FreeBSD Ask

🎉 Welcome to the world of BSD!

FreeBSD is a truly free (Liberty) operating system that, in this unpredictable world, still upholds the BSD UNIX philosophy — abiding by ancient principles, pursuing true freedom.

Summary

Note
The material before you corresponds to the third Chinese edition.

This book is an open-source research work about the FreeBSD operating system.

~~The FreeBSD project is about to be Archived~~ — to protect our beloved operating system... what we can do is, write a book! (Adapted from the iconic slogan in Love Live! School Idol Project[Z]. Japan: SUNRISE, 2013-01-06)

About the Authors

This book is co-authored by multiple members of the Chinese FreeBSD Community (CFC).

WeChat Official Account: bsdcn2018

The primary contact for the Chinese FreeBSD Community (CFC) is the QQ group: 787969044

WeChat group: Due to WeChat platform restrictions, you must first join the QQ group, then contact the group owner to obtain the latest group QR code.
Discord: https://discord.gg/j7VhWrhp3e (Requires a proxy; accessible via the web client)
Telegram: https://t.me/oh_my_BSD (Requires a proxy)

Electronic Documents

This book provides electronic documents in both PDF and EPUB formats:

PDF (suitable for printing and offline desktop reading) download link: https://docs.bsdcn.org/bsdbook.pdf
EPUB (suitable for offline mobile reading) download link: https://docs.bsdcn.org/bsdbook.epub

The electronic documents are synchronized in real time with the web version, updated with each Git commit, and filenames remain unchanged.

For mobile reading, we recommend using WeChat Reading for EPUB documents; for desktop reading, we recommend CAJViewer 9.

The e-books are powered by the GitBook PDF/EPUB Export Tool developed by safreya, which converts GitBook projects into PDF and EPUB format documents.

Deployment Addresses

The Chinese FreeBSD Community (CFC) does not deploy this book through any other domains. The sole official domain is bsdcn.org.

Feedback

Due to the limitations of the editors, errors and omissions are inevitable in this book.

If you encounter content issues or website technical issues, please email ykla yklaxds@gmail.com. For content issues, you can also submit a PR via GitHub — the entry point is located at the bottom right or bottom left of the current page on the desktop website.

For community-related issues, please join the QQ group and contact the group owner.

Please follow the Chinese FreeBSD Community (CFC) Code of Conduct (CoC).

The comment feature requires a GitHub account login. Comments will be published to the Discussions section of the GitHub repository Handbook-giscus-discussions, where you can manage your past comments.

Goals and Direction

See Contributing Guide and Open Tasks.

Donations

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Contributors

License and Legal Notice

Unless otherwise noted, the text, figures, and other content in this book are published under the CC BY 4.0 license.

All code examples in this book are released under the BSD 2-Clause License.

Third-party trademarks, service marks, trade dress, and copyrighted materials referenced in this work are the property of their respective rights holders. Such references are made for purposes of illustration, commentary, or education only.

If you believe this work infringes on your rights, please contact ykla via email at yklaxds@gmail.com.

Project History

"FreeBSD Ask" began on March 14, 2021. Its prototype can be traced back to the article "An Introduction to the Art, Science, and Philosophy of FreeBSD" published by ykla on December 31, 2020.

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