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<p>A wide variety of documentation is available for FreeBSD, on this web
site, on other web sites, and available over the counter.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#books">Books available as part of the FreeBSD
Project</a>
<li><a href="#articles">Articles available as part of
the FreeBSD Project</a>
<li><a href="#man">Man pages</a>
<li><a href="#other">Other documentation included in FreeBSD</a>
<li><a href="#other-books">Books on other sites</a>
<li><a href="#other-articles">Articles on other sites</a>
<li><a href="#links">FreeBSD-related link lists</a>
<li><a href="#press">FreeBSD in the Press</a>
<li><a href="#newsgroups">Newsgroups</a>
<li><a href="#additional">Additional Resources</a>
</ul>
<h2>On this site</h2>
<p>All the documentation on this site can be downloaded in a variety of
different formats (HTML, Postscript, PDF, and more) and compression
schemes (GZip, BZip2, Zip) from the <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/">FreeBSD FTP site</a>.</p>
<p>This documentation is provided and maintained by the <a
href="docproj/docproj.html">FreeBSD Documentation Project</a>, and we are
always looking for people to contribute new documentation and maintain
existing documentation.</p>
<h3><a name="books">Books</a></h3>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html">The FreeBSD
FAQ</a><br>
<small>Frequently Asked Questions, and answers, covering all
aspects of FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">The FreeBSD
Handbook</a><br>
<small>A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD
users.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html">The
FreeBSD Developer's Handbook</a><br>
<small>For people who want to develop software for FreeBSD (and not
just people who are developing FreeBSD itself).</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html">The Porter's
Handbook</a><br>
<small>Essential reading if you plan on providing a port of a third
party piece of software.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/index.html">Chapter 2
of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
System"</a><br>
<small>Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides a design overview of 4.4BSD,
from which FreeBSD was originally derived.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html">Chapter
8 of "The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide"</a><br>
<small>Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides an in-depth look at using
FreeBSD to provide printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell
hosts.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ppp-primer/index.html">The Pedantic
PPP Primer</a><br>
<small>Everything you need to know about configuring PPP on
FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer">The FreeBSD
Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors</a><br>
<small>Everything you need to know in order to start contributing to the
FreeBSD Documentation Project.</small></p>
<h3><a name="articles">Articles</a></h3>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/index.html">The
Committer's Guide</a><br>
<small>Introductory information for FreeBSD committers.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/article.html">Console
Server Tutorial</a><br>
<small>How to setup a FreeBSD based console server with a cheap
multi-port serial card.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html">Contributing
to FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>How to contribute to the FreeBSD Project.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/index.html">The
List of FreeBSD Contributors</a><br>
<small>A list of organizations and individuals who have helped
enhance FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.html">Setting up a CVS repository - The FreeBSD way</a><br>
<small>How to set up a CVS repository that uses the same CVSROOT
infrastructure as the FreeBSD project.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article.html">CVSup
Advanced Points</a><br>
<small>An article with some tips about the subtleties of CVSup.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/index.html">Dialup
firewalling with FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>How to set up a firewall using PPP and ipfw over a dialup link
with dynamically assigned IP addresses.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/diskless-x/index.html">Creating
a diskless X server</a><br>
<small>How to create a diskless X server.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/euro/article.html">The Euro symbol
on FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>How to configure FreeBSD and related applications to display the
new Euro symbol.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/index.html">Explaining
BSD</a><br>
<small>An answer to the question ``What is BSD?''</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/filtering-bridges/index.html">Filtering
Bridges</a><br>
<small>Configuring firewalls and filtering on FreeBSD hosts acting as
bridges rather than routers.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts/index.html">Fonts and
FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>A description of the various font technologies in FreeBSD, and
how to use them with different programs.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/index.html">Formatting
media on FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>How to slice, partition, and format fixed and removable media on
FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html">How
to get the best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list</a><br>
<small>Tips and tricks to help you maximize the chances of getting
useful information from the -questions mailing list.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hats/index.html">Working
with Hats</a><br>
<small>A committer's guide to working with ``hats'' (other
committers with authority over specific areas of
FreeBSD).</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/hubs/index.html">Mirroring FreeBSD</a>
<br><small>The all in one guide for mirroring the FreeBSD website, CVSup servers,
FTP servers, and more.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ipsec-must/index.html">Independent
Verification of IPsec Functionality in FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>A method for experimentally verifying IPsec
functionality.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/index.html">Java, and
Jakarta Tomcat</a><br>
<small>Information on setting up Java and Jakarta Tomcat on a FreeBSD
system.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html">FreeBSD
on Laptops</a><br>
<small>Information about running FreeBSD on a laptop.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mh/index.html">An MH
Primer</a><br>
<small>An introduction to using the MH mail reader on
FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/multi-os/index.html">Using
FreeBSD with other operating systems</a><br>
<small>How to install FreeBSD alongside one or more different operating
systems on the same computer.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users/index.html">FreeBSD
First Steps</a><br>
<small>For people coming to FreeBSD and Unix for the first
time.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/index.html">Pluggable
Authentication Modules</a><br>
<small>A guide to the PAM system and modules under
FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/article.html">FreeBSD
Problem Report Handling Guidelines</a><br>
<small>Recommended practices for handling FreeBSD problem
reports.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html">Writing
FreeBSD Problem Reports</a><br>
<small>How to best formulate and submit a problem report to the
FreeBSD Project.</small></p>
<p>Programming Tools on FreeBSD<br>
<small>This document has moved into <a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html">The
Developer's Handbook.</a></small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html">PXE booting
FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>How to create an Intel PXE server using FreeBSD, and how to
configure a FreeBSD client to boot from a PXE server.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">FreeBSD
Release Engineering</a><br>
<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release
engineering team to make production quality releases of the
FreeBSD Operating System. It describes the tools available
for those interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases
for corporate rollouts or commercial productization.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html">FreeBSD
Release Engineering for Third Party Packages</a><br>
<small>Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD
release engineering team to produce a high quality package set
suitable for official FreeBSD release media. This document is
a work in progress, but eventually it will cover the process
used to build a clean package set on the FreeBSD.org "Ports
Cluster", how to configure any other set of machines as a
ports cluster, how to split up the packages for the release
media, and how to verify that a package set is
consistent.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/serial-uart/index.html">Serial
and UART devices</a><br>
<small>Detailed information about the use of serial ports on FreeBSD,
including several multi-port serial cards.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/solid-state/index.html">FreeBSD
and Solid State Devices</a><br>
<small>The use of solid state disk devices in FreeBSD.</small></p>
<p><a
href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/storage-devices/index.html">Storage Devices</a><br>
<small>Detailed information about using storage devices with FreeBSD,
including ESDI disks, and SCSI disks, tape drives, and CDROM
drives.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html">Bootstrapping
Vinum: A Foundation for Reliable Servers</a><br>
<small>A gentle introduction to failure-resilient servers and
step-by-step instructions for building one with Vinum.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/index.html">Design
elements of the FreeBSD VM system</a><br>
<small>An easy to follow description of the design of the FreeBSD
virtual memory system.</small></p>
<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/zip-drive/index.html">Zip-drives
and FreeBSD</a><br>
<small>How to format, mount, and use an Iomega Zip (SCSI, IDE, or
parallel) Drive on FreeBSD.</small></p>
<h3><a name="man">Manual pages</a></h3>
<dl>
<dt><strong>FreeBSD</strong></dt>
<dd>For release:
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+1.0-RELEASE">1.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+1.1-RELEASE">1.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+1.1.5.1-RELEASE">1.1.5.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.0-RELEASE">2.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.0.5-RELEASE">2.0.5</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.0-RELEASE">2.1.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.5-RELEASE">2.1.5</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.6.1-RELEASE">2.1.6.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.1.7.1-RELEASE">2.1.7.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.1-RELEASE">2.2.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.2-RELEASE">2.2.2</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.5-RELEASE">2.2.5</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.6-RELEASE">2.2.6</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.7-RELEASE">2.2.7</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+2.2.8-RELEASE">2.2.8</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.0-RELEASE">3.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.1-RELEASE">3.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.2-RELEASE">3.2</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.3-RELEASE">3.3</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.4-RELEASE">3.4</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+3.5.1-RELEASE">3.5.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.0-RELEASE">4.0</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.1-RELEASE">4.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.2-RELEASE">4.2</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-RELEASE">4.3</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.4-RELEASE">4.4</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-RELEASE">4.5</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+4.6-RELEASE">4.6</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=freebsd-stable">4.x-stable</a>,
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+5.0-current">5.0-current</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=FreeBSD+Ports">Ports</a>.</dd>
<dt><strong>Other Systems</strong></dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=v7">Unix Seventh Edition (V7)</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.8BSD">2.8BSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.9BSD">2.9.1BSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.10BSD">2.10BSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=2.11BSD">2.11BSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=4.3BSD+Reno">4.3BSD Reno</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=NET%2F2">NET/2</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=386BSD+0.1">386BSD 0.1</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=4.4BSD+Lite2">4.4BSD Lite2</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=linux">Linux</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=NetBSD">NetBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=OpenBSD">OpenBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=darwin">Darwin</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=plan9">Plan 9</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=sunos4">SunOS 4.x</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=sunos5">SunOS 5.x</a>,
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=ultrix">ULTRIX 4.2</a>,
and <a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?manpath=XFree86">XFree86</a>.
</dd>
</dl>
<h3><a name="other">Other documentation</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/44doc/">4.4BSD Documents</a>: This is a
hypertext version of the 4.4BSD documents from
<a href="file:/usr/share/doc">/usr/share/doc</a>, where you will find the
documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the doc
distribution).</p>
<p><a href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/info/">Info Documents</a>: This is a
hypertext version of the Info documents from
<a href="file:/usr/share/info">/usr/share/info</a>, where you will find
the Info documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the info
distribution).</p>
<h2>On other web sites</h2>
<p>Various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful
information about FreeBSD.</p>
<h3><a name="other-books">Books</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/">A Comprehensive Guide
to FreeBSD</a> - an attempt at a more readable, "book-like"
tutorial explaining the FreeBSD Operating System. Intended for
people new to both FreeBSD and UNIX. Currently a work in
progress.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="other-articles">Articles</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Niels Jorgensen has authored an academic study on the
dynamics of the FreeBSD development process: <a
href="http://www.ruc.dk/~nielsj/research/papers/freebsd.pdf">
``Putting it All in the Trunk, Incremental Software
Development in the FreeBSD Open Source Project''</a>
[Information Systems Journal (2001) 11, 321-336].</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.computerbits.com/">Computer Bits</a>, an
Internet online magazine, has, since March 1996, been running an
excellent series of FreeBSD related articles in their column titled
<strong>The Network Community</strong>, by
<a href="mailto:tedm@agora.rdrop.com">Ted Mittelstaedt</a>.</p>
<p>Some of the more popular articles include: <em><a
href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1996/0300/lan9603.html">
Setting up a FreeBSD-based mail server</a></em>, <em><a
href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1997/0800/lan9708.html">
Network Address Translation</a></em>, and <em><a
href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1996/1100/lan9611.html">
Building a fax server</a></em>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="mailto:mckusick@mckusick.com">Kirk McKusick</a>, one
of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley, teaches two <a
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>
</li>
<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>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.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>
<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>
</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>
<li>
<p><a
href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>
(moderated)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
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,
featuring tips and tutorials.</p>
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