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| #freebsd-irc | IRC Channel Assistance, Cloak Requests, Community Engagement |
FreeBSD IRC channels on Libera Chat are registered and managed by the FreeBSD IRC Admin team, with consistent channel management and moderation guidelines.
| #freebsd | General user/technical support and on-topic discussion (requires registered nickname/account to join) |
| #freebsd-bugs | Issue/bug Tracking, Triage and Bugmeister |
| #freebsd-de | German Language |
| #freebsd-desktop | Force-Desktop! Gnome, KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, Mate, NomadBSD, GhostBSD & More! |
| #freebsd-dev | FreeBSD Development, Hacking and Contribution |
| #freebsd-embedded | ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, FreeScale + SoCs |
#freebsd-fr | French Language |
| #freebsd-games | Games and gaming on FreeBSD |
| #freebsd-gecko | Gecko on FreeBSD |
| #freebsd-ports | Porting & Packaging. Contributors, Maintainers & Committers. |
| #freebsd-pulse | Keep your finger on the pulse of FreeBSD. Real-time project updates & notifications |
| #freebsd-python | Python on FreeBSD |
| #freebsd-riscv | FreeBSD on RISC-V |
| #freebsd-security | Security / vulnerability related discussion |
| #freebsd-social | Off-topic / Socializing |
| #freebsd-stack | Webfoo: Apache, NGINX, PHP, Owncloud …. |
| #freebsd-vbox | VirtualBox on FreeBSD |
| #freebsd-wiki | Wiki management, content creation and editing |
Unofficial channels are not managed by the FreeBSD Project
| #ambug 🇦🇲 | Armenian BSD Users Group |
| #BastilleBSD | Discussion & support channel for BastilleBSD container (jail) management system |
#BSDchat | Taiwan BSD channel (Traditional Chinese) |
| #bhyve | bhyve channel |
#bsdaustria | Austrian BSD user group |
| #bsd-sharp | Mono on FreeBSD support channel |
#bsdgroup.de | German BSD channel |
| #bsdin | Indian language channel |
| #charmbug | Baltimore Area BSD User Group |
| #ggi | GGI development channels |
| #haskell-freebsd | Haskell on FreeBSD support channel |
| #kde-freebsd | KDE on FreeBSD |
| #metabug | Global BSD Users Group Federation (member groups (have) include(d) Sydney, Colorado, Chicago, Dominican Republic, London, Manchester, Munic, New Delhi, NYC, Ottawa-Carleton, Orlando, and San Diego) |
#netbsd-pl | Polish BSD channel |
| #nycbug | New York City BSD Users Group |
| #pkg | pkg development and support |
| #poudriere | poudriere development and support |
#sbug | Subcarpathian BSD User Group |
#unixfreunde | German BSD Channel |
##bsdforen.de | German BSD channel |
##freebsd-br | Brazilian BSD Channel |
##freebsd-pl | Polish BSD channel |
| #freebsd | NOT BSD-related at all |
| #freebsd-bugbusters | Bug hunters and PR killers |
| #freebsd-ci | Continuous Integration |
| #freebsd-mobile | Discussion about FreeBSD on laptops and other mobile devices. |
| #freebsd-office | For porting all office related programs |
| #freebsd-soc | Summer of Code discussion channel |
| #freebsd-tcltk | TCL/TK porting discussion |
| #freebsd-wifi | WiFi in FreeBSD |
| #freebsd-xfce | Porting Xfce to FreeBSD |
| #freebsd-xorg | Discussion about X11 |
#freebsd.se | Swedish BSD channel |
#bsd-pl | Polish BSD User Group channel |
#bsd-dk | Danish BSD channel (danish) |
| #bsdbelfast | BSD in Belfast user group |
| #bsdcode | Src people |
| #bsddev | Public channel for committers and contributors to work |
| #bsddocs | Discussions about FreeBSD Documentation related topics |
| #bsdmips | General embedded FreeBSD discussion, and a good place to catch embedded platform maintainers (sometimes off-topic) |
| #bsdports | Ports general talk, a lot of committers but public |
| #bsdtinderbox | Marcuscom Tinderbox support channel |
| #bsdpkgbase | PkgBase |
| #bsdusb | USB related development (technical channel) |
| #devsummit | Devsummit related discussions |
| #freebsdhelp | Help and general FreeBSD discussion channel. |
| #rubyports | Ruby and rubygem ports |
| #gitcvt | FreeBSD Git migration and usage |
| RusNet |
#bsd-unix | Russian FreeBSD development channel (koi8-r) |
#freebsd | Russian FreeBSD general discussion channel (koi8-r) |
| OzOrg |
#bugs | BSD Users Group, Sydney |
| MagNET |
| #bsdperl | Perl on FreeBSD Talk Channel |
| OFTCnet |
| #freebsd-clang | LLVM/Clang porting channel |