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<p>A wide variety of documentation is available for FreeBSD, on this web
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site, on other web sites, and available over the counter.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#books">Books available as part of the FreeBSD
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Project</a>
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<li><a href="#articles">Articles available as part of
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the FreeBSD Project</a>
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<li><a href="#press">FreeBSD in the Press</a>
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<li><a href="#additional">Additional Resources</a>
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<h2>On this site</h2>
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<p>All the documentation on this site can be downloaded in a variety of
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different formats (HTML, Postscript, PDF, and more) and compression
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schemes (GZip, BZip2, Zip) from the <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/">FreeBSD FTP site</a>.</p>
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<p>This documentation is provided and maintained by the <a
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href="docproj/docproj.html">FreeBSD Documentation Project</a>, and we are
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always looking for people to contribute new documentation and maintain
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existing documentation.</p>
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<h3><a name="books">Books</a></h3>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html">The FreeBSD
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FAQ</a><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><br>
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<small>A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD
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users.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/index.html">The
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FreeBSD Developer's Handbook</a><br>
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<small>For people who want to develop software for FreeBSD (and not
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just people who are developing FreeBSD itself).</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html">The Porter's
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Handbook</a><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><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><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><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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<h3><a name="articles">Articles</a></h3>
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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><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><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><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><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><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><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><br>
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<small>An article with some tips about the subtleties of CVSup.</small></p>
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<p><a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/dialup-firewall/index.html">Dialup
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firewalling with FreeBSD</a><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><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><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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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/index.html">Explaining
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BSD</a><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/filtering-bridges/index.html">Filtering
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Bridges</a><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><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><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><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><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>
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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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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><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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<h3><a name="man">Manual pages</a></h3>
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<dl>
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<dt><strong>FreeBSD</strong></dt>
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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=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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</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
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Internals</a> courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to attend
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the courses in person, a video tape series is also now
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available.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://flag.blackened.net/freebsd/">FreeBSD How-To's for
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the Lazy and Hopeless</a> is another somewhat more light-hearted
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attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style information on
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setting up and configuring FreeBSD.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.html">The
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Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO</a> describes how to use
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Linux and FreeBSD on the same system. It introduces FreeBSD and
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discusses how the two operating systems can cooperate, e.g. by
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sharing swap space.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://www.nber.org/amd.html">Getting started with AMD on
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FreeBSD</a></p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~mark/ntfs_install_2.2.html">Installing
|
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the FreeBSD 2.2.x NTFS (NT filesystem) driver</a>.</p>
|
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</li>
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|
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<li><p><a href="http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~mark/ntfs_install_3.1.html">Installing
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the FreeBSD 3.1 NTFS driver</a>.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<p><em>FreeBSD Installation Details for Newbies</em>. This
|
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document has been imported into <a
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href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html">The
|
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FreeBSD Handbook</a>.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
|
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<p><a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200010/blueprints.html">Dynamic
|
|
Kernel Linker (KLD) Facility Programming Tutorial</a>.</p>
|
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</li>
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|
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<li>
|
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<p><a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200007/newbus-intro.html">How to
|
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Write Kernel Drivers with Newbus</a>.</p>
|
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</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>
|
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</li>
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|
|
<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>
|
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</li>
|
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|
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<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/split_DNS.html">Setting up
|
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Split DNS on FreeBSD</a></p>
|
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</li>
|
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|
|
<li>
|
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<p><a href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/">Tatsumi Hosokawa's
|
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Mobile Computing page</a> is useful for people running FreeBSD
|
|
3.X and earlier on laptops.</p>
|
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</li>
|
|
|
|
<li>
|
|
<p><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html">The
|
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SMP support page</a> contains information on the SMP support
|
|
in FreeBSD 4.X and earlier.</p>
|
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</li>
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|
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<li>
|
|
<p>Appendix A from the college textbook
|
|
<a
|
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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>
|
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</li>
|
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</ul>
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|
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<h3><a name="links">Links</a></h3>
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<ul>
|
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<li>
|
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<p>The
|
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<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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|
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<li>
|
|
<p>The <a
|
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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>
|
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</li>
|
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</ul>
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|
<h2>In the real world...</h2>
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|
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<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>
|
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<ul>
|
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<li>
|
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<p><a
|
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href="news:comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce">comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce</a>
|
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(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>
|
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</li>
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|
|
<li>
|
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<p><a
|
|
href="news:comp.unix.bsd.misc">comp.unix.bsd.misc</a></p>
|
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</li>
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</ul>
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<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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