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Getting FreeBSD

Release Information

Detailed descriptions of past, present, and future releases. Look here first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is.

Installing FreeBSD

There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation from CD-ROM, DVD, floppy disk, an MS-DOS® partition, magnetic tape, anonymous FTP, and NFS. Please read through the installation guide before downloading the entire FreeBSD distribution.

Buying FreeBSD

FreeBSD can be acquired on CD-ROM or DVD from FreeBSD Mall, or one of the other CD-ROM and DVD Publishers.

Download FreeBSD

Version & Platform		Distribution	ISO	Release Notes	Hardware Notes	Installation Notes	Errata
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE				[View]	[View]	[View]	[View]
	amd64	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	i386	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	ia64	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	pc98	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	powerpc	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	sparc64	[Distribution]	[ISO]
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE				[View]	[View]	[View]	[View]
	amd64	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	i386	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	ia64	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	pc98	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	powerpc	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	sparc64	[Distribution]	[ISO]

Note: If you are in doubt of which platform / architecture to get, you probably need i386.

If you plan on getting FreeBSD via FTP, please check the listing of mirror sites in the handbook to see if there is a site closer to you. Alternatively, you may want to download FreeBSD using the BitTorrent protocol. The .torrent files can be downloaded from the FreeBSD BitTorrent Tracker.

Help With The Next FreeBSD Release

Our developers and release engineers are working on the the next release of FreeBSD; if you wish to help with testing, please download the latest build. Please note that these images are, by their very nature, intended for testing and should not be used in production environments.

Version & Platform		Distribution	ISO	Status page
FreeBSD 7.3-RC2				[View]
	amd64	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	i386	[Distribution]	[ISO]
	pc98