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Some links about Opensource, about UNIX history, FreeBSD and so on. Essential links for every user of a real heir to original UNIX. Don't mimic, do the real stuff
The BSD operating systems are not clones, but open source derivatives of AT&T's Research UNIX operating system, which is also the ancestor of the modern UNIX System V. […].
FreeBSD.org - A brief history about FreeBSD
FreeBSD wiki - lot of useful information
FreeBSD foundation - advocating FreeBSD
FreeBSD vs Linux - read it, understand it
Dru Lavignes blog - A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru
Greg Leheys The Complete FreeBSD - the bible of FreeBSD for free
The FreeBSD Diary - articles about FreeBSD
Daemon Dancing in the Dark - useful information for FreeBSD
Freshports - FreeBSD ports database
The FreeBSD Ports Monitoring System - broken ports/problem with ports
Planet FreeBSD - what's going on in FreeBSD
Joel@ FreeBSD development projects in perforce
FreeBSD mailinglists - essential information
IBM developerworks - Why FreeBSD
BSD myths - fighting urban legends
FreeBSD in the enterprise - an introduction for Linux users
Firewalling with PF (Firewall for FreeBSD)
Opensource.org - definition, infos about the different licences
O'Reilly - Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming
UNIX - derkeiler.com - search the newsgroups
O'Reillys OnLamp BSD devcenter
Tribug BSD familiy tree (diagram)
AllBSD - information about the BSDs (German/English)
Wikipedia - Comparsion of BSD operating systems
BSDforums.org - forum about BSD
BSDnews - news for all BSD systems
Dru Lavigne: Comparing Linux to BSD
BSDguides - guides to all kind of BSDs
BSDnexus - forum and other useful informations
BSDTalk - audio interviews and informations
BSD vs. GPL: A Framework for the Social Analysis
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System
German/English flyers about *BSD
UFS Filesystem - journaling vs snapshots
Filesystem - running fsck in the background
20 Years of Berkeley Unix: From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
Greg Lehey - What's that daemon?
Robert Watson - How to be an Advocate for BSD
Dennis Richie, Courtpapers about USL vs. BSDI lawsuit
An interview with BSD veteran Keith Bostic
BSD Certification, Creating the Standard for BSD Certification
BSDInstall - Installationshilfen für alle BSDs
FreeBSD die ersten Schritte - eine kleine Einführung
BSDBox - Blog mit vielen Tipps
die deutschen Mailinglisten zu FreeBSD
from hades - häufiger Infos zu BSD/FreeBSD
Die Daemonen, die ich rief ... FreeBSD als Alternative zu Linux