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This forum contains the Rules and Guidelines governing the FreeBSD Forums.
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Important information related to FreeBSD Forums and the FreeBSD project.
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Blogs and Newsfeeds

External blogs and news articles regarding FreeBSD in general; imported 'as is'
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Open Source FreeBSD NAS: Maintenance Best Practices
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Share your ideas, questions or suggestions regarding The FreeBSD Forums with us here.
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General

General questions about the FreeBSD operating system. Do not post questions that belong in a more specific category.
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Rename a user/Change a username

Installing and Upgrading FreeBSD

Installing and upgrading the FreeBSD base system. Do not post questions about ports or packages here.
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page fault while in kernel mode after 14.0-Release to 14.1-Release upgrade

System Hardware

Internal storage, motherboards, PCI cards, stuff inside the case.
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Wake-on-LAN not working on "igc" driver - NIC Intel I226-V

Peripheral Hardware

Stuff that plugs in via USB, FireWire, eSATA, PS/2, etc.
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Printer works, but scanner does not

Storage

Place to ask questions about partitioning, labelling, filesystems, encryption or anything else related to storage area.
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ZFS Best way to move big files with low disk space?

Ports and Packages

Installation and Maintenance of Ports or Packages

Installing and maintaining the FreeBSD Ports Collection or FreeBSD Packages (i.e. third party software).
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sanity check post pkg upgrade

Porting New Software

Having trouble or general questions about porting software to FreeBSD? Ask here.
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Desktop Usage

Window Managers

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baloo is a complete PITA

Display Servers

X.Org and Wayland on FreeBSD; installation & configuration.
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Xorg not working on fresh install

Mobile Computing

This forum discusses issues related to running FreeBSD on notebooks, laptops, and other mobile equipment.
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Notebook / Laptop compatibility list

Multimedia/Gaming

Having problems with gaming or with running your new shiny and blinking gadget or watching DVDs, listening to CDs etc.?
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FreeBSD ffmpeg with h264 acceleration via NVENC/NVDEC

Server and Networking

Emulation and virtualization

Section for questions regarding all sorts of emulation and virtualization, like bhyve, VirtualBox, qemu and jails. As guest and as host.
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bhyve Bhyve graphical control panel

Web and Network Services

Discussion related to network/web services such as Apache, BIND Sendmail, etc.
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Networking

Network related discussions (including general TCP/IP stuff, routing, etc).
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How to debug pxeboot (anybody using it right now)?
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Firewalls

IPFW, PF, IPF (but not limited) related discussion
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PF source-track reports high number of connections (4294967254)

Non-i386/amd64 and embedded

Embedded

Having questions related to ARM/MIPS and other embedded devices which are not desktops and which usually serve a single purpose such as routers, switches, PDAs, etc?
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Tinkerboard2: Save your money
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Other Architectures

FreeBSD on Alpha, PC98, PowerPC or Sparc64. This forum is also for questions related to porting FreeBSD to new architectures.
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Development

FreeBSD Development

Kernel development, writing drivers, coding, and questions regarding FreeBSD internals.
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New Intel Simplified Architecture
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Userland Programming and Scripting

C, C++, Python, Perl, Shell, etc.
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Solved Get current executable path without procfs

Miscellaneous

Off-Topic

Have some non-FreeBSD related questions, or want just to chit-chat about anything that is not related to FreeBSD? This is the forum for you. Note: this is NOT a forum for technical questions about non-FreeBSD operating systems!
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Cath O'Deray
Is there a community list of laptops fully compatible with FreeBSD for daily drive?

Howtos and FAQs (Moderated)

Would you like to share some of your solutions for certain problems? Tips or tricks? Post here. All new topics are automatically moderated. This forum is not for asking questions!
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How to install a virtual Python environment

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