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# Appendix B. Bibliography

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.

## B.1. FreeBSD Bibliography

- 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

## B.2. Security Reference

- 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

## B.3. UNIX® History

- 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

## B.4. Periodicals, Journals, and Magazines

- 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: June 17, 2026 by Alexander Ziaee

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