* *Internet services.* Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other services. Ready-to-run software like the http://nginx.org[NGINX] or http://www.apache.org/[Apache] web server or the http://proftpd.org/[ProFTPD] or http://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html[vsftpd] FTP server make it easy to set up a business or community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable link:../internet/[networking], your users will enjoy high speed, reliable services.

* *X Window workstation.* From an inexpensive X terminal to an advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software (https://x.org/[X.Org](T)) comes with the system. https://www.nvidia.com/[NVIDIA] offers native drivers for their high-performance graphics hardware, and the industry standard https://www.opengroup.org/motif/[Motif](R) and https://www.opengl.org/[OpenGL](R) libraries are supported. The https://xfce.org/[Xfce] and https://lxde.org/[LXDE] products provide a desktop environment. The https://www.kde.org[KDE] and https://www.gnome.org[GNOME] desktop environments also enjoy full support and provide office suite functionality, with further good functionality available in the https://www.libreoffice.org/[LibreOffice] and https://www.openoffice.org/[OpenOffice.Org] products.

* *Software development.* A suite of https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/[development tools] comes with FreeBSD, including the LLVM-based clang C/C++ compiler and debugger. Java(R) and Tcl/Tk development are also possible for example. And FreeBSD's shared libraries have always been easy to make and use. You can also choose from a wide range of popular and powerful editors, such as Emacs and Vim.

* *Net surfing.* A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet surfboard. FreeBSD versions of http://www.chromium.org/Home[Chromium] and http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/[Firefox] are available for serious web users. Surf the web, publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive email with a FreeBSD system on your desktop.

* *Education and research.* FreeBSD makes an excellent research platform because it includes complete source code. Students and researchers of operating systems or other computer science fields can benefit greatly from such an open and well-documented system.

* Take measures to ensure that a competent administrator would be expected to be able to adopt a predecessor's work in a reasonable amount of time.

* Contingency planning and implementation to ensure continuity across site specific problems (including donated site withdrawal or outages).

* Keep the interested parties (Core Team, Security Team, FreeBSD Foundation, Ports Management Team, etc), project members and community members appropriately informed.

* Aid other hat wearers and cluster administrators to get their job done.

* Where practical and appropriate, use the Project's own product as a proving ground.

* Make sure that it is easy for developers to know what hardware resources they have access to for project purposes.

This is not an official statement from core, but rather one core member's personal interpretation of core's position, both as a sitting member of core and as a former security officer. This is only a guideline, not as a cudgel for grievances. Much like style(9) is a guideline for the source code, this document is not intended as an absolute straight jacket.

When people submit patches that potentially impact this area of the tree, core expects the hat or his appointed deputies to review the patches appropriately. Core expects that the hat will work with the patch submitter to correct issues that there may be with the patches. Core expects the hat to offer solutions and work with the submitter to reach a compromise. Core expects the hat to be courteous. It is reasonable for hats to request that normal project rules be followed when reviewing patches (for example, that they generally conform to style(9) or the prevailing style of the file, that style and content changes be separated.).

== Latest News

* *13 Apr, 2021*: FreeBSD 13.0 was released introducing new target powerpc64le and LLVM as main compiler. Supports disk, network and video controller drivers for modern POWER machines from Raptor Computing (Blackbird and Talos II) and IBM (LC922 and IC922). https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/relnotes/[Release Notes]

* *29 Dec, 2019*: Release 13.0 for powerpc, powerpcspe and powerpc64 targets will replace GCC4 by LLVM compiler and powerpc64 will use the modern OpenPower 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification.

* *05 May, 2019*: FreeBSD has been tested and seems to work on the https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/Raptor/Blackbird[Raptor Blackbird].

* 64-bit

** *Users of 64-bit big endian CPUs Apple G5 and POWER7*: FreeBSD/powerpc64 should be installed. Apple G5 users also have a choice of using the 32-bit FreeBSD/powerpc but FreeBSD/powerpc64 provides ZFS support and the ability of use more than 2 GB of RAM.

* 32-bit

= FreeBSD OpenSearch Plugins

== By the FreeBSD.org web site

* Approve new and returning commit bits for the source repositories.

* Reclaim idle commit bits for the source repositories.

* Define and manage recruiting activities for both new committers and mentors.

* Arbitrate disputes related to the source repository between FreeBSD community members.

* Define and encourage healthy norms for interactions between committers and external contributors.

_For example, guidelines and best practices for reviewing patches and working with bugmeister@ to develop source-specific bug triage workflows._

For more information visit the link:http://bse.42.org/[BSE web site].

link:http://www.fug-fr.org/[FUG-FR]::

They are also active in helping out FOSDEM (held in Brussels).

For more information please visit our web page link:http://www.fug-fr.org/[http://www.fug-fr.org] or contact link:mailto:rodrigo@bebik.net[Rodrigo Osorio].

link:http://www.lissyara.su[Lissyara.su]::

We are a Russian FreeBSD community.

On our site we offer several articles for setting up FreeBSD and various other applications.

link:http://bsdportal.ru[Russian FreeBSD User Group (RFUG)]::

The Russian FreeBSD User Group (RFUG) is a Russian language oriented user group for the Russian and ex-USSR users.