NetBSD Documentation

This site provides links to the official NetBSD documentation and also links to various external documents. It's impossible to list every single article or tutorial about NetBSD, but please contact us if you think that a resource should be added.

Guides

Manual Pages

The manual pages describe the system commands, functions and drivers - the most important documentation for users.

Port specific FAQs

These FAQs help with various hardware platform specific issues.

FAQs and HOWTOs

Basic NetBSD questions

There is a document containing some basic HOWTOs for NetBSD. Further tutorials and other information can be found on the NetBSD wiki.

Emulation and Virtualization

  • NetBSD/xen Howto - NetBSD as domain0 and domainU with Xen2 and Xen3. Including how to install Linux as domainU.

Infrastructure

Security

Software and pkgsrc

External Resources

Tutorials, articles and books

Documentation for BSD and other Unix Systems