FreeBSD (The Complete FreeBSD without CDs)

Everything you ever wanted to know about how to get your computer up and running FreeBSD. Does not include CDs.
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February 1998 $29.95
 

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FreeBSD is a full, professional quality UNIX operating system. FreeBSD includes:

  • Simple CDROM installation
  • Easy switching between multiple operating systems.
  • Rock-stable performance.
  • Complete development environment.

FreeBSD is based on Berkeley 4.4 BSD, developed by the University of California at Berkeley, and its contributors. FreeBSD comes with complete development environment with GNU C and C++ compilers and GDB debugger. It also comes with packages such as PERL, TCL, scheme, logo, forth, basic, ICON and GNU emacs. For printing you get TeX, ghostscript, Hylafax and AFM fonts. The provided bash, csh, zsh and tcsh shells give you a rich choice of operating environments. FreeBSD supports ISO 9660 and RockRidge format CDs.

Walnut Creek CDROM relies exclusively on FreeBSD for our 130 Gigabyte, 2750 user ftp and www machine at ftp.cdrom.com. You'll get network support including:

  • World-Wide-Web servers.
  • Berkeley-style TCP/IP networking services (telnet, ftp, etc).
  • Industry standard NFS, NIS and AMD servers with PPP and SLIP support make networking a breeze!
  • Full USENET News and mail reading software (nntp, trn, elm, pop, pine, mh).

FreeBSD comes with the industry standard X Window system (X11R6) for the PC, XFree86. You also get a rich set of ready-to-run X utilities such as fvwm window manager, TCL/Tk, Xaw3d, xjpeg, etc. The system also comes with complete source code. FreeBSD provides a tightly integrated build system that lets you recompile the entire source tree with one command.

This book helps you take your first steps with FreeBSD, from installing the system to getting to know the environment. You'll read about detailed descriptions of the installation process, including how to share disks between FreeBSD and other operating systems. You'll also learn to install and configure your X Window System, get to know FreeBSD, and reconfigure your FreeBSD kernel.

Requirements: Standard ISA, EISA, VL, or PCI bus based PC (386sx to Pentium), 8 MB RAM. 60 MB disk space for a binary-only system and 340 MB for development system.

"If you want stable networking or a powerful development environment, FreeBSD is the operating system for you."