Selv om manualsidene er en definitiv referanse for individuelle deler av FreeBSD operativsystemet, er de notoriske for å ikke illustrere hvordan delene skal puttes sammen slik at hele operativsystemet kjører stabilt og sikkert. For å få dette til, kommer man ikke utenom en god bok om Unix systemadministrasjon og en god manual for brukere. Internasjonale bøker & Magasiner: Using FreeBSD (på Kinesisk). FreeBSD for PC 98'ere (på Japansk), publisert av SHUWA System Co, LTD. ISBN 4-87966-468-5 C3055 P2900E. FreeBSD (på Japansk), publisert av CUTT. ISBN 4-906391-22-2 C3055 P2400E. Complete Introduction To FreeBSD (på Japansk), publisert av Shoeisha Co., Ltd. ISBN 4-88135-473-6 P3600E. Personal UNIX Starter Kit FreeBSD (på Japansk), publisert av ASCII. ISBN 4-7561-1733-3 P3000E. FreeBSD Handbook (Japansk Oversettelse), publisert av ASCII. ISBN 4-7561-1580-2 P3800E. FreeBSD mit Methode (in German), publisert av Computer und Literatur Verlag/Vertrieb Hanser, 1998. ISBN 3-932311-31-0. FreeBSD Install and Utilization Manual (på Japansk), publisert av Mainichi Communications Inc.. Onno W Purbo, Dodi Maryanto, Syahrial Hubbany, Widjil Widodo Building Internet Server with FreeBSD (På Indonesisk), publisert av Elex Media Komputindo. Engelske bøker & Magasiner: The Complete FreeBSD, publisert av BSDi. The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide, publisert av Addison-Wesley. Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD User's Reference Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-075-9 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-076-7 UNIX in a Nutshell. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990. ISBN 093717520X Mui, Linda. What You Need To Know When You Can't Find Your UNIX System Administrator. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-104-6 Ohio State University har skrevet en UNIX Introductory Course som er tilgjengelig online i HTML og PostScript format. Jpman Project, Japan FreeBSD Users Group. FreeBSD User's Reference Manual (Japansk oversettelse). Mainichi Communications Inc., 1998. ISBN4-8399-0088-4 P3800E. Edinburgh University har skrevet en Online Guide for Unix nybegynnere. Albitz, Paul and Liu, Cricket. DNS and BIND, 4th Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2001. ISBN 1-59600-158-4 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-080-5 Costales, Brian, et al. Sendmail, 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-56592-222-0 Frisch, Æleen. Essential System Administration, 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-127-5 Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration, 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-56592-322-7 Nemeth, Evi. UNIX System Administration Handbook. 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-13-020601-6 Stern, Hal Managing NFS and NIS O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991. ISBN 0-937175-75-7 Jpman Project, Japan FreeBSD Users Group. FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual (Japansk oversettelse). Mainichi Communications Inc., 1998. ISBN4-8399-0109-0 P3300E. Asente, Paul, Converse, Diana, and Swick, Ralph. X Window System Toolkit. Digital Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55558-178-1 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD Programmer's Reference Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-078-3 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-079-1 Harbison, Samuel P. and Steele, Guy L. Jr. C: A Reference Manual. 4rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-326224-3 Kernighan, Brian and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language.. PTR Prentice Hall, 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-9 Lehey, Greg. Porting UNIX Software. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-126-7 Plauger, P. J. The Standard C Library. Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-131509-9 Stevens, W. Richard. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1992 ISBN 0-201-56317-7 Stevens, W. Richard. UNIX Network Programming. 2nd Ed, PTR Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0-13-490012-X Wells, Bill. Writing Serial Drivers for UNIX. Dr. Dobb's Journal. 19(15), Desember 1994. pp68-71, 97-99. Andleigh, Prabhat K. UNIX System Architecture. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990. ISBN 0-13-949843-5 Jolitz, William. Porting UNIX to the 386. Dr. Dobb's Journal. January 1991-July 1992. Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John Quarterman The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System: Answer Book. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-54629-9 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 (Kapittel 2 av denne boken er tilgjengeligonline som en del av FreeBSD Dokumentasjonsprosjektet, og kapittel 9 her.) Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63346-9 Schimmel, Curt. Unix Systems for Modern Architectures. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63338-8 Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP and the UNIX Domain Protocols. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63495-3 Vahalia, Uresh. UNIX Internals -- The New Frontiers. Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-13-101908-2 Wright, Gary R. and W. Richard Stevens. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-63354-X Cheswick, William R. and Steven M. Bellovin. Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-63357-4 Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford. Practical UNIX & Internet Security. 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1996. ISBN 1-56592-148-8 Garfinkel, Simson. PGP Pretty Good Privacy O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-098-8 Anderson, Don and Tom Shanley. Pentium Processor System Architecture. 2nd Ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40992-5 Ferraro, Richard F. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-62490-7 Intel Corporation publiserer dokumentasjon om deres CPU'er, chipsets og standarder på deres developer web site, vanvligvis som PDF filer. Shanley, Tom. 80486 System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40994-1 Shanley, Tom. ISA System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40996-8 Shanley, Tom. PCI System Architecture. 4th ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN 0-201-30974-2 Van Gilluwe, Frank. The Undocumented PC, 2nd Ed. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1996. ISBN 0-201-47950-8 Messmer, Hans-Peter. The Indispensable PC Hardware Book, 4th Ed. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 2002. ISBN 0-201-59616-4 Lion, John Lion's Commentary on UNIX, 6th Ed. With Source Code. ITP Media Group, 1996. ISBN 1573980137 Raymond, Eric S. The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. Også kjent som Jargon File Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5 Simon Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann. The UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56884-203-1 Don Libes, Sandy Ressler Life with UNIX — special edition. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. ISBN 0-13-536657-7 BSD familietreet. 1997. ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree eller lokalt på en FreeBSD-current maskin. The BSD Release Announcements collection. 1997. http://www.de.FreeBSD.org/de/ftp/releases/ Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library. http://www.ncstrl.org/ Gamle BSD releases fra Computer Systems Research group (CSRG). http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/: 4CD settet dekker alle BSD versjoner fra 1BSD til 4.4BSD og 4.4BSD-Lite2 (men ikke 2.11BSD, dessverre). Den siste disken inneholder de siste sources pluss SCCS filene. The C/C++ Users Journal. R&D Publications Inc. ISSN 1075-2838 Sys Admin — The Journal for UNIX System Administrators Miller Freeman, Inc., ISSN 1061-2688