尽管手册页能够提供对于 FreeBSD 操作系统最为权威的参考资料，它们有时却不能告诉我们如何让整个系统很好地运转起来。 因此，一本关于 &unix; 系统管理的好书，以及一份好的用户手册是不可或缺的。 非英文的书籍和杂志： FreeBSD 入门与应用 (繁体中文)。 FreeBSD 技术内幕(中译本)， 机械工业出版社。ISBN 7-111-10201-0。 FreeBSD 使用大全 第一版， 机械工业出版社。ISBN 7-111-07482-3。 FreeBSD 使用大全 第二版， 机械工业出版社。ISBN 7-111-10286-X。 FreeBSD Handbook (第二版中译本)， 人民邮电出版社。ISBN 7-115-10541-3。 FreeBSD 3.x Internet 高级服务器的架设与管理 清华大学出版社。ISBN 7-900625-66-6。 FreeBSD & Windows 集成组网实务，中国铁道出版社。ISBN 7-113-03845-X。 FreeBSD 网站架设实务，中国铁道出版社。ISBN 7-113-03423-3。 FreeBSD for PC 98'ers (日文, 出版商：SHUWA System Co, LTD. ISBN 4-87966-468-5 C3055 P2900E。 FreeBSD (日文, 出版商：CUTT. ISBN 4-906391-22-2 C3055 P2400E. Complete Introduction to FreeBSD (日文, 出版商：Shoeisha Co., Ltd. ISBN 4-88135-473-6 P3600E. Personal UNIX Starter Kit FreeBSD (日文, 出版商：ASCII. ISBN 4-7561-1733-3 P3000E. FreeBSD Handbook (日文译本, 出版商：ASCII. ISBN 4-7561-1580-2 P3800E. FreeBSD mit Methode (德文, 出版商：Computer und Literatur Verlag/Vertrieb Hanser, 1998. ISBN 3-932311-31-0. FreeBSD 4 - Installieren, Konfigurieren, Administrieren (德文, 出版商：Computer und Literatur Verlag, 2001. ISBN 3-932311-88-4. FreeBSD 5 - Installieren, Konfigurieren, Administrieren (德文), 出版商： Computer und Literatur Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-936546-06-1. FreeBSD de Luxe (德文), 出版商： Verlag Modere Industrie, 2003. ISBN 3-8266-1343-0. FreeBSD Install and Utilization Manual (日文), 出版商： Mainichi Communications Inc.. Onno W Purbo, Dodi Maryanto, Syahrial Hubbany, Widjil Widodo Building Internet Server with FreeBSD (印尼文), 出版商： Elex Media Komputindo. 英文版的书籍和杂志： Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD, 出版商： No Starch Press, 2002. ISBN: 1886411743 The Complete FreeBSD, 出版商： O'Reilly, 2003. ISBN: 0596005164 The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide, 出版商： Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN: 0201704811 FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your Personal Computer, 出版商： The Bit Tree Press, 2001. ISBN: 0971204500 Teach Yourself FreeBSD in 24 Hours, 出版商： Sams, 2002. ISBN: 0672324245 FreeBSD 6 Unleashed，出版商： Sams, 2006. ISBN: 0672328755 FreeBSD: The Complete Reference, 出版商： McGrawHill, 2003. ISBN: 0072224096 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD User's Reference Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-075-9 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD User's Supplementary Documents. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-076-7 UNIX in a Nutshell. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1990. ISBN 093717520X Mui, Linda. What You Need To Know When You Can't Find Your UNIX System Administrator. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-104-6 Ohio State University 编写了一份 UNIX 介绍性课程 ，并提供在线的 HTML 和 PostScript 版本。 这份文档的意大利文 翻译 是 FreeBSD Italian Documentation Project 的一部分。 Jpman Project, Japan FreeBSD Users Group. FreeBSD User's Reference Manual (日文译本). Mainichi Communications Inc., 1998. ISBN4-8399-0088-4 P3800E. Edinburgh University has written an Online Guide for newcomers to the UNIX environment. Albitz, Paul and Liu, Cricket. DNS and BIND, 4th Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2001. ISBN 1-59600-158-4 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD System Manager's Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-080-5 Costales, Brian, et al. Sendmail, 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-56592-222-0 Frisch, Æleen. Essential System Administration, 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-127-5 Hunt, Craig. TCP/IP Network Administration, 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997. ISBN 1-56592-322-7 Nemeth, Evi. UNIX System Administration Handbook. 3rd Ed. Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-13-020601-6 Stern, Hal Managing NFS and NIS O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991. ISBN 0-937175-75-7 Jpman Project, Japan FreeBSD Users Group. FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual (日文译本). Mainichi Communications Inc., 1998. ISBN4-8399-0109-0 P3300E. Dreyfus, Emmanuel. Cahiers de l'Admin: BSD 2nd Ed. (in French), Eyrolles, 2004. ISBN 2-212-11463-X Asente, Paul, Converse, Diana, and Swick, Ralph. X Window System Toolkit. Digital Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55558-178-1 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD Programmer's Reference Manual. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-078-3 Computer Systems Research Group, UC Berkeley. 4.4BSD Programmer's Supplementary Documents. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56592-079-1 Harbison, Samuel P. and Steele, Guy L. Jr. C: A Reference Manual. 4th ed. Prentice Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-326224-3 Kernighan, Brian and Dennis M. Ritchie. The C Programming Language. 2nd Ed. PTR Prentice Hall, 1988. ISBN 0-13-110362-8 Lehey, Greg. Porting UNIX Software. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-126-7 Plauger, P. J. The Standard C Library. Prentice Hall, 1992. ISBN 0-13-131509-9 Spinellis, Diomidis. Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective. Addison-Wesley, 2003. ISBN 0-201-79940-5 Spinellis, Diomidis. Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective. Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN 0-321-16607-8 Stevens, W. Richard and Stephen A. Rago. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment. 2nd Ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 2005. ISBN 0-201-43307-9 Stevens, W. Richard. UNIX Network Programming. 2nd Ed, PTR Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN 0-13-490012-X Wells, Bill. Writing Serial Drivers for UNIX. Dr. Dobb's Journal. 19(15), December 1994. pp68-71, 97-99. Andleigh, Prabhat K. UNIX System Architecture. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1990. ISBN 0-13-949843-5 Jolitz, William. Porting UNIX to the 386. Dr. Dobb's Journal. 1991年1月 - 1992年6月 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J Karels and John Quarterman The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0-201-06196-1 Leffler, Samuel J., Marshall Kirk McKusick, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System: Answer Book. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1991. ISBN 0-201-54629-9 McKusick, Marshall Kirk, Keith Bostic, Michael J Karels, and John Quarterman. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-54979-4 (这本书的第二章的 在线版本 是 FreeBSD Documentation Project 的一部分， 另外， 第九章可以在 这里 找到。) Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. Boston, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 2004. ISBN 0-201-70245-2 Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63346-9 Schimmel, Curt. Unix Systems for Modern Architectures. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1994. ISBN 0-201-63338-8 Stevens, W. Richard. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP and the UNIX Domain Protocols. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63495-3 Vahalia, Uresh. UNIX Internals -- The New Frontiers. Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN 0-13-101908-2 Wright, Gary R. and W. Richard Stevens. TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2: The Implementation. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-63354-X Cheswick, William R. and Steven M. Bellovin. Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-63357-4 Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford. Practical UNIX & Internet Security. 2nd Ed. O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1996. ISBN 1-56592-148-8 Garfinkel, Simson. PGP Pretty Good Privacy O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1995. ISBN 1-56592-098-8 Anderson, Don and Tom Shanley. Pentium Processor System Architecture. 2nd Ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40992-5 Ferraro, Richard F. Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA, and Super VGA Cards. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-62490-7 Intel 公司在他们的 开发人员网站上, 提供了关于他们的 CPU，芯片组，以及标准的文档。多数是PDF文件. Shanley, Tom. 80486 System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40994-1 Shanley, Tom. ISA System Architecture. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0-201-40996-8 Shanley, Tom. PCI System Architecture. 4th ed. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1999. ISBN 0-201-30974-2 Van Gilluwe, Frank. The Undocumented PC, 2nd Ed. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1996. ISBN 0-201-47950-8 Messmer, Hans-Peter. The Indispensable PC Hardware Book, 4th Ed. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 2002. ISBN 0-201-59616-4 Lion, John Lion's Commentary on UNIX, 6th Ed. With Source Code. ITP Media Group, 1996. ISBN 1573980137 Raymond, Eric S. The New Hacker's Dictionary, 3rd edition. MIT Press, 1996. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. 它也被称作 Jargon File Salus, Peter H. A quarter century of UNIX. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. ISBN 0-201-54777-5 Simon Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann. The UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., 1994. ISBN 1-56884-203-1. Out of print, but available online. Don Libes, Sandy Ressler Life with UNIX — special edition. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1989. ISBN 0-13-536657-7 BSD 族谱. 或在 FreeBSD 机器上的 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree 。 The BSD Release Announcements collection. 1997. Networked Computer Science Technical Reports Library. Old BSD releases from the Computer Systems Research group (CSRG). : The 4CD set covers all BSD versions from 1BSD to 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD-Lite2 (but not 2.11BSD, unfortunately). The last disk also holds the final sources plus the SCCS files. The C/C++ Users Journal. R&D Publications Inc. ISSN 1075-2838 Sys Admin — The Journal for UNIX System Administrators Miller Freeman, Inc., ISSN 1061-2688 freeX — Das Magazin für Linux - BSD - UNIX (德文) Computer- und Literaturverlag GmbH, ISSN 1436-7033