Table of Contents
Preface
I. Getting Started

1 Introduction

2 Installing FreeBSD

3 UNIX Basics

4 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports

5 The X Window System

II. Common Tasks

6 Desktop Applications

7 Multimedia

8 Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel

9 Printing

10 Linux Binary Compatibility

III. System Administration

11 Configuration and Tuning

12 The FreeBSD Booting Process

Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Documentation and Support
3 Installation
4 Hardware compatibility

4.1 General
4.2 Architectures and processors
4.3 Hard drives, tape drives, and CD and DVD drives
4.4 Keyboards and mice
4.5 Networking and serial devices
4.6 Sound devices
4.7 Other hardware

5 Troubleshooting
6 Commercial Applications
7 User Applications
8 Kernel Configuration
9 Disks, Filesystems, and Boot Loaders
10 System Administration

Table of Contents

I. Basics

1 Introduction

2 Programming Tools

3 Secure Programming

4 Localization and Internationalization - L10N and I18N

5 Source Tree Guidelines and Policies

6 Regression and Performance Testing

II. Interprocess Communication

7 Sockets

8 IPv6 Internals

III. Kernel

9 DMA

10 Bulding and Installing a FreeBSD Kernel

11 Kernel Debugging

IV. Architectures

Table of Contents

I. Kernel

1 Bootstrapping and kernel initialization

2 Locking Notes

3 Kernel Objects

4 The Jail Subsystem

5 The SYSINIT Frameworkon

6 The TrustedBSD MAC Framework

7 Virtual Memory System

8 SMPng Design Document

II. Device Drivers

9 Writing FreeBSD Device Drivers

10 ISA device drivers

11 PCI Devices

12 Common Access Method SCSI Controllers
13 USB Devices

14 Newbus

This book is designed for the new user and new system administrator of FreeBSD. This was written to help those who have no real UNIX background easily get started using FreeBSD. No matter what application, whether as a desktop system, or installed as a Internet server, FreeBSD has the power and the flexibility required to meet even the most demanding situations. FreeBSD, however, requires more of an administrative approach than most over-the-counter operating systems.