The press about FreeBSD.
This is the FreeBSD project's current statement about its Year 2000 compatibility.
The FreeBSD Newsletter, published and distributed free of charge by Walnut Creek CDROM.
A monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter containing recent developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to freebsd-announce to receive this newsletter via e-mail.
This is 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.
If you have a question, chances are that someone else has the same question. The most common of these have been compiled here in a brief question-answer format.
&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.
Here lie assorted documents on 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 and various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful information on FreeBSD:
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.
These articles cover everything from setting up a
FreeBSD based mail server to doing Network
Address Translation for other hosts.
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.
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 - this document 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.
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.
This service is provided courtesy of Wolfram Schneider. There is another script available with the manual pages for FreeBSD 2.0 and XFree86 release 3.1, courtesy of Hinrich Eilts.
If you like reading BSD manuals online, here is a hypertext version of the 4.4BSD documents from /usr/share/doc, where you would find the documents on a FreeBSD machine (if the doc distribution was installed).
If you like reading FreeBSD Info documents online, here is a hypertext version of the Info documents from /usr/share/info, where you would find the Info documents on a FreeBSD machine (if the info distribution was installed).
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.
The FreeBSD 'zine is 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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