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PR: 207341 Submitted by: jaysontung@gmail.com Approved by: bcr (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D5348
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<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
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<body class="navinclude.docs">
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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
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variety of different formats (HTML, Postscript, PDF, and more)
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and compression schemes (BZip2, Zip) from the <a
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href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/">FreeBSD FTP
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site</a>.</p>
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<p>Archived copies of the &os; documentation (articles, books, and
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textinfo manuals) are also available online at <a
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href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/">http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/</a>.</p>
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<p>This documentation is provided and maintained by the
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<a href="&base;/docproj/docproj.html">FreeBSD
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Documentation Project</a>, and we are always looking for
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people to contribute new documentation and maintain existing
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documentation.</p>
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<h3>Books</h3>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/dev-model/index.html">A project model for
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the FreeBSD project</a> (dev-model)<br/>
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A formal study of the organization of the FreeBSD project.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/faq/index.html">The FreeBSD FAQ</a>
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(faq)<br/>
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Frequently Asked Questions, and answers, covering all aspects of
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FreeBSD.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/handbook/index.html">The FreeBSD
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Handbook</a> (handbook)<br/>
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A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD
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users.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/developers-handbook/index.html">The
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FreeBSD Developers' Handbook</a> (developers-handbook)<br/>
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For people who want to develop software for FreeBSD (and not
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just people who are developing FreeBSD itself).</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/arch-handbook/index.html">The FreeBSD
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Architecture Handbook</a> (arch-handbook)<br/>
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For FreeBSD system developers. This book covers the
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architectural details of many important FreeBSD kernel
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subsystems.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/porters-handbook/index.html">The Porter's
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Handbook</a> (porters-handbook)<br/>
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Essential reading if you plan on providing a port of a third
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party piece of software.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/pmake/index.html">The PMake Tutorial</a>
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(pmake)<br/>
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A tutorial for the <em>make</em> utility. This book is
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essential reading for anyone who wants to understand all the
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details of using <em>make</em> of reading and writing
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makefiles.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.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> (design-44bsd)<br/>
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Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides a design overview of 4.4BSD,
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from which FreeBSD was originally derived.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.books;/fdp-primer/index.html">The FreeBSD
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Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors</a>
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(fdp-primer)<br/>
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Everything you need to know in order to start contributing to
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the FreeBSD Documentation Project.</p>
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<a name="ARTICLES"></a><h3>Articles</h3>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/bsdl-gpl/index.html">Why you should use
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a BSD style license for your Open Source Project</a>
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(bsdl-gpl)<br/>
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Describes the benefits of releasing code under a BSD
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license.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/building-products/index.html">Building
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Products with FreeBSD</a> (building-products)<br/>
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How FreeBSD can help you build a better product.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/committers-guide/index.html">The
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Committer's Guide</a> (committers-guide)<br/>
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Introductory information for FreeBSD committers.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/contributing/index.html">Contributing
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to FreeBSD</a> (contributing)<br/>
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How to contribute to the FreeBSD Project.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/contributors/index.html">The List of
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FreeBSD Contributors</a> (contributors)<br/>
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A list of organizations and individuals who have helped enhance
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FreeBSD.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/cups/index.html">CUPS on &os;</a>
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(cups)<br/>
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How to setup CUPS with &os;.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/explaining-bsd/index.html">Explaining
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BSD</a> (explaining-bsd)<br/>
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An answer to the question ``What is BSD?''</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/filtering-bridges/index.html">Filtering
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Bridges</a> (filtering-bridges)<br/>
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Configuring firewalls and filtering on FreeBSD hosts acting as
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bridges rather than routers.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/fonts/index.html">Fonts and FreeBSD</a>
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(fonts)<br/>
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A description of the various font technologies in FreeBSD, and
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how to use them with different programs.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/freebsd-questions/index.html">How to
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get the best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing
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list</a> (freebsd-questions)<br/>
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Tips and tricks to help you maximize the chances of getting
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useful information from the -questions mailing list.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/freebsd-update-server/index.html">Build
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Your Own FreeBSD Update Server</a>
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(freebsd-update-server)<br/>
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Using a FreeBSD Update server allows a system administrator to
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perform fast updates for a number of machines from a local
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mirror.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/geom-class/index.html">Writing a GEOM
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Class</a> (geom-class)<br/>
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A guide to GEOM internals, and writing your own class.</p>
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<p><a
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href="&url.articles;/gjournal-desktop/index.html">Implementing
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UFS journaling on a desktop PC</a> (gjournal-desktop)<br/>
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A guide to create UFS partitions configured with journaling for
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desktop use.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/hubs/index.html">Mirroring FreeBSD</a>
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(hubs)<br/>
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The all in one guide for mirroring the FreeBSD website,
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FTP servers, and more.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/ipsec-must/index.html">Independent
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Verification of IPsec Functionality in FreeBSD</a>
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(ipsec-must)<br/>
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A method for experimentally verifying IPsec functionality.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/ldap-auth/index.html">LDAP
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Authentication</a> (ldap-auth)<br/>
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A practical guide about setting up an LDAP server on &os; and
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how to use it for authenticating users.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/leap-seconds/index.html">&os; Support
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for Leap Seconds</a> (leap-seconds)<br/>
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A short description of how leap seconds are handled on &os;.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/linux-emulation/index.html">Linux
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emulation in &os;</a> (linux-emulation)<br/>
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A technical description about the internals of the Linux
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emulation layer in &os;.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/linux-users/index.html">&os; Quickstart
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Guide for Linux Users</a> (linux-users)<br/>
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An introductionary guide for the users that came from Linux.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/mailing-list-faq/index.html">Frequently
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Asked Questions About The FreeBSD Mailing Lists</a>
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(mailing-list-faq)<br/>
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How to best use the mailing lists, such as how to help avoid
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frequently-repeated discussions.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/nanobsd/index.html">Introduction to
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NanoBSD</a> (nanobsd)<br/>
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Information about the NanoBSD tools, which can be used to create
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FreeBSD system images for embedded applications, suitable for
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use on a Compact Flash card (or other mass storage medium).</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/new-users/index.html">FreeBSD First
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Steps</a> (new-users)<br/>
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For people coming to FreeBSD and &unix; for the first time.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/p4-primer/index.html">Perforce in
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FreeBSD Development</a> (p4-primer)<br/>
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A guide to the Perforce version control system. It also
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describes how to manage experimental projects with the FreeBSD
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Perforce server.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/pam/index.html">Pluggable
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Authentication Modules</a> (pam)<br/>
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A guide to the PAM system and modules under FreeBSD.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/pgpkeys/index.html">OpenPGP Keys</a>
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(pgpkeys)<br/>
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All of the OpenPGP keys for &os;.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/port-mentor-guidelines/index.html">Port
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Mentor Guidelines</a> (port-mentor-guidelines)<br/>
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Guidelines for new and/or potential port mentors and
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mentees.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/pr-guidelines/index.html">FreeBSD
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Problem Report Handling Guidelines</a> (pr-guidelines)<br/>
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Recommended practices for handling FreeBSD problem reports.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/problem-reports/index.html">Writing
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FreeBSD Problem Reports</a> (problem-reports)<br/>
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How to best formulate and submit a problem report to the FreeBSD
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Project.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/rc-scripting/index.html">Practical rc.d
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scripting in BSD</a> (rc-scripting)<br/>
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A guide to writing new rc.d scripts and understanding those
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already written.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/relaydelay/index.html">FreeBSD as a
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greylist mail server</a> (relaydelay)<br/>
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Implementing a greylist mail server on FreeBSD using Sendmail,
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MySQL, Perl and the relaydelay software. This is an excellent
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method to use in the fight against spam.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/releng/index.html">FreeBSD Release
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Engineering</a> (releng)<br/>
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Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release engineering
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team to make production quality releases of the FreeBSD
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Operating System. It describes the tools available for those
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interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases for
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corporate rollouts or commercial productization.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/remote-install/index.html">Remote
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Installation of the &os; Operating System without a
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Remote Console</a> (remote-install)<br/>
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Describes the remote installation of the &os; operating system
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when the console of the remote system is unavailable.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/serial-uart/index.html">Serial and UART
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devices</a> (serial-uart)<br/>
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Detailed information about the use of serial ports on FreeBSD,
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including several multi-port serial cards.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/solid-state/index.html">FreeBSD and
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Solid State Devices</a> (solid-state)<br/>
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The use of solid state disk devices in FreeBSD.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/vinum/index.html">The vinum Volume
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Manager</a> (vinum)<br/>
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Using gvinum to create RAID arrays.</p>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/vm-design/index.html">Design elements
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of the FreeBSD VM system</a> (vm-design)<br/>
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An easy to follow description of the design of the FreeBSD
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virtual memory system.</p>
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<h2>Articles on other web sites</h2>
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<p>Various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of
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useful information about FreeBSD.</p>
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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/publications/freebsd.pdf">``Putting
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it All in the Trunk, Incremental Software Development in
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the FreeBSD Open Source Project''</a> [Information Systems
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Journal (2001) 11, 321-336].</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="mailto:mckusick@mckusick.com">Kirk McKusick</a>,
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one of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley,
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teaches two
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<a href="http://www.mckusick.com/courses/">4.4BSD Kernel
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Internals</a> courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to
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attend the courses in person, a video tape series is also
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now available.</p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/amd.html">Getting started with
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AMD on FreeBSD</a></p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a
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href="http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/profiling_debugging_freebsd_kernel_321772.pdf">Profiling
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and Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel</a></p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a
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href="http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/debugging_buffer_overruns_322486.pdf">Debugging
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Buffer Overruns in the FreeBSD Kernel</a></p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p><a href="http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/split_DNS.html">Setting up
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Split DNS on FreeBSD 4.1</a></p>
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</li>
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<li>
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<p>Appendix A from the college textbook
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<i>Operating Systems Concepts</i> by Silberschatz, Galvin
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and Gagne has been made available online in <a
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href="http://www.wiley.com/college/silberschatz6e/0471417432/pdf/bsd.pdf">PDF
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format</a>. The appendix is dedicated to FreeBSD and
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offers a good introduction to FreeBSD's internals.</p>
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</li>
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