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* Intended Audience
* Recent Changes
* Organization of this Book
* Conventions used
* Acknowledgments
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<preface id="book-preface">
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<title>Preface</title>
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<bridgehead id="preface-audience" renderas=sect1>Intended
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Audience</bridgehead>
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<para>The FreeBSD newcomer will find that the first section of this
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book guides the user through the FreeBSD installation process, and
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gently introduces the concepts and conventions that underpin Unix.
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Working through this section requires little more than the desire
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to explore, and the ability to take on board new concepts as they
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are introduced.</para>
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<para>Once you've have travelled this far, the second, far larger,
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section of the Handbook is a comprehensive reference to all manner
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of topics of interest to FreeBSD system administrators. Some of
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these chapters may recommend that you do some prior reading, and
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<para>For a list of additional sources of information, please see <xref
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linkend="bibliography">.</para>
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<bridgehead id="preface-changes" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
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<para>This second edition is the culmination of over two years of
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work by the dedicated members of the FreeBSD Documentation
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Project. The following are the major changes in this new
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edition:</para>
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<para>A complete Index has been added.</para>
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<para>All ASCII figures have been replaced by graphical diagrams.</para>
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<para>A standard synopsis has been added to each chapter to
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give a quick summary of what information the chapter contains,
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and what the reader is expected to know.</para>
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<para>The content has been logically reorganized into three
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parts: "Getting Started", "System Administration", and
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"Appendices".</para>
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rewritten with many screenshots to make it much easier for new
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users to grasp the text.</para>
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additional information about processes, daemons, and
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signals.</para>
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<para>Chapter 4 ("Installing Applications") has been expanded
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to contain additional information about binary package
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management.</para>
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<para>Chapter 5 ("The X Window System") has been completely
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rewritten with an emphasis on using modern desktop
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technologies such as KDE and GNOME on XFree86 4.X.</para>
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<para>Chapter 7 ("The FreeBSD Booting Process") has been
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expanded.</para>
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to be two separate chapters on "Disks" and "Backups". We feel
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that the topics are easier to comprehend when presented as a
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single chapter. A section on RAID (both hardware and
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software) has also been added.</para>
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<para>Chapter 15 ("Serial Communications") has been completely
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reorganized and updated for FreeBSD 4.X/5.X.</para>
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<para>Chapter 16 ("PPP and SLIP") has been substantially
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updated.</para>
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<para>Many new sections have been added to Chapter 17
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("Advanced Networking").</para>
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<para>Chapter 18 ("Electronic Mail") has been expanded to
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include more information about configuring
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<application>sendmail</application>.</para>
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<para>Chapter 20 ("Linux Compatibility") has been expanded to
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include information about installing
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<application>Oracle</application> and
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<application>SAP/R3</application>.</para>
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<para>The following new topics are covered in this second
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<para>Configuration and Tuning (Chapter 6).</para>
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<para>Sound (Chapter 14)</para>
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<bridgehead id="preface-overview" renderas=sect1>Organization of This
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<para>This book is split into three logically distinct sections.
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the installation and basic usage of FreeBSD. It is expected that
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the reader will follow these chapters in sequence, possibly
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skipping chapters covering familiar topics. The second section,
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<emphasis>System Administration</emphasis>, covers a broad
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collection of subjects that are of interest to more advanced
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FreeBSD users. Each section begins with a succinct synopsis that
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around to find chapters of interest. The third section contains
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appendices of reference information.</para>
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<term><emphasis>Chapter 1, Introduction</emphasis></term>
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<para>Introduces FreeBSD to a new user. It describes the
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history of the FreeBSD Project, the goals, development model,
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and everything else they've done for the FreeBSD project.</para>
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<term><emphasis>Chapter 2, Installation</emphasis></term>
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<para>Walks a user through the entire installation process.
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people around the world. Whether they sent in fixes for typos, or
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submitted complete chapters, all the contributions have been
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document by paying authors to work on it full-time, paying for
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publication, etc. In particular, BSDi (subsequently acquired by
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<ulink url="http://www.windriver.com">Wind River Systems</ulink>)
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paid members of the FreeBSD Documentation Project to work on
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improving this book full time leading up to the publication of the
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first printed edition in March 2000 (ISBN 1-57176-241-8). Wind
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River Systems then paid several additional authors to make a
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number of improvement to the print-output infrastructure and add
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additional chapters to the text. This work culminated in the
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publication of the second printed edition in November 2001 (ISBN
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1-57176-303-1).</para>
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