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 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. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1991. ISBN 0-13-110933-2 Jolitz, William. "Porting UNIX to the 386". Dr. Dobb's Journal. January 1991-July 1992. Leffler, Samuel J. The Design and implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX operating system. Addison-Wesley, 1989. Plauger, P. J. The Standard C Library. Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-131509-9 Wells, Bill. "Writing Serial Drivers for UNIX". Dr. Dobb's Journal. 19(15), December 1994. pp68-71, 97-99. Hardware reference

Stanley, Tom. ISA System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0201409968 Stanley, Tom. PCI System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0201409933 Van Gilluwe, Frank. The Undocumented PC. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1994. ISBN 0-201-62277-7 Magazines and journals

The C/C++ Users Journal. R&D Publications Inc. ISSN 1075-2838