Other Internet Resources
| This section covers other resources on the Internet that are somehow related to FreeBSD in a general sense. Included in this section are the home pages for some of the software used and described in this book. Websiteswww.x.orgThis is the home page for the X.org Foundation and the Xorg project, which is the free implementation of the X Window System (X11) included with FreeBSD. This is where you will find documentation and such related to the X11 system. www.gnu.orgThe home page for the GNU (a recursive acronym that stands for GNU's Not UNIX) project. Many of the utilities included with FreeBSDsuch as the GCC compiler, the GAWK pattern-matching language, the Emacs editor, and the f77 FORTRAN compilerare from the GNU project. This site contains information on almost all the GNU project's software. www.gnome.org The home page for the GNOME Desktop Environment project. GNOME news, tutorials, and so on can be found here. www.kde.orgThe home page for the K Desktop Environment project. KDE news and tutorials are available here, as well as documentation on the many applications built for KDE. www.apache.orgThis is the home page for the Apache web server projectthe most popular web server in the world. It is free and is the web server of choice for FreeBSD. This site also contains information about projects that can be used to extend Apache's functionality, such as PHP, Perl, TCL, and more. www.mysql.comMySQL is the open-source SQL database most commonly used with FreeBSD. This site contains documentation, tutorials, and many other resources for the MySQL database software. www.postgresql.orgThe site for PostgreSQL, another open-source SQL database available for FreeBSD. PostgreSQL has more features than MySQL but tends to be somewhat slower. www.php.netThe home page of the embedded scripting language of choice for building web-based applications. PHP is an open-source competitor to Active Server Pages (ASP), and is most commonly used for linking websites to databases. It integrates well with MySQL and PostgreSQL. www.perl.comThis site includes information and tutorials on the Perl programming language, which is not a part of FreeBSD but underlies a lot of commonly used utilities such as the Majordomo mailing list manager and the vast majority of CGI programs written for dynamic websites. www.python.orgThe home page for the Python programming language, which is a popular alternative to Perl. www.sendmail.orgThe home page of the ubiquitous Sendmail mail transfer agent, which is the default MTA included with FreeBSD. www.postfix.org The home page for a popular alternative mail transfer agent for Sendmail. Postfix is a drop-in replacement for Sendmail. New users will find it much easier to configure than Sendmail. www.osnews.comAlthough it is not FreeBSD-specific, this news site often contains articles of general interest to FreeBSD users and sometimes runs FreeBSD-specific articles. Usenet NewsgroupsThe following nonFreeBSD-specific newsgroups are available on Usenet (contact your ISP to find out what news server you should be using to access Usenet). General UNIX NewsgroupsThese newsgroups cover topics that are not specific to FreeBSD but are of interest to UNIX users in general. For example, they cover UNIX administration practices, general UNIX security issues, general UNIX shell use, and so on.
X11 Newsgroups
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