Documentation

Contents

• OpenBSD FAQ
• OpenBSD Man Pages

• From the BSD Sources
  • 4.3BSD-Net2 (Virtual Vax Version)
  • 4.4BSD-Lite2
• General Unix information
• GNU Info Tree
• Other Unix-like operating systems

From the BSD sources

4.3BSD-Net2 (Virtual Vax Version)

• UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 1 (PS1)
• UNIX Programmer's Supplementary Documents, Volume 2 (PS2)
• UNIX System Manager's Manual (SMM)
• UNIX User's Supplementary Documents (USD)

4.4BSD-Lite2

• 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents (PSD)
• 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual (SMM)
• 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents (USD)

General Unix information

• Unix Guru Universe
• UNIXhelp
• Books about *BSD versions of UNIX
• O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. (books on Unix)
• O'Reilly Network (articles on *BSD)

GNU Info Tree

• Info - Documentation browsing system.
• Bison - Yet Another Compiler.
• CPP - The GNU C preprocessor.
• Emacs - The extensible self-documenting text editor.
• Forms mode - A form-based editing mode.
• G++ & GCC - The GNU C++ and C compilers.
• G77 - The GNU Fortran compiler.
• GDB - The source-level C debugger.
• Gawk - The GNU implementation of AWK.
• Gnus - The GNUS news reader/poster/mailer.
• Gprof - The GNU profiler.
• libstdc++ - The GNU standard C++ library.
• Make - The GNU implementation of Make.
• rx & regex - The regular expression libraries.
• Tar - GNU Tar.
• Termcap - The termcap library, which enables application programs to handle all types of character-display terminals.
• Texinfo - With one source file, make either a printed manual (through TeX) or an Info file (through texinfo).
• VIP - A Vi emulation mode for Emacs.
• Viper - A newer Vi emulator for Emacs.
• VM - A new mail interface (Elm and mailx-compatible folders).
• Calc - The GNU Emacs Calc -- an RPN-based numeric and symbolic calculator.
• Elisp - How to extend Emacs.
• Babyl - The format (BABYL) of ~/RMAIL, used by emacs' rmail.
• Perl - Perl Documentation.
• GNATS - The GNU problem report management system.
• groff - The GNU implementation of troff.
• screen - Virtual terminal manager.

Other Unix-like operating systems

• NetBSD - Multiplatform 4.4BSD OS
• FreeBSD - Enhanced 4.4BSD OS for i386 and up
• MIT Exokernel Operating System - Uses OpenBSD standard utilities and libraries, as well as implementing an interface to the OpenBSD system calls.
• Flux - new Mach project at Utah
• Linux - Linus Torvalds' Unix-like OS for i386 and up
• GNU - Free Software Foundation's OS based on Mach/Hurd kernel
• Minix - Andy Tanenbaum's Unix V7 clone
• Amoeba - Andy Tanenbaum's distributed OS
• Sprite - The Sprite Operating System

Contributed by Sandro Sigala <ssigala@globalnet.it>