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This site provides links to the official NetBSD documentation and also
links to various external documents. It's impossible to list every
single article or tutorial about NetBSD, but please
contact us if you think that a resource should be added.
Guides
The NetBSD Guide -
all information about the installation and administration of
the NetBSD operating system
(single HTML document).
Available formats for download:
PDF,
PostScript and
TXT.
NetBSD Internals
- aimed at contributors who wish to develop extensions or want
to improve NetBSD's existing code
(single HTML
document).
Available formats for download:
PDF,
PostScript
and
TXT.
The pkgsrc guide - for users
and developers of pkgsrc, the centralized package build and management
system
(single HTML document).
Available formats for download:
PDF,
PostScript and
TXT.
Manual Pages
The manual pages describe the system commands, functions and drivers -
the most important documentation for users.
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NetBSD-current
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NetBSD 10.1
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NetBSD 9.4
Port specific FAQs
These FAQs help with various hardware platform specific
issues.
FAQs and HOWTOs
Basic NetBSD questions
There is a document containing some
basic HOWTOs for NetBSD.
Further tutorials and other information can be found on the
NetBSD wiki.
Building, Installing and Updating
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Tracking NetBSD-current
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Updating a stable NetBSD
release
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Cross-building Explained: Cross compilation on NetBSD
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External documents:
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Building tiny systems with embedded NetBSD
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Cross-Development with NetBSD
Emulation and Virtualization
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NetBSD/xen Howto -
NetBSD as domain0 and domainU with Xen2 and Xen3. Including how to
install Linux as domainU.
Hardware
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Hardware Documentation
Library
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Power Management for
Laptops
Infrastructure
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NetBSD Mirror FAQ
Kernel
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Kernel FAQ
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Kernel Programming FAQ
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Kernel Profiling HOWTO
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NetBSD UVM FAQ
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Debugging the NetBSD kernel
with GDB HOWTO
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Vendor-specific ELF Note Elements
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Why implement traditional vfork()
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NetBSD Device Driver Writing Guide
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Kernel example dynamic modules
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Writing a pseudo device
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Design Overview of the 4.4BSD kernel
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Information about non-executable
mappings
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Porting NetBSD
to a new ARM SoC
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Kernel Code as a Userspace Library:
rump
Networking
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Basic NetBSD Networking
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The Internet Super Server
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DNS and
BIND on NetBSD
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NetBSD Security Processes and
Services
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Networking using IEEE 802.11 (WiFi)
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Wireless networking with WPA encryption
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HOWTO Netboot a diskless
machine
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HOWTO setup DHCP clients
and servers
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Steps to connect via GPRS / CDPD
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NetBSD/amiga Guide to Networking FAQ
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IPv6 Networking FAQ
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IPsec FAQ
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RASVPN HowTo -
building a user remote access VPN gateway using IPsec
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NetBSD Packet Filter (NPF) documentation
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Deprecated: IPFilter (IPF) resources
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Deprecated: Packet Filter (PF) FAQ
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ALTQ Tips
Security
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See the security page.
Software and pkgsrc
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The pkgsrc guide
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Adding/compiling software on
NetBSD (including packages & pkgsrc)
System and Userland
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Binary emulation in NetBSD
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ELF and NetBSD
X Window System
X11 is the graphical display system used
on NetBSD.
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X11 in the NetBSD Guide
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Various configuration issues
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How to use the standard unaccelerated framebuffer on x86 machines
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How to disable bitmap (non-scalable) fonts
External Resources
Tutorials, articles and books
A collection of published technical and non-technical articles can be
found here.
Presentations about NetBSD are listed
on this page.
Research carried out using NetBSD and
Research of interest to NetBSD
Recommended reading - informative and
useful books
Documentation for BSD and other Unix Systems
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Single UNIX Specification
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Historic BSD Information
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Solaris 11
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FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD
Source Trees (cross-referenced)
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GNU