd-hardware General discussion of hardware for running FreeBSD freebsd-isdn ISDN developers freebsd-java Java developers and people porting JDKs to FreeBSD freebsd-mobile Discussions about mobile computing freebsd-mozilla Porting mozilla to FreeBSD freebsd-net Networking discussion and TCP/IP source code freebsd-platforms Concerning ports to non-Intel architecture platforms freebsd-ports Discussion of the ports collection freebsd-scsi The SCSI subsystem freebsd-security Security issues freebsd-small Using FreeBSD in embedded applications freebsd-smp Design discussions for [A]Symmetric MultiProcessing freebsd-sparc Porting FreeBSD to Sparc systems. freebsd-tokenring Support Token Ring in FreeBSD
Limited lists: The following lists require approval from core@FreeBSD.ORG to join, though anyone is free to send messages to them which fall within the scope of their charters. It is also a good idea establish a presence in the technical lists before asking to join one of these limited lists.
List Purpose ---------------------------------------------------------------------- freebsd-admin Administrative issues freebsd-arch Architecture and design discussions freebsd-core FreeBSD core team freebsd-hubs People running mirror sites (infrastructural support) freebsd-install Installation development freebsd-security-notifications Security notifications freebsd-user-groups User group coordination
CVS lists: The following lists are for people interested in seeing the log messages for changes to various areas of the source tree. They are Read-Only lists and should not have mail sent to them.
List name Source area Area Description (source for) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cvs-all /usr/src All changes to the tree (superset)