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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Port specific FAQs
These FAQs help with various hardware platform specific issues.
FAQs and HOWTOs
Building, Installing and Updating
- External documents:
Emulation and Virtualization
- NetBSD/xen Howto - NetBSD as domain0 and domainU with Xen2 and Xen3. Including how to install Linux as domainU.
Kernel
- Kernel FAQ
- Kernel Programming FAQ
- Kernel Profiling HOWTO
- NetBSD UVM FAQ
- Debugging the NetBSD kernel with GDB HOWTO
- Vendor-specific ELF Note Elements
- Why implement traditional vfork()
- NetBSD Device Driver Writing Guide
- Kernel example dynamic modules
- Writing a pseudo device
- Design Overview of the 4.4BSD kernel
- Information about non-executable mappings
- Porting NetBSD to a new ARM SoC
- Kernel Code as a Userspace Library: rump
Networking
- Basic NetBSD Networking
- The Internet Super Server
- DNS and BIND on NetBSD
- NetBSD Security Processes and Services
- Networking using IEEE 802.11 (WiFi)
- Wireless networking with WPA encryption
- HOWTO Netboot a diskless machine
- HOWTO setup DHCP clients and servers
- Steps to connect via GPRS / CDPD
- NetBSD/amiga Guide to Networking FAQ
- IPv6 Networking FAQ
- IPsec FAQ
- RASVPN HowTo - building a user remote access VPN gateway using IPsec
- NetBSD Packet Filter (NPF) documentation
- Deprecated: IPFilter (IPF) resources
- Deprecated: Packet Filter (PF) FAQ
- ALTQ Tips