II. Common Tasks

Now that the basics have been covered, this part of the FreeBSD Handbook will discuss some frequently used features of FreeBSD. These chapters:

• Introduce you to popular and useful desktop applications: browsers, productivity tools, document viewers, etc.

• Introduce you to a number of multimedia tools available for FreeBSD.

• Explain the process of building a customized FreeBSD kernel, to enable extra functionality on your system.

• Describe the print system in detail, both for desktop and network-connected printer setups.

• Show you how to run Linux applications on your FreeBSD system.

Some of these chapters recommend that you do some prior reading, and this is noted in the synopsis at the beginning of each chapter.