While manual pages provide a definitive reference for individual pieces of the FreeBSD operating system, they seldom illustrate how to put the pieces together to make the whole operating system run smoothly. For this, there is no substitute for a good book or users' manual on UNIX® system administration.
Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide To FreeBSD , Third Edition, published by No Starch Press , 2018. ISBN: 978-1593278922
FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials , published by Tilted Windmill Press , 2014. ISBN: 978-1642350098
FreeBSD Mastery: Specialty Filesystems , published by Tilted Windmill Press , 2015. ISBN: 978-1642350111
FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS , published by Tilted Windmill Press , 2015. ISBN: 978-1642350005
FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS , published by Tilted Windmill Press , 2016. ISBN: 978-0692688687
FreeBSD Mastery: Jails , published by Tilted Windmill Press , 2019. ISBN: 978-1642350241
FreeBSD Device Drivers: A Guide for the Intrepid , published by No Starch Press , 2012. ISBN: 978-1593272043
The Design And Implementation Of The Freebsd Operating System , Second Edition, published by Pearson Education, Inc. , 2014. ISBN: 978-0321968975
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook , Fifth Edition, published by Pearson Education, Inc. , 2017. ISBN: 978-0134277554
Designing BSD Rootkits , published by No Starch Press , 2007. ISBN: 978-1593271428
FreeBSD Jails using VNETs , published in gumroad
The Book of PF: A No-Nonsense Guide to the OpenBSD Firewall , Third Edition, published by No Starch Press , 2014. ISBN: 978-1593275891
SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels, and Keys , Second Edition, 2018. ISBN: 978-1642350029
Lion, John Lion’s Commentary on UNIX, 6th Ed. With Source Code . ITP Media Group, 1996. ISBN 1573980137
Raymond, Eric S. The New Hacker’s Dictionary, 3rd edition . MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. Also known as the Jargon File
Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX . Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5
Simon Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann. The UNIX-HATERS Handbook . IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56884-203-1. Out of print, but available online .
Don Libes, Sandy Ressler Life with UNIX - special edition. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. ISBN 0-13-536657-7
The BSD family tree . https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/misc/bsd-family-tree or /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree on a FreeBSD machine.
Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library .
Old BSD releases from the Computer Systems Research group (CSRG) . http://www.mckusick.com/csrg/ : The 4CD set covers all BSD versions from 1BSD to 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite2 (but not 2.11BSD, unfortunately). The last disk also holds the final sources plus the SCCS files.
Kernighan, Brian Unix: A History and a Memoir . Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-169597855-3
Admin Magazin (in German), published by Medialinx AG. ISSN: 2190-1066
BSD Now - Video Podcast , published by Jupiter Broadcasting LLC
FreeBSD Journal , published by S&W Publishing, sponsored by The FreeBSD Foundation. ISBN: 978-0-615-88479-0
Last modified on : February 18, 2025 by Fernando Apesteguía