Absolute FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a freely available UNIX-like operating system, used widely by Internet Service Providers, embedded systems, and anywhere where reliability on commodity hardware is paramount. FreeBSD is a result of almost three decades of continuous development, research, and refinement. BSD code is available for anyone to use under what is probably the most liberal license in the history of software development.

The long awaited and completely revised second edition of what has become the FreeBSD bible. FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas has brought the book up to date for FreeBSD 7.x, with the help of two dozen expert FreeBSD technical reviewers. This second edition of Absolute FreeBSD is sure to remain the perfect resource for FreeBSD system administrators. This straightforward, practical, and comprehensive book takes the reader through the intricacies of the platform and teaches how to build, configure, and manage a FreeBSD server, offering friendly explanations, background information, troubleshooting suggestions, and copious examples throughout. Coverage includes installation, backing up, using the GEOM disk tools and exporting disk devices across the network, chosing a kernel scheduler, building your own embedded devices, diskless FreeBSD, the latest anti-spam and anti-virus techniques and much more.