FreeBSD Handbook

The FreeBSD Handbook comes with the full FreeBSD Operating System
on CDROM. FreeBSD is a powerful, professional quality
UNIX-compatible operating system. This book is the most
comprehensive documentation set available from the FreeBSD
Documentation Project. It covers installation, day-to-day use of
FreeBSD, advanced system administration topics, and much more.

The following changes have been made since the first edition:

• A complete index has been added.


• All ASCII figures have been replaced by graphical diagrams.



• A standard synopsis has been added to each chapter to give a
  quick summary of what information the chapter contains, and what
  the reader is expected to know.



• The content has been logically reorganized into three
  parts:(1)Getting Started, (2)System Administration and
  (3)Appendices.



• Chapter 2 ("Installing FreeBSD") was completely rewritten with
  many screenshots added to make it easier for new users to grasp
  the text.



• Chapter 3 ("Unix Basics") has been expanded to contain
  additional information about processes, daemons, and signals.



• Chapter 4 ("Installing Applications") has been expanded to
  contain additional information about binary package management.



• Chapter 5 ("The X Window System") has been completely rewritten
  with an emphasis on using modern desktop technologies such as KDE
  and GNOME on XFree86 4.x.



• Chapter 6 ("Configuration and Tuning") is a new chapter for this
  edition!



• Chapter 7 ("The FreeBSD Booting Process") has been expanded.



• Chapter 12 ("Storage") has been rewritten from what used to be
  two separate chapters on "Disks" and "Backups". We feel that the
  topics are easier to comprehend when presented as a single
  chapter. A section on RAID (both hardware and software) has also
  been added.



• Chapter 14 ("Sound") is a new chapter for this edition!



• Chapter 17 ("Advanced Networking") has been expanded with many
  new sections about DNS, connection sharing, and more.



• Chapter 18 ("Electronic Mail") has been expanded to include more
  information about configuring sendmail.



• Chapter 20 ("Linux Compatibility") has been expanded to include
  information about installing Oracle and SAP/R3.