Absolute FreeBSD The Complete Guide to FreeBSD 2nd Edition Michael W. Lucas Welcome to Absolute FreeBSD! This book is a one-stop shop for system administrators who want to build, configure, and manage FreeBSD servers. It will also be useful for those folks who want to run FreeBSD on their desktops, servers, diskless system farms, and so on. By the time you finish
this book, you should be able to use FreeBSD to provide network services.
You should also understand how to manage, patch, and maintain your FreeBSD systems and have a basic understanding of networking, system security, and software management. We’ll discuss FreeBSD version 7, which is the version recommended for production use at the time this book is being released; however, most of this book applies to earlier and later versions as well.