Two mailing lists handle general questions about FreeBSD,
FreeBSD-questions
and
FreeBSD-hackers
. In some cases, it is not really
clear which group you should ask. The following criteria should help
for 99% of all questions, however:
If the question is of a general nature, ask
FreeBSD-questions
. Examples might be questions
about installing FreeBSD or the use of a particular UNIX®
utility.
If you think the question relates to a bug, but you are not sure,
or you do not know how to look for it, send the message to
FreeBSD-questions
.
If the question relates to a bug, and you are
sure that it is a bug (for example, you can
pinpoint the place in the code where it happens, and you maybe have
a fix), then send the message to
FreeBSD-hackers
.
If the question relates to enhancements to FreeBSD, and you
can make suggestions about how to implement them, then send the
message to FreeBSD-hackers
.
There are also a number of other specialized mailing lists, for
example FreeBSD-isp
, which caters to the interests of
ISPs (Internet Service Providers) who run FreeBSD. If you happen to be
an ISP, this does not mean you should automatically send your questions
to FreeBSD-isp
. The criteria above still apply, and
it is in your interest to stick to them, since you are more likely to get
good results that way.
This, and other documents, can be downloaded from http://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/
For questions about FreeBSD, read the
documentation before
contacting <questions@FreeBSD.org>.
For questions about this documentation, e-mail <doc@FreeBSD.org>.