While the manual pages provide the definitive reference for individual pieces of the FreeBSD operating system, they are notorious for not illustrating how to put the pieces together to make the whole operating system run smoothly. For this, there is no substitute for a good book on UNIX system administration and a good users' manual. Users' guides

Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD User's Reference Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-075-9 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-076-7 UNIX in a Nutshell. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990. ISBN 093717520X has written a which is available online in HTML and postscript format. Administrators' guides

Albitz, Paul and Liu, Cricket. DNS and BIND. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993. ISBN 1-56592-010-4 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-080-5 Costales, Brian, et al. Sendmail. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993. ISBN 1-56592-056-2 Frisch, Æleen. Essential System Administration. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1993. ISBN 0-937175-80-3 Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-937175-82-X Nemeth, Evi. UNIX System Administration Handbook. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0131510517 Programmers' guides

Asente, Paul. X Window System Toolkit. Digital Press. ISBN 1-55558-051-3 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD Programmer's Reference Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-078-3 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-079-1 Ellis, Margaret A. and Stroustrup, Bjarne. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley, 1990. ISBN 0-201-51459-1 Harbison, Samuel P. and Steele, Guy L. Jr. C: A Reference Manual. 4rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-326224-3 Kernighan, Brian and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language.. PTR Prentice Hall, 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-9 Plauger, P. J. The Standard C Library. Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-131509-9 Stevens, W. Richard. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1992 ISBN 0-201-56317-7 Stevens, W. Richard. UNIX Network Programming. PTR Prentice Hall, 1990. ISBN 0-13-949876-1 Wells, Bill. "Writing Serial Drivers for UNIX". Dr. Dobb's Journal. 19(15), December 1994. pp68-71, 97-99. Operating System Internals

Jolitz, William. "Porting UNIX to the 386". Dr. Dobb's Journal. January 1991-July 1992. Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John Quarterman The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System: Answer Book. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-54629-9 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63346-9 Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP and the UNIX Domain Protocols. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63495-3 Wright, Gary R. and W. Richard Stevens. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-63354-X Security reference

Cheswick, William R. and Steven M. Bellovin. Firewalls and Internal Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 1-201-63357-4 Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford. Practical UNIX Security. 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1996. ISBN 1-56592-148-8 Hardware reference

Anderson, Don and Tom Shanley. Pentium Processor System Architecture. 2nd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40992-5 Ferraro, Richard F. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-62490-7 Shanley, Tom. 80486 System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40994-1 Shanley, Tom. ISA System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40996-8 Shanley, Tom. PCI System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40993-3 Van Gilluwe, Frank. The Undocumented PC. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1994. ISBN 0-201-62277-7 UNIX history

Saulus, 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 Don Libes, Sandy Ressler Life with UNIX - special edition. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. ISBN 0-13-536657-7 Magazines and journals

The C/C++ Users Journal. R&D Publications Inc. ISSN 1075-2838 Sys Admin - The Journal for UNIX System Administrators Miller Freeman, Inc., ISSN 1061-2688