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BSDA Courseware DVD

BSDA Courseware graphic design by Paul Bloch at openartist.net

Essential tools for your BSD Associate certification

Here is the complete collection of all four of the BSD operating systems, their applications, and guides in a single handy reference. Simply select which BSD to install from the boot menu on the DVD and you have all the essential tools to prepare for the BSDA certification.

This version of the DVD introduces the QEMU and AQEMU virtual environments, allowing one to install and network all of the four BSDs as guest operating systems on one FreeBSD host. Details for installing and using this virtual environment are available at the BSDA Wiki.

The flexibility of the BSD family of operating systems lends itself to being molded and optimized for a variety of uses. For your BSDA, you will become proficient in the leading BSD distributions and how to use them. This DVD includes the following operating systems:

FreeBSD is a free, reliable, secure, operating system boasting excellent performance on commodity hardware. FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features and provides robust network services under the heaviest loads. The FreeBSD Ports Collection makes software installation a breeze and provides a searchable collection of over 19,000 third-party applications. For more information visit FreeBSD.org.

NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research environments, and it is user-supported with complete source. Many applications are easily available through pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection. For more information visit NetBSD.org.

OpenBSD is a free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system which emphasizes portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD believes in strong security and to ensure that novice users of OpenBSD do not need to become security experts overnight, the operating system ships in a Secure by Default mode. For more information visit OpenBSD.org.

DragonFly BSD is designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x OS series for the i386 processor family. It uses the NetBSD Packages Collection pkgsrc which provides over 7,300 third-party software packages. For more information visit DragonflyBSD.org.

Note: This edition of the DVD is for the i386 (32-bit) architecture.

DVD Contents

  • FreeBSD 8.2, including ports collection
  • NetBSD 5.1, including pkgsrc
  • OpenBSD 5.0, including packages
  • DragonFly BSD 2.10.1, including pkgsrc
  • BSDA Exam Objectives (pdf)
  • BSDA Command Reference (pdf)
  • Psychometrics Explained (pdf)
  • BSDA Task Analysis Survey Report (pdf)
  • BSD Usage Survey Report (pdf)
  • BSDA Test Delivery Survey Report (pdf)
  • FreeBSD Handbook (pdf)
  • FreeBSD FAQs (pdf)
  • The Complete FreeBSD (pdf)
  • NetBSD Guide (pdf)
  • DragonFly BSD Guide (pdf)
  • pkgsrc Guide (pdf)
  • OpenBSD FAQ (pdf)
  • Wiki version of the BSDA Study Guide (pdf)













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