[newbie] lists.freebsd.org holy jeebus....
reddit / BSD

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jjasghar · 2015-12-08 17:55

I'm pulling myself back into the FreeBSD world. Looking at the mailing
lists there are a ton. For someone trying to grok/get the lay of the
land and help out which ones should i start following?

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neirbowj · 2015-12-08 18:43

It would help to know what your interests and abilities are. Are you a
total newbie looking for some hand-holding as you to install a system
and get oriented to a command line environment? Are you an embedded
systems kernel hacker, looking for a new challenge to bring up FreeBSD
on the latest ARM SCB?

The *-announce lists (freebsd-announce, freebsd-ops-announce, freebsd-
ports-announce) are good, low-volume choices in any event.

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jjasghar · 2015-12-08 19:03

> It would help to know what your interests and abilities are. Are you
a total newbie looking for some hand-holding as you to install a
system and get oriented to a command line environment? Are you an
embedded systems kernel hacker, looking for a new challenge to bring
up FreeBSD on the latest ARM SCB?

Great point, sorry about that.

I guess I'm coming from the server side, looking for ways to help out
with ports and building applications. I'm interested in jails and the
bhyve too. I'm pretty much solidly in x86 world; looking to
learn/leverage FreeBSD in places that i would normally gravitate to
Ubuntu/Debian for.

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BumpitySnook · 2015-12-09 00:40

FreeBSD-CURRENT and -hackers are good to follow.  -arch for high level
dev discussions.

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BumpitySnook · 2015-12-09 00:42

\#bsdports on EFnet (https://wiki.freebsd.org/IrcChannels) and the
freebsd-ports mailing list would be good places to start.

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jjasghar · 2015-12-09 19:14

Oh nice, thanks for this.

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jjasghar · 2015-12-09 19:14

Makes sense. I'll keep an eye on them.

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GoodLunchHaveFries · 2015-12-10 07:05

Can someone explain to me what the fuck this sub is?

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neirbowj · 2015-12-10 13:34

In that case, I would probably start with freebsd-ports, freebsd-
stable, and freebsd-jail.

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jjasghar · 2015-12-10 17:03

Nice thanks.

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cacatl · 2015-12-13 04:37

/r/bsd