Welcome to Absolute FreeBSD! This book is a one-stop for system administrators who want to build, configure, and manage FreeBSD servers. It will also be useful for those folks who want to run FreeBSD on their desktops, servers, diskless system farms, and so on.
By server I mean a computer, running an operating system, whose main task is providing services to other servers or users, rather than supporting the network. A sysadmin is someone responsible for managing such devices. Some network administrators build routers, firewalls, proxy servers, intrusion detection devices, and more out of carefully selected server hardware. When this book says server…