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Interesting FreeBSD Links

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html

http://www.freebsddiary.org/
http://www.freebsdzine.org/
http://www.daemonnews.org/
http://www.dvl-software.com/freebsd/
http://www.freebsdrocks.com/

FreeBSD in comparison to other Unix systems

German USENET article from de.comp.os.bsd, 16.12.1999
Martin Cracauer talks about the differences between FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
and talks about application problems with RedHat, that shows the strenghts of the "Cathedral" and the weaks of the "basaar" model.

How-To's

http://www.freebsdrocks.com/p-howto.php3

My Work for FreeBSD

• Added tape erase command in the FreeBSD kernel and mt command

  • src/sys/scsi/st.c

  • src/sys/scsi/scsi_tape.h

  • src/usr.bin/mt/mt.c

• Teached dump command to show the throughput ("stolen" from ufsdump, Solaris 2)

  • src/sbin/dump/dump.8

  • src/sbin/dump/dump.h

  • src/sbin/dump/main.c

• I'm maintaining some ports in the FreeBSD ports collection

• Kernel Compilation Benchmarks for FreeBSD-SMP (symmetric multiprocessing)

• FreeBSD support in mailinglists and newsgroups as time permits

• Publications about Unix, FreeBSD, Net- and OpenBSD, BSDI

• Some review work for Greg Lehey's Book "The Complete FreeBSD",
  ~1750 pages, ships with FreeBSD 2.2.6 (incl. 4 CD-ROM, Life Filesystem, CVS Repository, Ports Collection, Sources,...)
   

The 4 CD-ROM gives you a blindingly fast operating system with complete sources, CVS repository and life filesystem.  The book covers the following areas:  Running & Installing (Introduction, Before you install, Quick installation, Installing FreeBSD, Shared OS installation, Installation problems, pages 1-90)  Using FreeBSD (The Ports Collection, Setting up X11, XFree86 configuration in depth, Making friends with FreeBSD, Files systems, Disks, tapes, backups and floppy disks, Printers, Setting up your FreeBSD Desktop, Rebuilding the kernel, Keeping up to date with FreeBSD, Emulating other operating systems, pages 91-296)  FreeBSD and the Internet (Networks and the internet, Configuring the local network, Connecting to the internet, Serial communications and modems, Configuring PPP, UUCP and SLIP, The Domain Name Service, Firewalls and IP aliasing, Network debugging, The Network File System, Basic network access, Electronic mails, The World-Wide Web, HylaFax, Connecting to non-IP networks, pages 297-498)  Essential Manpages (selected man pages in alphabetical order, pages 499-1605)  Appendix A - Terminology (pages 1607f)  Appendix B - FreeBSD configuration files (pages 1609ff) Appendix C - Command equivalents (pages 1623ff)  Appendix D - Content of the Ports Collection (pages 1627ff)  Appendix E - Bibliography (pages 1677ff)  Appendix F - License Agreements (pages 1681ff)  Index - pages 1689-1724  About the author  - page 1725

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last edited: 12.09.2004