Absolute BSD : the ultimate guide to free BSD

Michael W. Lucas is a network/security engineer with extensive experience working with high-availability systems. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Absolute BSD , Absolute OpenBSD , Cisco Routers for the Desperate , and PGP & GPG , all from No Starch Press. FreeBSD is a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system, and the preferred server platform for many enterprises. Includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SCSI & RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, monitoring, crash debugging, BSD in the office, and emulating other OSs. Michael Lucas is one of only about 200 FreeBSD committers, a FreeBSD columnist for the O'Reilly Network, and a contributor to Sys Admin Magazine. He has been a pet wrangler, a librarian, a security consultant, and now works as a network engineer and systems administrator. Find out more on his website at www.absolutebsd.com.

FreeBSD is a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system, and the preferred server platform for many enterprises. Includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SCSI & RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, monitoring, crash debugging, BSD in the office, and emulating other OSs.

Designed for new system administrators with basic UNIX knowledge, this guide's main focus is on FreeBSD and how to build a high-performance server, secure it, prepare crash dumps and interoperate with other systems.

FreeBSD, the powerful, flexible, and free Unix-based operating system, is the preferred server for many enterprises. But it can be even trickier to use than either Unix or Linux, and harder to use well. Absolute BSD is your complete guide to BSD, written by a FreeBSD committer and with the support of the BSD community. It covers installation, networking, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, file systems, SMP, upgrading, crash debugging, and much more. This complete guide to FreeBSD includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, system performance, kernel tweaking, filesystems, SCSI and RAID configurations, SMP, upgrading, monitoring, crash debugging, BSD in the office, and emulating other OSs Before you can learn to run FreeBSD, you need to install it.