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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. […].


Greg Lehey - Explaining BSD

DesktopBSD/FreeBSD

Wikipedia FreeBSD

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

The FreeBSD manpages

The famous FreeBSD handbook

Freshports - FreeBSD ports database

The FreeBSD Ports Monitoring System - broken ports/problem with ports

Planet FreeBSD - what's going on in FreeBSD

FreeBSD is NOT Windows

Joel@ FreeBSD development projects in perforce

FreeBSD mailinglists - essential information

IBM developerworks - Why FreeBSD

BSD myths - fighting urban legends

How to install FreeBSD

FreeBSD in the enterprise - an introduction for Linux users

Why FreeBSD is great.

Firewalling with PF (Firewall for FreeBSD)

Abstract to FreeBSD 7 aka current

FreeBSD laptop database

Opensource in common

GROKLAW - opensource history

Opensource.org - definition, infos about the different licences

Wikipedia opensource

O'Reilly - Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

Eric Raymond - The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Wikibooks Opensource

Why Opensource - article about free software/opensource

UNIX in common

UNIX tutorial for beginners

Bell Labs - history of UNIX

UNIXhelp for users

Wikipedia UNIX

UNIX in 10 minutes

UNIX history (diagram)

Greg Lehey - UNIX history

Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming

UNIX - derkeiler.com - search the newsgroups

UNIX shell differences and how to change your shell

Unixica - a tribute to the Unix and its people

BSD in common

Explaining BSD

Wikipedia BSD

O'Reillys OnLamp BSD devcenter

Tribug BSD familiy tree (diagram)

BSDFreak - BSD news

DaemonNews - BSD news

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

BSD: Linux with a Twist

BSDnexus - forum and other useful informations

BSDTalk - audio interviews and informations

BSD vs Linux

BSD vs. GPL: A Framework for the Social Analysis

The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System

The BSD family tree

German/English flyers about *BSD

UFS Filesystem - journaling vs snapshots

Litte UFS2 FAQ

The Solaris UFS filesystem

Filesystem - running fsck in the background

Dru's blog about BSD

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

Deutsche Quellen

FreeBSD in Deutsch

Das deutsche FreeBSD Handbuch

Das Forum von BSDGroup

BSDInstall - Installationshilfen für alle BSDs

Das Wiki von BSDGroup

FreeBSD Tipps auf F!XMBR

FreeBSD Tipps auf Chruetertee

Wikipedia (de) FreeBSD

Wikipedia (de) BSD

FreeBSD die ersten Schritte - eine kleine Einführung

BSDBox - Blog mit vielen Tipps

die deutschen Mailinglisten zu FreeBSD

grUNIX - Blog zu *BSD

from hades - häufiger Infos zu BSD/FreeBSD

Die Daemonen, die ich rief ... FreeBSD als Alternative zu Linux

BSDGroup.de - neues Forum (Jan 2007) zu BSD

Softupdates: eine Erklärung von Jörg Wunsch