From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 29 05:09:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED0916A400 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:09:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray.stokely@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A454E13C487 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:09:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray.stokely@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so841498mue for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:09:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c1P+74chgn3eZVUvDlQ6xkO5MB+5KLK05X71mkeQnBWGrGey7tdh5aGvekelK/QrN+esQZ3tM+5pH3Kvad4bvRvwZc54njyEBCluVSj1jPm9ivwpxsAWgY+r9vF6Cf90+apZ34IsrvxcKxeHYSi1PQ5JmvktRFlTihNevpUsblY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=A7e3c9EsE1bIu0Bvm3JaxSYAhEBBP5pn12J3qjhJQFyfOaP/MG3i5H0khtQsx7cUqjz8QmZypIok2Y/ndwVLEr0Xb8sMfsIZ/TnlShXTvyrwcv122x8jjWMGoT9pGXbjNuLdAD5sEegDLcXGmGL2sQYXhtW9f8qOn70SMzYEtec= Received: by 10.82.127.14 with SMTP id z14mr5352985buc.1183092136326; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.114.14 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <474078f80706282142h316600aar17a02e807cfb6052@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:16 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" To: "Ben Kaduk" In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0706282101k26619aa4r1f36d5e9da72e07c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47d0403c0706282101k26619aa4r1f36d5e9da72e07c@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minor update to handbook introduction chapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 05:09:09 -0000 Thanks Ben, I've made these changes (and also added SCTP to list of networking technologies supported). Your second correction points out how old and crufty that section is. I will ping a few people about adding a paragraph about FreeBSD 7.0 features, SMP, multithreading, etc.. - Murray On 6/28/07, Ben Kaduk wrote: > Is this worth send-pr-ing? > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml > > --- chapter.sgml.orig 2007-06-28 22:50:50.000000000 -0500 > +++ chapter.sgml 2007-06-28 22:57:53.000000000 -0500 > @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ > TCP/IP networking > > Strong TCP/IP networking with > - support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP, > - and NIS. This means that your FreeBSD machine can > + support for industry standards such as DHCP, NFS, NIS, PPP, > + and SLIP. This means that your FreeBSD machine can > interoperate easily with other systems as well as act as an > enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS > (remote file access) and email services or putting your > @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ > CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and > the Free Software Foundation. > > - Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 94, the performance, > + Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 1994, the > performance, > feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. > > The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a merged > > SLIP was modern in 4.3 BSD -- perhaps we no longer need to have it > heading the list of industry standards we support? > > ``late 94'' is just bad grammar -- either use the full form 1994 (as > above), or add an apostrophe. > > -Ben Kaduk > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >