Related Resources of FreeBSD

The resources for FreeBSD are quite rich, while the old BSD Unix resources are also suitable for FreeBSD, including a large number of books, publications, and resources on the Internet. On the other hand FreeBSD has a large number of users and developers, directly related to FreeBSD resources are also quite rich.

Online documentation

The most commonly used reference for FreeBSD users is the system online manual, which allows you to view the details of common commands, system calls, C library functions, device drivers, and system configuration files using the man command. The manuals for the system are located in the/usr/share/man directory, and some of the application manuals are located in the/usr/local/share/man directory, and the X window program's manual is located in the/usr/x11r6/man directory. The user can change the environment variable Manpath to change the manual's lookup path.

For using a man to query a keyword, because a keyword may be either a common command or a system call, man will normally return only the first matching keyword. Since the manual is divided into 9 different parts by kind, such as the normal command in the first section, the C library function is in the third section, to find the contents of the manual, you must use parameters to specify a part of the manual, or to find all the matching keywords in the manual.

The GNU Info command can also be used to view online manuals, and has more features such as page-and-turn, connections to related commands, and more. The Free Software Foundation's GNU software, in addition to the online manuals, also provides info-format documents that are more suitable for using the info reading. The info document is usually located in the/usr/share/info directory.

In addition to the online manuals and the online info documentation, FreeBSD also provides a variety of documentation on the installation media, including 4.4B SD documents and FreeBSD documents that are placed under the/usr/share/doc directory when the system is installed. One of the most useful is the FreeBSD manual (FreeBSD Handbook) and FAQs (FreeBSD FAQ), which are useful learning and reference materials for FreeBSD users. Both of these data provide hypertext HTML format for online reading, PS format and standard plain text format for printouts. If the documentation is installed when FreeBSD is installed, the documents will be placed in the/usr/share/doc/handbook and/usr/share/doc/faq directories. These online documents can be found in the FreeBSD home page HT tp://www.freebsd.org.

Publications

The most important official publications are the FreeBSD CD-ROM that users can use to install the FreeBSD system. F Reebsd Each official release of the CD-ROM is issued by Walnet Creek, the general FreeBSD of the official release of 4 CD-ROM, in addition to the basic installation system also includes a large number of software, software source code and related information. There is also a Cheapbyte CD publishing company that sells FreeBSD discs at a cheaper price. These CD-ROM publications can not be bought directly in domestic bookstores, only to contact them directly to order. If you wish to have a complete CD-ROM, you can contact them from their web site.

Walnet Creek cdrom:http://www.cdrom.com

Cheapbyte:http://www.cheapbyte.com

FreeBSD is a successor to BSD Unix, and the books that apply to BSD Unix are perfectly suited for FreeBSD. Because of the impact of B SD Unix, particularly its impact on education and academia, many UNIX books are based on BSD Unix, so you can use published UNIX books to learn and use FreeBSD. Even for Unix System v books, the basic UNIX usage and operations are consistent and also helpful to FreeBSD users. Just be aware that Unix System V and BSD Unix are different in the context of deeper systems management and UNIX programming. So in reading these UNIX books, understand that these books are for that kind of Unix, to understand the size of the differences between it and FreeBSD.

Books written for Unix will not include FreeBSD installation, Setup, etc. that are closely related to the specific system. Content directly related to FreeB SD is included only in FreeBSD manuals or reference books that are written directly for FreeBSD readers. In the FreeBSD field, the most famous English book is Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD", which is a fairly complete English F Reebsd guide book, also published by Walnet Creek. The FreeBSD books in Chinese have Li Jianda "Freebs D Introduction and Application" in Taiwan. Neither of these books is officially published in China and is difficult to buy.