-
- Articles in the press about FreeBSD.
- - - -The FreeBSD project's current statement about its Year 2000 - compatibility.
- - - -A monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter announcing recent - developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to freebsd-announce to - receive this newsletter via e-mail.
- - - -An evolving, comprehensive on-line resource for FreeBSD users. - Please address comments and contributions to <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>.
- -A Japanese translation of the handbook - (EUC encoding) is also available.
- - - -An evolving, comprehensive on-line resource for users interested - in creating and submitting a port for the Ports Collection. It - also provides some useful information for Ports committers. - Please address comments and contributions to doc@FreeBSD.org.
- - - -If you have a question, chances are that someone else has had it too. - The most common of these questions (and answers) have been compiled here.
- -&i.new; We now offer a Russian translation - and a Chinese translation of the FAQ.
- -A Japanese translation of - the FAQ (EUC encoding) is also available.
- - - -Assorted documents about various aspects of FreeBSD, FreeBSD - software, and hardware. If you have comments or would like to - contribute a document, please contact us at freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org.
- - - -
- www.FreeBSD.org is not the only place to get information on FreeBSD; - various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful - information about FreeBSD.
+A wide variety of documentation is available for FreeBSD, on this web + site, on other web sites, and available over the counter.
-Kirk McKusick, one - of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley, teaches two 4.4BSD Kernel - Internals courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to attend - the courses in person, a video tape series is also now - available.
The Open - Directory Project offers an excellent selection of links for - FreeBSD, including a list of prominent - users which can be helpful for marketing purposes.
Computer Bits, an
- Internet online magazine, has, since March 1996, been running an
- excellent series of FreeBSD related articles in their column titled
- The Network Community, by Ted Mittelstaedt.
+
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 FreeBSD FTP site.
-A Comprehensive Guide - to FreeBSD - 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.
This documentation is provided and maintained by the FreeBSD Documentation Project, and we are + always looking for people to contribute new documentation and maintain + existing documentation.
-FreeBSD How-To's for - the Lazy and Hopeless is another somewhat more light-hearted - attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style information on - setting up and configuring FreeBSD.
The - Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO 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.
-The FreeBSD FAQ
+ Frequently Asked Questions, and answers, covering all
+ aspects of FreeBSD.
Online documentation is useful, but any serious FreeBSD user should - consider getting some of the books listed here. Most books that cover - BSD systems apply well to FreeBSD.
+The FreeBSD Handbook
+ A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD
+ users.
Chapter 2 of "The
+ Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System"
+ Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides a design overview of 4.4BSD,
+ from which FreeBSD was originally derived.
The Pedantic PPP
+ Primer
+ Everything you need to know about configuring PPP on
+ FreeBSD.
The Porter's Handbook
+ Essential reading if you plan on providing a port of a third
+ party piece of software.
The FreeBSD Documentation Project
+ Primer for New Contributors
+ Everything you need to know in order to start contributing to the
+ FreeBSD Documentation Project.
The Committer's
+ Guide
+ Introductory information for FreeBSD committers.
Dialup
+ firewalling with FreeBSD
+ How to set up a firewall using PPP and ipfw over a dialup link
+ with dynamically assigned IP addresses.
Creating a diskless X
+ server
+ How to create a diskless X server.
Fonts and FreeBSD
+ A description of the various font technologies in FreeBSD, and
+ how to use them with different programs.
Formatting media
+ on FreeBSD
+ How to slice, partition, and format fixed and removable media on
+ FreeBSD.
How to get the
+ best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing list
+ Tips and tricks to help you maximise the chances of getting
+ useful information from the -questions mailing list.
An MH Primer
+ An introduction to using the MH mail reader on
+ FreeBSD.
Using FreeBSD with other
+ operating systems
+ How to install FreeBSD alongside one or more different operating
+ systems on the same computer.
FreeBSD First
+ Steps
+ For people coming to FreeBSD and Unix for the first
+ time.
Programming
+ Tools on FreeBSD
+ A user's guide to the various tools for software development on
+ FreeBSD.
Zip-drives and
+ FreeBSD
+ How to format, mount, and use an Iomega Zip (SCSI, IDE, or
+ parallel) Drive on FreeBSD.
4.4BSD Documents: This is a + hypertext version of the 4.4BSD documents from + /usr/share/doc, where you will find the + documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the doc + distribution).
+ +Info Documents: This is a + hypertext version of the Info documents from + /usr/share/info, where you will find + the Info documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the info + distribution).
- +This service is provided courtesy of Wolfram Schneider.
+Various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful + information about FreeBSD.
- - -If you like to read BSD manuals online, here is a hypertext version of - the 4.4BSD documents from /usr/share/doc, where you will find - the documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the doc distribution). -
- - +A Comprehensive Guide + to FreeBSD - 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.
+Computer Bits, an + Internet online magazine, has, since March 1996, been running an + excellent series of FreeBSD related articles in their column titled + The Network Community, by + Ted Mittelstaedt.
+ +These articles cover everything from setting up + a + FreeBSD based mail server to doing Network + Address Translation for other hosts.
+Kirk McKusick, one + of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley, teaches two 4.4BSD Kernel + Internals courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to attend + the courses in person, a video tape series is also now + available.
+FreeBSD How-To's for + the Lazy and Hopeless is another somewhat more light-hearted + attempt to provide more readable "how-to" style information on + setting up and configuring FreeBSD.
+If you like to read FreeBSD Info documents online, here is a hypertext - version of the Info documents from /usr/share/info, where you will find - the Info documents on a FreeBSD machine (if you install the info - distribution).
+The + Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO 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.
+Installing + the FreeBSD 2.2.x NTFS (NT file system) driver.
+Dynamic + Kernel Linker (KLD) Facility Programming Tutorial.
+The + Open + Directory Project offers an excellent selection of links for + FreeBSD, including a list of + prominent + users which can be helpful for marketing purposes.
Articles in the press about FreeBSD.
+ +The FreeBSD project's current statement about its Year 2000 + compatibility.
+ +A monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter announcing recent + developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to freebsd-announce to + receive this newsletter via e-mail.
+ +If you like digging your fingers into source code, here is a hypertext version of the FreeBSD kernel source. This is brought to you courtesy of Warren Toomey.
- - -The industry leader in BSD news.
-A monthly collection of easy to read (we hope) articles written by FreeBSD users and administrators just like you.
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.
-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.
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