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Here is your complete guide to FreeBSD installation, configuration, and use with full coverage of FreeBSD-specific material such as its own configuration files and kernel. The bonus CD-ROM contains the latest version of FreeBSD.
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Your complete guide to FreeBSD installation, configuration, and use with full coverage of FreeBSD-specific materials such as its own configuration files and kernel. Softcover. CD-ROM included.
From the Inside Flap
The Definitive Resource on FreeBSD Why run FreeBSD? Based on UNIX, FreeBSD is a highly stable, flexible operating system that can be used in a wide range of computing applications. This all-you-need book is a comprehensive guide to FreeBSD installation, file and kernel configuration, operation, and more. Integrate this powerful OS with your existing hardware and software, and take advantage of system management and administration benefits, graphic and office tools--even multimedia and gaming features. Whether you're a home user or an IT professional seeking a reliable, fully supported OS solution, let FreeBSD: The Complete Reference help you realize the power and functionality of this open-source tool. Check compatibility issues, prepare your system, and install FreeBSD Run non-BSD UNIX, Linux, DOS, and Windows programs Configure basic and dial-up networking Operate office and graphics software, play games, run multimedia programs, and more Implement file, Web, login, and mail servers Understand ownership, permissions, and file-manipulation commands Locate, install, and use FreeBSD software Modify, recompile, and upgrade kernels Use GNOME or KDE, create your own desktop environment, or utilize text-mode commands Implement system maintenance and security functions CD-ROM contains latest software version--FreeBSD 5.0
From the Back Cover
The Definitive Resource on FreeBSD
Why run FreeBSD? Based on UNIX, FreeBSD is a highly stable, flexible operating system that can be used in a wide range of computing applications. This all-you-need book is a comprehensive guide to FreeBSD installation, file and kernel configuration, operation, and more. Integrate this powerful OS with your existing hardware and software, and take advantage of system management and administration benefits, graphic and office tools--even multimedia and gaming features. Whether you're a home user or an IT professional seeking a reliable, fully supported OS solution, let FreeBSD: The Complete Reference help you realize the power and functionality of this open-source tool. Check compatibility issues, prepare your system, and install FreeBSD Run non-BSD UNIX, Linux, DOS, and Windows programs Configure basic and dial-up networking Operate office and graphics software, play games, run multimedia programs, and more Implement file, Web, login, and mail servers Understand ownership, permissions, and file-manipulation commands Locate, install, and use FreeBSD software Modify, recompile, and upgrade kernels Use GNOME or KDE, create your own desktop environment, or utilize text-mode commands Implement system maintenance and security functions
CD-ROM contains latest software version--FreeBSD 5.0
About the Author
Roderick W. Smith is a self-employed computer book author. He is the author of eight other computer books, primarily on Linux, networking, and multi-OS computing.
FreeBSD: The Complete Reference FROM OUR EDITORS
The Barnes & Noble Review
Maybe youﾽre already running FreeBSD. Maybe youﾽre experimenting with it, attracted by its reputation for rock-solid reliability and immense power (not to mention its price -- or lack thereof). Maybe your boss just told you: Go get Apache running on FreeBSD. Youﾽre looking for a great FreeBSD book. Weﾽve got one.
Roderick Smith begins with some desperately needed context: what FreeBSD is, where it came from, how itﾽs similar to Linux and Unix, and what itﾽs suited for. Next, Smith walks through installation, which may involve unfamiliar steps (for example, using FIPS to shrink an existing partition).
After a quick look at basic text-mode commands and the GNOME graphical interface, Smith moves into system administration. Youﾽll check out your systemﾽs configuration files, master important ﾽinformation and manipulationﾽ commands, and take control over startup, partitions, files, and accounts. Smith also illuminates the FreeBSD printing model, and shows how to set up GhostScript to print PostScript files on non-PostScript printers.
There are detailed chapters on installing software, configuring kernels, and managing X Window, plus an entire section on network and firewall configuration. Smith systematically walks through setting up FreeBSD file, mail, web, login, DHCP, DNS, time, and font servers. He also reviews FreeBSD software, from web browsers to OpenOffice.org. Smith doesnﾽt hesitate to mention problems -- for example, limitations imposed by FreeBSDﾽs relatively primitive font handling.
Thereﾽs extensive coverage of system maintenance -- automated and otherwise -- and a full chapter on security. The CD-ROM contains a working FreeBSD system -- as much as will fit on one disk. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Here is your complete guide to FreeBSD installation, configuration, and use with full coverage of FreeBSD-specific material such as its own configuration files and kernel. The bonus CD-ROM contains the latest version of FreeBSD.
SYNOPSIS
The Definitive Resource on FreeBSD
Why run FreeBSD? Based on UNIX, FreeBSD is a highly stable, flexible operating system that can be used in a wide range of computing applications. This all-you-need book is a comprehensive guide to FreeBSD installation, file and kernel configuration, operation, and more. Integrate this powerful OS with your existing hardware and software, and take advantage of system management and administration benefits, graphic and office tools—even multimedia and gaming features. Whether you're a home user or an IT professional seeking a reliable, fully supported OS solution, let FreeBSD: The Complete Reference help you realize the power and functionality of this open-source tool. Check compatibility issues, prepare your system, and install FreeBSD Run non-BSD UNIX, Linux, DOS, and Windows programs Configure basic and dial-up networking Operate office and graphics software, play games, run multimedia programs, and more Implement file, Web, login, and mail servers Understand ownership, permissions, and file-manipulation commands Locate, install, and use FreeBSD software Modify, recompile, and upgrade kernels Use GNOME or KDE, create your own desktop environment, or utilize text-mode commands Implement system maintenance and security functions
CD-ROM contains latest software version—FreeBSD 5.0
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
These three guides cover version 5.0 of the most popular flavor of BSD, the "other" open-source, UNIX-like OS. A useful, friendly, and thorough guide for novices to intermediate users, Complete FreeBSD addresses initial installation, from setting up domain name servers to building and debugging custom kernels. Discussion of configuration files that may need changing and instructions on upgrading are particularly clear and helpful; appendixes provide a bibliography and a discussion of the evolution of the OS; highly recommended. Unleashed includes more information on various applications and working with window managers to manipulate FreeBSD's graphical interface ("X"). A command and configuration file reference, hardware compatibility lists, troubleshooting information, and additional resources make up the appendix, while the CD-ROM contains FreeBSD 5.0, additional languages, utilities, and packages. Although more comprehensive coverage-wise, Unleashed is less clear in its directions. Still, useful cautions and tips do help guide newer users. Complete Reference features FreeBSD v.5.0, in addition to tools and utilities on CD-ROM. Notes and tips provide extra information, and its troubleshooting and maintenance sections are helpful for newer users. Each is appropriate for beginning to intermediate users and large libraries. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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