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This site provides links to the official &os; documentation and also links to various external documents. It's impossible to list every single article or tutorial about &os;, but please contact us if you think that a resource should be added. These FAQs help with various hardware platform specific issues. acorn32 alpha atari cats cobalt dreamcast evbarm hp300 hp700 hpcmips i386 ia64 mac68k macppc mipsco mvme68k mvmeppc news68k next68k pc532 playstation2 pmax pmppc sgimips sh3 shark sparc sparc64 sun2 sun3 vax zaurus The &os; Guide - all information about the installation and administration of the &os; operating system (single HTML document). Available formats for download: PostScript and PDF &os; Internals - aimed to contributors that wish to develop extensions or want to improve &os;'s existing code. Available formats for download: PostScript and PDF The pkgsrc guide - for users and developers of pkgsrc, the centralized package build and management system . Available formats for download: PostScript and PDF The manual pages describe the system commands, functions and drivers - the most important documentation for users. &os;-current &os; 4.0 &os; 3.0 &os; 2.0.2 &os; 2.0 Also, FreeBSD offers a nice alternative interface to &os; Manual Pages. A collection of basic questions about &os; User configuration General questions about &os; Common (and less common) problems Other questions Tracking &os;-current Updating a stable &os; release External documents: Cross-building Explained: Cross compilation on &os; Building tiny systems with embedded &os; Palmtop &os; (Installing on a HP Jornada 728) Expanding Small &os; Systems Cross-Development with &os; Test driving -current Adding a disk to an existing system Creating a bootable &os; CD-ROM Memory/Swap Configuration Encrypted swap with cgd Use and benefits of soft updates (softdeps) on FFS, the default &os; filesystem Moving /usr from root to a different partition Mounting a 'read-only' filesystem read/write Safe use of fsck What are /kern and /proc (kernfs, procfs)? Rebuilding /dev Setting up a striped (ccd) drive Filesystems in User-Space: puffs, refuse, FUSE, and more Encrypted iSCSI devices on NetBSD External documents: Encrypted filesystem with cfs Partitioning a Disk For &os; Running VMWare on &os; (dated document for &os; 1.6) NetBSD/xen Howto - NetBSD as domain0 and domainU with Xen2 and Xen3. Including how to install Linux as domainU. Hardware Documentation Library Power Management for Laptops Connecting a UPS to a &os; system &os; Mirror FAQ Kernel FAQ Kernel Programming FAQ Kernel Profiling HOWTO &os; UVM FAQ Debugging the &os; kernel with GDB HOWTO Vendor-specific ELF Note Elements Why implement traditional vfork() &os; Device Driver Writing Guide Introduction to &os; loadable kernel modules Writing a pseudo device Design Overview of the 4.4BSD kernel Information about non-executable mappings Porting &os; to a new ARM SoC Developing kernel file systems in userspace using RUMP Basic &os; Networking The Internet Super Server DNS and BIND on &os; &os; Security Processes and Services Wireless networking using the Lucent WaveLAN HOWTO Netboot a diskless machine HOWTO setup DHCP clients and servers HOWTO setup a &os; PPTP Server Steps to connect via ISDN Steps to connect via GPRS / CDPD &os;/amiga Guide to Networking FAQ IPv6 Networking FAQ IPsec FAQ RASVPN HowTo - building a user remote access VPN gateway using IPsec &os;/mac68k PPP, cross compiling, and other HOWTOs IP Filter (Firewall) resources, including HOW-TOs and FAQs Packet Filter (pf) FAQ ALTQ Tips See this section for help with various printing tasks or for setting up a scanner. Scanners are not supported by the &os; base system. It is necessary to install and configure additional software. External documents: Installing and configuring AIDE for &os; Securing Systems with chroot chrooted ntpd in &os; Systrace Policies The pkgsrc guide Adding/compiling software on &os; (including packages & pkgsrc) External documents: pkg_comp (or: how I learned to stop worrying and build pkgsrc in a chroot) Managing Third-Party Software Installation with pkgsrc Binary emulation in &os; ELF and &os; X Window or X11 is the graphical display system used on &os;. The XFree86 implementation is the default on &os; but X.Org from pkgsrc can be used alternatively. This HOWTO about X11 helps with specific configuration issues. The &os; Community Wiki contains many up to date tutorials. If you plan to write a tutorial or HOWTO for &os; please consider to publish it on the wiki - it's easy and everyone can help to improve the article. A collection of published technical and non-technical articles can be found here. Presentations about &os; are listed on this page. Research carried out using &os; and Research of interest to &os; Recommended reading - informative and useful books Single UNIX Specification Historic BSD Information FreeBSD HP-UX Manual Pages IRIX, UNICOS, and some NT/Linux Solaris SCO Openserver 5 and UnixWare 7 documentation Tru64 Unix (Used to be Digital Unix) Linux Source Tree (cross-referenced) FreeBSD/&os;/OpenBSD (and Linux) Source Tree (cross-referenced) AIX GNU