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<h2>On this site</h2>
<p>All the documentation on this site can be downloaded in a
variety of different formats (HTML, Postscript, PDF, and more)
and compression schemes (BZip2, Zip) from the <a
href="https://download.FreeBSD.org/ftp/doc/">FreeBSD Download
site</a>.</p>
<p>Archived copies of the &os; documentation (articles, books, and
textinfo manuals) are also available online at <a
href="http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/">http://docs.FreeBSD.org/doc/</a>.</p>
<p>This documentation is provided and maintained by the
<a href="&base;/docproj/docproj.html">FreeBSD
Documentation Project</a>, and we are always looking for
people to contribute new documentation and maintain existing
documentation.</p>
<p>Papers, presentations, and videos about FreeBSD are archived
and catalogued on the
<a href="https://papers.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD Papers</a>
website.</p>
<h3>Books</h3>
<p><a href="&url.books;/dev-model/index.html">A project model for
the FreeBSD project</a> (dev-model)<br/>
A formal study of the organization of the FreeBSD project.</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/faq/index.html">The FreeBSD FAQ</a>
(faq)<br/>
Frequently Asked Questions, and answers, covering all aspects of
FreeBSD.</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/handbook/index.html">The FreeBSD
Handbook</a> (handbook)<br/>
A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD
users.</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/developers-handbook/index.html">The
FreeBSD Developers' Handbook</a> (developers-handbook)<br/>
For people who want to develop software for FreeBSD (and not
just people who are developing FreeBSD itself).</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/arch-handbook/index.html">The FreeBSD
Architecture Handbook</a> (arch-handbook)<br/>
For FreeBSD system developers. This book covers the
architectural details of many important FreeBSD kernel
subsystems.</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/porters-handbook/index.html">The Porter's
Handbook</a> (porters-handbook)<br/>
Essential reading if you plan on providing a port of a third
party piece of software.</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/design-44bsd/index.html">Chapter 2
of "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating
System"</a> (design-44bsd)<br/>
Donated by Addison-Wesley, provides a design overview of 4.4BSD,
from which FreeBSD was originally derived.</p>
<p><a href="&url.books;/fdp-primer/index.html">The FreeBSD
Documentation Project Primer for New Contributors</a>
(fdp-primer)<br/>
Everything you need to know in order to start contributing to
the FreeBSD Documentation Project.</p>
<a name="ARTICLES"></a><h3>Articles</h3>
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<p><a href="&url.articles;/bsdl-gpl/index.html">Why you should use
a BSD style license for your Open Source Project</a>
(bsdl-gpl)<br/>
Describes the benefits of releasing code under a BSD
license.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/building-products/index.html">Building
Products with FreeBSD</a> (building-products)<br/>
How FreeBSD can help you build a better product.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/committers-guide/index.html">The
Committer's Guide</a> (committers-guide)<br/>
Introductory information for FreeBSD committers.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/contributing/index.html">Contributing
to FreeBSD</a> (contributing)<br/>
How to contribute to the FreeBSD Project.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/contributors/index.html">The List of
FreeBSD Contributors</a> (contributors)<br/>
A list of organizations and individuals who have helped enhance
FreeBSD.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/cups/index.html">CUPS on &os;</a>
(cups)<br/>
How to setup CUPS with &os;.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/explaining-bsd/index.html">Explaining
BSD</a> (explaining-bsd)<br/>
An answer to the question ``What is BSD?''</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/filtering-bridges/index.html">Filtering
Bridges</a> (filtering-bridges)<br/>
Configuring firewalls and filtering on FreeBSD hosts acting as
bridges rather than routers.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/fonts/index.html">Fonts and FreeBSD</a>
(fonts)<br/>
A description of the various font technologies in FreeBSD, and
how to use them with different programs.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/freebsd-questions/index.html">How to
get the best results from the FreeBSD-questions mailing
list</a> (freebsd-questions)<br/>
Tips and tricks to help you maximize the chances of getting
useful information from the -questions mailing list.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/freebsd-update-server/index.html">Build
Your Own FreeBSD Update Server</a>
(freebsd-update-server)<br/>
Using a FreeBSD Update server allows a system administrator to
perform fast updates for a number of machines from a local
mirror.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/geom-class/index.html">Writing a GEOM
Class</a> (geom-class)<br/>
A guide to GEOM internals, and writing your own class.</p>
<p><a
href="&url.articles;/gjournal-desktop/index.html">Implementing
UFS journaling on a desktop PC</a> (gjournal-desktop)<br/>
A guide to create UFS partitions configured with journaling for
desktop use.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/hubs/index.html">Mirroring FreeBSD</a>
(hubs)<br/>
The all in one guide for mirroring the FreeBSD website,
FTP servers, and more.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/ipsec-must/index.html">Independent
Verification of IPsec Functionality in FreeBSD</a>
(ipsec-must)<br/>
A method for experimentally verifying IPsec functionality.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/ldap-auth/index.html">LDAP
Authentication</a> (ldap-auth)<br/>
A practical guide about setting up an LDAP server on &os; and
how to use it for authenticating users.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/leap-seconds/index.html">&os; Support
for Leap Seconds</a> (leap-seconds)<br/>
A short description of how leap seconds are handled on &os;.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/linux-emulation/index.html">Linux
emulation in &os;</a> (linux-emulation)<br/>
A technical description about the internals of the Linux
emulation layer in &os;.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/linux-users/index.html">&os; Quickstart
Guide for Linux Users</a> (linux-users)<br/>
An introductionary guide for the users that came from Linux.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/mailing-list-faq/index.html">Frequently
Asked Questions About The FreeBSD Mailing Lists</a>
(mailing-list-faq)<br/>
How to best use the mailing lists, such as how to help avoid
frequently-repeated discussions.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/nanobsd/index.html">Introduction to
NanoBSD</a> (nanobsd)<br/>
Information about the NanoBSD tools, which can be used to create
FreeBSD system images for embedded applications, suitable for
use on a Compact Flash card (or other mass storage medium).</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/new-users/index.html">FreeBSD First
Steps</a> (new-users)<br/>
For people coming to FreeBSD and &unix; for the first time.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/pam/index.html">Pluggable
Authentication Modules</a> (pam)<br/>
A guide to the PAM system and modules under FreeBSD.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/pgpkeys/index.html">OpenPGP Keys</a>
(pgpkeys)<br/>
All of the OpenPGP keys for &os;.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/port-mentor-guidelines/index.html">Port
Mentor Guidelines</a> (port-mentor-guidelines)<br/>
Guidelines for new and/or potential port mentors and
mentees.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/pr-guidelines/index.html">FreeBSD
Problem Report Handling Guidelines</a> (pr-guidelines)<br/>
Recommended practices for handling FreeBSD problem reports.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/problem-reports/index.html">Writing
FreeBSD Problem Reports</a> (problem-reports)<br/>
How to best formulate and submit a problem report to the FreeBSD
Project.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/rc-scripting/index.html">Practical rc.d
scripting in BSD</a> (rc-scripting)<br/>
A guide to writing new rc.d scripts and understanding those
already written.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/releng/index.html">FreeBSD Release
Engineering</a> (releng)<br/>
Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release engineering
team to make production quality releases of the FreeBSD
Operating System. It describes the tools available for those
interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases for
corporate rollouts or commercial productization.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/remote-install/index.html">Remote
Installation of the &os; Operating System without a
Remote Console</a> (remote-install)<br/>
Describes the remote installation of the &os; operating system
when the console of the remote system is unavailable.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/serial-uart/index.html">Serial and UART
devices</a> (serial-uart)<br/>
Detailed information about the use of serial ports on FreeBSD,
including several multi-port serial cards.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/solid-state/index.html">FreeBSD and
Solid State Devices</a> (solid-state)<br/>
The use of solid state disk devices in FreeBSD.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/vinum/index.html">The vinum Volume
Manager</a> (vinum)<br/>
Using gvinum to create RAID arrays.</p>
<p><a href="&url.articles;/vm-design/index.html">Design elements
of the FreeBSD VM system</a> (vm-design)<br/>
An easy to follow description of the design of the FreeBSD
virtual memory system.</p>
<h2>Articles on other web sites</h2>
<p>Various independent efforts have also produced a great deal of
useful information about FreeBSD.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Niels Jorgensen has authored an academic study on the
dynamics of the FreeBSD development process: <a
href="http://www.ruc.dk/~nielsj/research/publications/freebsd.pdf">``Putting
it All in the Trunk, Incremental Software Development in
the FreeBSD Open Source Project''</a> [Information Systems
Journal (2001) 11, 321-336].</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="mailto:mckusick@mckusick.com">Kirk McKusick</a>,
one of the original architects of BSD at U.C. Berkeley,
teaches two
<a href="http://www.mckusick.com/courses/">4.4BSD Kernel
Internals</a> courses using FreeBSD. For those unable to
attend the courses in person, a video tape series is also
now available.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/profiling_debugging_freebsd_kernel_321772.pdf">Profiling
and Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a
href="http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/debugging_buffer_overruns_322486.pdf">Debugging
Buffer Overruns in the FreeBSD Kernel</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Appendix A from the college textbook
<i>Operating Systems Concepts</i> by Silberschatz, Galvin
and Gagne has been made available online in <a
href="http://www.wiley.com/college/silberschatz6e/0471417432/pdf/bsd.pdf">PDF
format</a>. The appendix is dedicated to FreeBSD and
offers a good introduction to FreeBSD's internals.</p>
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