Misc helpful links

From FBSD_tips

A random collection of links

• Booting
  • Dual booting with windows vista http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/FreeBSD_&_Windows_Vista
  • The vista recovery disk : http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/
• Drives
  • Gmirroring : https://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/Gmirror
• Number 1 most helpful link : The Handbook : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
• The official status reports : http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/
• The FreeBSD support page : http://www.freebsd.org/support.html
• Security
  • Official security information for FreeBSD : http://security.freebsd.org/
  • Security wiki : http://www.bsdsec.com/Main/Hardening
  • Hardening freebsd form littlewhitedog.com : http://littlewhitedog.com/content-72.html
• Where to buy cool FreeBSD stuff : http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/index?id=Kenw5sx4&mv_pc=120
• Oreilly' BSD pages : http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/
  • Booting to Gmirror : here (dated 2005, but the gmirror specific parts are fine for 6.X as well)
• General FreeBSD links
  • query the PR database here
• FreeBSD 7.X stuff
  • What is cooking for FBSD 7 : [here]
  • Download 7 RC ISOs : [here]
• Filesystems
  • Ext2 : Read/Writable by Freebsd (here), Windows (here) and Linux (of course!)
  • ZFS http://www.unixconsult.org/zfs_vs_lvm.html
• Presentation on freebsd firewalls with a point by point chart comparing starting on page 8 here
  • An update chart based on it Firewall feature comparison
• Helpful links for people not intimately familiar with FreeBSD : Travellers from other OSes
• Stuff that goes bump in the night
• X11
  • X11 desktop issues
  • Gnome on FreeBSD
  • KDE on FreeBSD
• Products related to FBSD
• Useful and unique ports
• Jail
  • http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html - Jails: Confining the omnipotent root.
  • http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/03/09/jails-virtualization.html
• http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/security.html - Security FAQ
• http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html - Reflections on Trusting Trust, Ken Thompson
• Preview of BSD Hacks
• Networking
  • Netgraph intro http://web.archive.org/web/20061013060805/http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200003/netgraph.html
  • List of IPv6 addresses by country allocation (from chronos_uk in ##freebsd on freenode ... thnx!) http://www.chronos.org.uk/ipv6/
  • MAC address lookup : http://coffer.com/mac_find/
  • Mac prefixes as a text file : http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
  • TCP/IP guide : http://www.tcpipguide.com/
  • UIUC's socket and TCP whirlwind
  • DNS
    • http://www.dnsstuff.com/
    • http://zeus.ecinox.com/index.php/the-continuing-denial-of-service-threat-posed-by-dns-recursion/
    • A web page script that creates DNS records for you here (it doesn't seem to make PTR records)
• How to make a FreeBSD DVD
• FreeBSD hosting services
  • M5 hosting : http://www.m5hosting.com/
• LDAP
  • AD authentication from FreeBSD
• SHELLS
  • Bash
    • Bash FAQ