While the manual pages provide the definative 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
Gilley, Daniel. Unix in a Nutshell.
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 1990Administrators' guides
Albitz, Paul; Liu, Cricket. DNS and
BIND. O'Reilley & Associates. 1993. ISBN
1-56592-010-4 Costales, Brian; Allman, Eric; Rickert,
Neil. sendmail O'Reilley &
Associates. 1993. ISBN 1-56592-056-2 Frisch, Æleen. Essential System
Administration. O'Reilley &
Associates. 1993. ISBN 0-937175-80-3 Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration
O'Reilley & Associates. 1992. ISBN 0-937175-82-XNemeth, Evi. Unix System Administration
Handbook. Prentice Hall. 1989. ISBN
0-13-933441-6Programmers' guides
Asente, Paul. X Window System
Toolkit. Digital Press. ISBN
1-55558-051-3Ellis, Margaret A. and Stroustrup,
Bjarne. The Annotated C++ Reference
Manual. Addison-Wesley. 1990. ISBN
0-201-51459-1Harbison, Samuel P. and Steele, Guy
L. Jr. C: A Reference Manual. Prentice
Hall. 3rd Edition, 1991. ISBN
0-13-110933-2Jolitz, 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
0-13-131509-9Wells, Bill. "Writing Serial Drivers for UNIX".
Dr. Dobb's Journal. 19(15), December
1994. pp68-71, 97-99.Hardware reference
Stanley, Tom; Anderson, Don. PCI System
Architechure. Mindshare, Inc. ISBN
1-881609-08-1Magazines and journals
The C/C++ Users Journal. R&D Publications
Inc. ISSN 1075-2838