confusing, and looks to the casual viewer like a random sorting order. In an attempt to shed some light on this, add the pathname used for sorting to each article's entry. (Do the same for books as well.) (A better solution would be to sort the articles by title the way a library's card catalog would do. Also, the distinction between articles and books is irrelevant to the readers, and can probably be removed.) While here, add the 5-STABLE roadmap document, which somehow escaped attention.
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FAQ</a> (<tt>faq</tt>)<br>
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<small>Frequently Asked Questions, and answers, covering all
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aspects of FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">The FreeBSD
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Handbook</a> (<tt>handbook</tt>)<br>
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<small>A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD
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users.</small></p>
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FreeBSD Developer's Handbook</a> (<tt>developers-handbook</tt>)<br>
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just people who are developing FreeBSD itself).</small></p>
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Handbook</a> (<tt>porters-handbook</tt>)<br>
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<small>Essential reading if you plan on providing a port of a third
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party piece of software.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/index.html">Chapter 2
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of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
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System"</a> (<tt>design-44bsd</tt>)<br>
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<small>Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides a design overview of 4.4BSD,
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from which FreeBSD was originally derived.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html">Chapter
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8 of "The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide"</a> (<tt>corp-net-guide</tt>)<br>
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<small>Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides an in-depth look at using
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FreeBSD to provide printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell
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hosts.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer">The FreeBSD
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Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors</a> (<tt>fdp-primer</tt>)<br>
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<small>Everything you need to know in order to start contributing to the
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FreeBSD Documentation Project.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/5-roadmap/index.html">The
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Roadmap for 5-STABLE.</a> (<tt>5-roadmap</tt>)<br>
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<small>Describes medium-term development and release engineering
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plans leading to the 5-STABLE branch point.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/checkpoint/index.html">Integration
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of Checkpoint VPN-1/Firewall-1 and FreeBSD IPsec.</a> (<tt>checkpoint</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to configure Checkpoint VPN-1/Firewall-1 and FreeBSD IPsec.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/index.html">The
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Committer's Guide</a> (<tt>committers-guide</tt>)<br>
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<small>Introductory information for FreeBSD committers.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/article.html">Console
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Server Tutorial</a> (<tt>console-server</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to setup a FreeBSD based console server with a cheap
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multi-port serial card.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html">Contributing
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to FreeBSD</a> (<tt>contributing</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to contribute to the FreeBSD Project.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/index.html">The
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List of FreeBSD Contributors</a> (<tt>contributors</tt>)<br>
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<small>A list of organizations and individuals who have helped
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enhance FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.html">Setting up a CVS repository - The FreeBSD way</a> (<tt>cvs-freebsd</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to set up a CVS repository that uses the same CVSROOT
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infrastructure as the FreeBSD project.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article.html">CVSup
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Advanced Points</a> (<tt>cvsup-advanced</tt>)<br>
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<small>An article with some tips about the subtleties of CVSup.</small></p>
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firewalling with FreeBSD</a> (<tt>dialup-firewall</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to set up a firewall using PPP and ipfw over a dialup link
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with dynamically assigned IP addresses.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/index.html">Creating
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a diskless X server</a> (<tt>diskless-x</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to create a diskless X server.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/article.html">The Euro symbol
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on FreeBSD</a> (<tt>euro</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to configure FreeBSD and related applications to display the
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new Euro symbol.</small></p>
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<p><a
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BSD</a> (<tt>explaining-bsd</tt>)<br>
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<small>An answer to the question ``What is BSD?''</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html">FreeBSD
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From Scratch</a> (<tt>fbsd-from-scratch</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to automatically compile, install and configure a system from
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scratch (i.e. to an empty file system), including your favorite
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ports.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html">Filtering
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Bridges</a> (<tt>filtering-bridges</tt>)<br>
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<small>Configuring firewalls and filtering on FreeBSD hosts acting as
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bridges rather than routers.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/index.html">Fonts and
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FreeBSD</a> (<tt>fonts</tt>)<br>
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<small>A description of the various font technologies in FreeBSD, and
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how to use them with different programs.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html">Formatting
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media on FreeBSD</a> (<tt>formatting-media</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to slice, partition, and format fixed and removable media on
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FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html">How
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to get the best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list</a> (<tt>freebsd-questions</tt>)<br>
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<small>Tips and tricks to help you maximize the chances of getting
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useful information from the -questions mailing list.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hats/index.html">Working
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with Hats</a> (<tt>hats</tt>)<br>
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<small>A committer's guide to working with ``hats'' (other
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committers with authority over specific areas of
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FreeBSD).</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html">Mirroring FreeBSD</a> (<tt>hubs</tt>)
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<br><small>The all in one guide for mirroring the FreeBSD website, CVSup servers,
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FTP servers, and more.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ipsec-must/index.html">Independent
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Verification of IPsec Functionality in FreeBSD</a> (<tt>ipsec-must</tt>)<br>
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<small>A method for experimentally verifying IPsec
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functionality.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/index.html">Java, and
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Jakarta Tomcat</a> (<tt>java-tomcat</tt>)<br>
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<small>Information on setting up Java and Jakarta Tomcat on a FreeBSD
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system.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html">FreeBSD
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on Laptops</a> (<tt>laptops</tt>)<br>
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<small>Information about running FreeBSD on a laptop.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mh/index.html">An MH
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Primer</a> (<tt>mh</tt>)<br>
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<small>An introduction to using the MH mail reader on
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FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/index.html">Using
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FreeBSD with other operating systems</a> (<tt>multi-os</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to install FreeBSD alongside one or more different operating
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systems on the same computer.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/index.html">FreeBSD
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First Steps</a> (<tt>new-users</tt>)<br>
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<small>For people coming to FreeBSD and Unix for the first
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time.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/index.html">Pluggable
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Authentication Modules</a> (<tt>pam</tt>)<br>
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<small>A guide to the PAM system and modules under
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FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.html">FreeBSD
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Problem Report Handling Guidelines</a> (<tt>pr-guidelines</tt>)<br>
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<small>Recommended practices for handling FreeBSD problem
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reports.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html">Writing
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FreeBSD Problem Reports</a> (<tt>problem-reports</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to best formulate and submit a problem report to the
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FreeBSD Project.</small></p>
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<p>Programming Tools on FreeBSD<br>
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<small>This document has moved into <a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html">The
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Developer's Handbook.</a></small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html">PXE booting
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FreeBSD</a> (<tt>pxe</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to create an Intel PXE server using FreeBSD, and how to
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configure a FreeBSD client to boot from a PXE server.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">FreeBSD
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Release Engineering</a> (<tt>releng</tt>)<br>
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<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release
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engineering team to make production quality releases of the
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FreeBSD Operating System. It describes the tools available
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for those interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases
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for corporate rollouts or commercial productization.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html">FreeBSD
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Release Engineering for Third Party Packages</a> (<tt>releng-packages</tt>)<br>
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<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD
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release engineering team to produce a high quality package set
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suitable for official FreeBSD release media. This document is
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a work in progress, but eventually it will cover the process
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used to build a clean package set on the FreeBSD.org "Ports
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Cluster", how to configure any other set of machines as a
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ports cluster, how to split up the packages for the release
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media, and how to verify that a package set is
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consistent.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/serial-uart/index.html">Serial
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and UART devices</a> (<tt>serial-uart</tt>)<br>
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<small>Detailed information about the use of serial ports on FreeBSD,
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including several multi-port serial cards.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/index.html">FreeBSD
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and Solid State Devices</a> (<tt>solid-state</tt>)<br>
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<small>The use of solid state disk devices in FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<p><a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/index.html">Storage Devices</a> (<tt>storage-devices</tt>)<br>
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<small>Detailed information about using storage devices with FreeBSD,
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including ESDI disks, and SCSI disks, tape drives, and CDROM
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drives.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html">Bootstrapping
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Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable Servers</a> (<tt>vinum</tt>)<br>
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<small>A gentle introduction to failure-resilient servers and
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step-by-step instructions for building one with Vinum.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/index.html">Design
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elements of the FreeBSD VM system</a> (<tt>vm-design</tt>)<br>
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<small>An easy to follow description of the design of the FreeBSD
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virtual memory system.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/index.html">Zip-drives
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and FreeBSD</a> (<tt>zip-drive</tt>)<br>
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<small>How to format, mount, and use an Iomega Zip (SCSI, IDE, or
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parallel) Drive on FreeBSD.</small></p>
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<dd>For release:
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+1.0-RELEASE">1.0</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+1.1-RELEASE">1.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+1.1.5.1-RELEASE">1.1.5.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.0-RELEASE">2.0</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.0.5-RELEASE">2.0.5</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.0-RELEASE">2.1.0</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.5-RELEASE">2.1.5</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.6.1-RELEASE">2.1.6.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.7.1-RELEASE">2.1.7.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.1-RELEASE">2.2.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.2-RELEASE">2.2.2</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.5-RELEASE">2.2.5</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.6-RELEASE">2.2.6</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.7-RELEASE">2.2.7</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.8-RELEASE">2.2.8</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.0-RELEASE">3.0</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.1-RELEASE">3.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.2-RELEASE">3.2</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.3-RELEASE">3.3</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.4-RELEASE">3.4</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.5.1-RELEASE">3.5.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.0-RELEASE">4.0</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.1-RELEASE">4.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE">4.2</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE">4.3</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-RELEASE">4.4</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-RELEASE">4.5</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">4.6</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.7-RELEASE">4.7</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=freebsd-stable">4.x-stable</a>,
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<a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">5.0-current</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+Ports">Ports</a>.</dd>
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<dt><strong>Other Systems</strong></dt>
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<dd><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=v7">Unix Seventh Edition (V7)</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.8BSD">2.8BSD</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.9BSD">2.9.1BSD</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.10BSD">2.10BSD</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.11BSD">2.11BSD</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=4.3BSD+Reno">4.3BSD Reno</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=NET%2F2">NET/2</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=386BSD+0.1">386BSD 0.1</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=4.4BSD+Lite2">4.4BSD Lite2</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=hpux">HP-UX</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=linux">Linux</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=NetBSD">NetBSD</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=OpenBSD">OpenBSD</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=darwin">Darwin</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=plan9">Plan 9</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=sunos4">SunOS 4.x</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=sunos5">SunOS 5.x</a>,
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<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=ultrix">ULTRIX 4.2</a>,
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and <a
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href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=XFree86">XFree86</a>.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h3><a name="other">Other documentation</a></h3>
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<p><a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/44doc/">4.4BSD Documents</a>: This is a
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hypertext version of the 4.4BSD documents from
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<a href="file://localhost/usr/share/doc">/usr/share/doc</a>, where you will find the
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documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the doc
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distribution).</p>
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<p><a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/info/">Info Documents</a>: This is a
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hypertext version of the Info documents from
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<a href="file://localhost/usr/share/info">/usr/share/info</a>, where you will find
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the Info documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the info
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distribution).</p>
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<h2>On other web sites</h2>
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<p>Various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful
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information about FreeBSD.</p>
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<h3><a name="other-books">Books</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/">A Comprehensive Guide
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to FreeBSD</a> - an attempt at a more readable, "book-like"
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tutorial explaining the FreeBSD Operating System. Intended for
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people new to both FreeBSD and UNIX. Currently a work in
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progress.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<h3><a name="other-articles">Articles</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p>Niels Jorgensen has authored an academic study on the
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dynamics of the FreeBSD development process: <a
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href="http://www.ruc.dk/~nielsj/research/papers/freebsd.pdf">
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``Putting it All in the Trunk, Incremental Software
|
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Development in the FreeBSD Open Source Project''</a>
|
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[Information Systems Journal (2001) 11, 321-336].</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://www.computerbits.com/">Computer Bits</a>, an
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Internet online magazine, has, since March 1996, been running an
|
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excellent series of FreeBSD related articles in their column titled
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<strong>The Network Community</strong>, by
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<a href="mailto:tedm@agora.rdrop.com">Ted Mittelstaedt</a>.</p>
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<p>Some of the more popular articles include: <em><a
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href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1996/0300/lan9603.html">
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Setting up a FreeBSD-based mail server</a></em>, <em><a
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href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1997/0800/lan9708.html">
|
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Network Address Translation</a></em>, and <em><a
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href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1996/1100/lan9611.html">
|
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Building a fax server</a></em>.</p>
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</li>
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</ul>
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<ul>
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<li>
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<p><a href="mailto:mckusick@mckusick.com">Kirk McKusick</a>, one
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of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley, teaches two <a
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href="http://www.mckusick.com/courses/">4.4BSD Kernel
|
|
Internals</a> courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to attend
|
|
the courses in person, a video tape series is also now
|
|
available.</p>
|
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</li>
|
|
|
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<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/">FreeBSD How-To's for
|
|
the Lazy and Hopeless</a> is another somewhat more light-hearted
|
|
attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style information on
|
|
setting up and configuring FreeBSD.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
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<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.html">The
|
|
Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO</a> describes how to use
|
|
Linux and FreeBSD on the same system. It introduces FreeBSD and
|
|
discusses how the two operating systems can cooperate, e.g. by
|
|
sharing swap space.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.nber.org/amd.html">Getting started with AMD on
|
|
FreeBSD</a></p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~mark/ntfs_install_2.2.html">Installing
|
|
the FreeBSD 2.2.x NTFS (NT filesystem) driver</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><p><a href="http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~mark/ntfs_install_3.1.html">Installing
|
|
the FreeBSD 3.1 NTFS driver</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><em>FreeBSD Installation Details for Newbies</em>. This
|
|
document has been imported into <a
|
|
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">The
|
|
FreeBSD Handbook</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200010/blueprints.html">Dynamic
|
|
Kernel Linker (KLD) Facility Programming Tutorial</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200007/newbus-intro.html">How to
|
|
Write Kernel Drivers with Newbus</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><em>Writing an ISA device driver</em>. This document has been
|
|
imported into <a
|
|
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook">The
|
|
Developers Handbook</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><em>FreeBSD Assembly Language Programming Tutorial</em>. This
|
|
document has been imported into <a
|
|
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook">The
|
|
Developers Handbook</a>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/split_DNS.html">Setting up
|
|
Split DNS on FreeBSD</a></p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/">Tatsumi Hosokawa's
|
|
Mobile Computing page</a> is useful for people running FreeBSD
|
|
3.X and earlier on laptops.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html">The
|
|
SMP support page</a> contains information on the SMP support
|
|
in FreeBSD 4.X and earlier.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>Appendix A from the college textbook
|
|
<a
|
|
href="http://jws-edcv.wiley.com/college/tlp/0,9842,ECSC-CXC-CXXCC-CXB0C_0471417432_BKS,00.html">
|
|
Operating Systems Concepts</a> by Silberschatz, Galvin and
|
|
Gagne has been made available online in
|
|
<a href="http://www.wiley.com/college/silberschatz6e/0471417432/pdf/bsd.pdf">PDF format</a>.
|
|
The appendix is dedicated to FreeBSD and offers a good
|
|
introduction to FreeBSD's internals.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="links">Links</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>The
|
|
<a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/">Open
|
|
Directory Project</a> offers an excellent selection of links for
|
|
FreeBSD, including a list of
|
|
<a href="http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Prominent_Users/">prominent
|
|
users</a> which can be helpful for marketing purposes.</p></li>
|
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|
|
<li>
|
|
<p>The <a
|
|
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~faulkner/multimedia/mm.html">
|
|
FreeBSD Multimedia Page</a> contains links to a variety of
|
|
multimedia resources, including the <a href=
|
|
"http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ahasty/Bt848.html">Bt848</a>
|
|
video capture chip.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
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</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2>In the real world...</h2>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="press" href="news/press.html">FreeBSD in the Press</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>Articles in the press about FreeBSD.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="newsgroups">Newsgroups</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<p>The following newsgroups contain discussion pertinent to
|
|
FreeBSD users:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
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<li>
|
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<p><a
|
|
href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>
|
|
(moderated)</p>
|
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</li>
|
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<li>
|
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<p><a
|
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href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc</a></p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a
|
|
href="news:comp.unix.bsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.misc</a></p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<h2><a name="additional">Additional resources</a></h2>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a href="y2kbug.html">Year 2000 Compatibility</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>The FreeBSD project's current statement about its Year 2000
|
|
compatibility.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/newsletter/">BSD Real-Quick (TM) Newsletter</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>A monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter announcing recent
|
|
developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to freebsd-announce to
|
|
receive this newsletter via e-mail.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a href="http://minnie.tuhs.org/FreeBSD-srctree/FreeBSD.html">The
|
|
Source Code</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>If you like digging your fingers into source code, here is a hypertext
|
|
version of the FreeBSD <em>kernel</em> source. This is brought to you
|
|
courtesy of <a href="http://minnie.tuhs.org/warren.html">Warren
|
|
Toomey</a>.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>The industry leader in BSD news.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Like FreeBSD itself, this documentation is the product of a volunteer
|
|
effort. The goals of the project are outlined here, as are the
|
|
procedures for submitting corrections and new material.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a name="diary" href="http://www.freebsddiary.org/">The FreeBSD
|
|
Diary</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>The FreeBSD Diary is a collection of how-to entries aimed at UNIX
|
|
novices. The aim is to provide a set of step-by-step guides to
|
|
installing and configuring various ports.</p>
|
|
|
|
<h3><a href="http://www.OnLamp.com/bsd/">The O'Reilly Network BSD
|
|
Dev Center</a></h3>
|
|
|
|
<p>The BSD Dev Center includes two regular columns on FreeBSD,
|
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featuring tips and tutorials.</p>
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