This comprehensive advanced reference is what FreeBSD professionals are seeking!
About the Author(s): Michael Urban has been working with FreeBSD and various other Unix operating systems for about six years. He has worked as a technical analyist, technical support representative, webmaster, and freelance technical author. He has experience teaching users how to use various computer technologies and applications. Brian Tiemann is the owner and administrator of lionking.org, a site that runs on Apache and FreeBSD and receives an average of about 2,500 visitors a day. Technology/Topic Overview: FreeBSD is a freely available Unix system based on the 4.4BSD distribution from the University of California at Berkeley. It is an open source project developed by volunteers all over the world. FreeBSD is extremely robust and powers some of the largest internet sites in the world including Yahoo!, and the Internet Movie Database. It has also been used for other high end applications, such as special effects rendering in movies. The special effects in The Matrix were rendered on a cluster of FreeBSD systems. It has thousands of applications available including web servers, database systems, mail servers, office applications, web browsers, and software for file and print sharing with Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware, and Apple networks. Book/Product Content Summary: This book teaches the reader everything he/she needs to know in order to use FreeBSD to its full potential. It will show individuals how to put the same FreeBSD power that Yahoo!, the Internet Movie Database, and many other high profile internet sites depend on to work. Whether someone needs an enterprise class server, a small business server, or a dependable workstation, this book can be a very economical and powerful solution to your needs. Audience: The audience for this book includes FreeBSD system administrators, developers, web masters, database administrators, database developers, and corporate information technology managers. The audience experience level includes intermediate and advanced users who want this volume due to its valuable coverage of a wide selection of essential topics. PART I: Introduction to FreeBSD Chapter 1: What is FreeBSD? Chapter 2: Installing FreeBSD Chapter 3: Installing FreeBSD on a Shared System PART II: Using FreeBSD Chapter 4: Your First Session with FreeBSD Chapter 5: Working With the Gnome Desktop Environment Chapter 6: Customizing the Gnome Desktop Environment Chapter 7: Working With Applications PART III: Administering FreeBSD Chapter 8: The FreeBSD File System Chapter 9: Users, Groups and Permissions Chapter 10: System Configuration and Startup Scripts Chapter 11: Working With the Shell Chapter 12: Performance Monitoring, Process Control, and Job Automation Chapter 13: Installing Additional Software Chapter 14: Printing Chapter 15: Kernel Configuration Chapter 16: Keeping up to Date With FreeBSD Chapter 17: Understanding Hard Disks and File Systems Chapter 18: FreeBSD Survival Guide Chapter 19: Introduction to Script Programming PART IV: FreeBSD Networking Chapter 20: Introduction to Networking Chapter 21: Configuring Basic Networking Services Chapter 22: Connecting to the Internet with PPP Chapter 23:Configuring Email Services Chapter 24: Configuring a Web Server Chapter 25: Configuring an FTP Server Chapter 26: Configuring an Internet Gateway Chapter 27: Network Security Chapter 28: The Domain Name Server Chapter 29: The Network File System (NFS) Chapter 30: File and Print Sharing With Microsoft Windows Chapter 31: Miscellaneous Networking Topics PART V: X-Windows Chapter 32: Advanced X-Windows Configuration Chapter 33: Customizing the X-Windows System PART VI: Appendixes Appendix A:Command Reference Appendix B: Hardware Compatibility Lists Appendix C: Troubleshooting Installation Problems Appendix D: Sources for More Information |
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