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[edit] Humorous
Uncyclopedia entry : http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD
"I heard that BSD is dying on $X blog site !!!! IS IT ?!?!?!" - http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1391352
[edit] Quick help
- HANDBOOK HANDBOOK HANDBOOK has almost ALL of what you need and alomost NONE of what you don't (hint: read the handbook).
- The "FreeBSD-Newbies First Aid Kit" posting from docs@ Here
- The official newbie page
[edit] Comparison charts
- Chart comparing the FreeBSD firewalls
- Chart comparing and contrasting FreeBSD, Linux and the Windows family of OSes
[edit] BSD advocacy
http://www.spreadbsd.org/
[edit] Some general BSD background
- http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200104/bsd_family.html
- http://www.feu-nrmf.ph/norbert/misc/bsd_powerful_and_mostly_free.html
If you have an understanding of unix, and want to get the basis of FreeBSD, these man pages should spell out some of the features in FreeBSD :
man hier - describes the layout of the filesystem man ports - describes the port/packages way of dealing with 3rd party software
[edit] Coming from non-unix
http://www.unix.com/tips-and-tutorials/19060-unix-file-permissions.html A short course in permissions in the filesystem
[edit] Coming from OS X
OS X is UNIX, BSD is not : http://blog.ngas.ch/archives/2007/08/01/MacOS_X:_UNIX_not_BSD/
[edit] Coming from linux, wanting to understand BSD :
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/ http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php
[edit] Coming from Linux, wanting to use BSD
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/11/11/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html FreeBSD equivalents for linux commands Using the Ext2 filesystem under FreeBSD Differences in addressing filesystems
[edit] Coming from anywhere, wanting to run FreeBSD
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-freebsd/ http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html
[edit] Booting from GRUB
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/FreeBSD.html#FreeBSD
[edit] Greg Lehey's definitive, The Complete FreeBSD
The Complete FreeBSD
[edit] Binary compatibility (of various flavors)
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/linux_bsd_kld.html - a Linux emulation layer for device drivers http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html
