FreeBSD

An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC

This book is a friendly, task-oriented introduction to FreeBSD, 
a free, open-source, industrial strength operating system 
that runs on a personal computer (the same computer that runs 
Microsoft Windows) for users new to both FreeBSD and UNIX.

FreeBSD: An Open Source Operating System for 
Your Personal Computer includes:

* installation CD-ROM for the entire system plus many software applications

* space requirements, screen shots, and detailed instructions 
  for installing FreeBSD

* step-by-step instructions on configuring and running FreeBSD, 
  connecting to the Internet, setting up an internal network, and 
  setting up sound, X Window (the graphical user interface), and printing.

Based on the UNIX developed at the University of California at Berkeley, 
FreeBSD is a major competitor to Linux for running Internet servers, 
the computers that handle electronic mail for many uses, provide files 
for download, and serve web pages.

With this book and the included installation CD-ROM, individual users can 
install FreeBSD and run a system that goes beyond Microsoft Windows 
in capability, stability, and flexibility, provides full source code, 
and makes available thousands of ready-to-install third-party software 
programs (most of them free) including electronic mail, desktop applications, 
Netscape, programming languages, graphics, and web servers and other 
Internet applications.

Annelise Anderson is a fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.


The Bit Tree Press

ISBN 0-9712045-0-0