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A wide variety of documentation is available for FreeBSD, on this web site, on other web sites, and available over the counter.

On this site

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.

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.

Books

The FreeBSD FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions, and answers, covering all aspects of FreeBSD.

The FreeBSD Handbook
A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD users.

The FreeBSD Developer's Handbook
For people who want to develop software for FreeBSD (and not just people who are developing FreeBSD itself).

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.

Chapter 8 of "The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide"
Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides an in-depth look at using FreeBSD to provide printing services to Windows, NT, and Novell hosts.

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.

Articles

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.

Manual pages

FreeBSD
For release: 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5.1, 2.0, 2.0.5, 2.1.0, 2.1.5, 2.1.6.1, 2.1.7.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, 2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5.1, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, + 4.3, 5.0-current, Ports.
Other Systems
Unix Seventh Edition (V7), 2.8BSD, 2.9.1BSD, 2.10BSD, 2.11BSD, 4.3BSD Reno, NET/2, 386BSD 0.1, 4.4BSD Lite2, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, SunOS 4.x, SunOS 5.x, ULTRIX 4.2, and XFree86.

Other documentation

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).

On other web sites

Various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of useful information about FreeBSD.

Books

Articles

Links

In the real world...

FreeBSD in the Press

Articles in the press about FreeBSD.

Additional resources

Year 2000 Compatibility

The FreeBSD project's current statement about its Year 2000 compatibility.

FreeBSD Real-Quick (TM) Newsletter (RQN)

A monthly (sometimes bi-weekly) newsletter announcing recent developments in the FreeBSD arena. Subscribe to freebsd-announce to receive this newsletter via e-mail.

The Source Code

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.

Daemon News

The industry leader in BSD news.

The FreeBSD 'zine

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

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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For late-breaking news about FreeBSD, please visit the Newsflash page.

Current Release(s)

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Release 4.2 (November, 2000) +

Release 4.3 (November, 2000) -Announcement : -Release Notes : -Errata +Announcement : +Release Notes : +Errata

The latest daily release from our FreeBSD-stable branch is also available. Please see Getting FreeBSD for details.

Future Releases

We will continue to bring you new releases from both our FreeBSD-stable and FreeBSD-current branches, both as developer's snapshots and as regular full releases. The next scheduled release on the -stable branch will be FreeBSD 4.3 in mid April of 2001. The first release on what is now the -current branch will be FreeBSD 5.0, scheduled for the third quarter of 2001.

Past Releases

Release Usage Statistics

A snapshot of the current FreeBSD release usage is available at http://www.FreeBSD.org/statistic/release_usage/2001/.

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Release Information

Detailed descriptions of past, present, and future releases. Look here first to determine what the latest version of FreeBSD is.

Installing FreeBSD

There are many options for installing FreeBSD, including installation from CDROM, floppy disk, an MS-DOS partition, magnetic tape, anonymous ftp, and NFS. Please read through the installation guide before downloading the entire FreeBSD distribution. If you are installing on a machine connected to the Internet, you may only need to download a single installation disk image!

Distribution Sites

The official sources for FreeBSD are:

If you plan on getting FreeBSD via ftp, please check the listing of mirror sites in the handbook to see if there is a site closer to you. For more information about past, present and future releases in general, please visit the release information page.

If you're interested in a purely experimental snapshot release of FreeBSD-current (AKA 5.0-current), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the daily snapshot server FTP site.

Applications and Utility Software

The Packages collection

The FreeBSD packages collection is a diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to FreeBSD. The packages are pre-compiled binaries ready to drop into your system and run.

The Ports collection

The Ports collection is like the packages collection, but the necessary patches and makefiles to compile the source code are provided instead of compiled binaries. For software with important configuration that must be done at compile time, the "port" version may be more useful than the "package" version.

For information about how you can contribute your favorite piece of software to the port collection, have a look at Porting applications and Contributing to FreeBSD in the FreeBSD handbook.

Commercial software

Beginning with FreeBSD Release 2.0.5, FreeBSD includes demo versions of some commercial as well as some shareware products. In addition to the demos available in the FreeBSD distribution, a number of other commercial vendors offer software products specifically for FreeBSD.

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