From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 26 00:10:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BCDBC5C8; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D48C14FF; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s0Q0Ak1T095968; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:10:46 GMT (envelope-from wblock@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id s0Q0Akfm095967; Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:10:46 GMT (envelope-from wblock@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201401260010.s0Q0Akfm095967@svn.freebsd.org> From: Warren Block Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:10:46 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r43644 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the doc tree for head List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:10:46 -0000 Author: wblock Date: Sun Jan 26 00:10:46 2014 New Revision: 43644 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43644 Log: Minor punctuation and spelling fixes, add ASCII cat pictures. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Sat Jan 25 20:00:48 2014 (r43643) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-10-2013-12.xml Sun Jan 26 00:10:46 2014 (r43644) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@

The last quarter of 2013 was very active for the &os; community, much like the preceding quarters. Many advances were made in getting &os; to run on ARM-based System-on-Chip boards - like Cubieboard, Rockchip, Snapdragon, S4, Freescale i.MX6 and + like Cubieboard, Rockchip, Snapdragon, S4, Freescale i.MX6, and Vybrid VF6xx. &os; is also becoming a better platform for Xen and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. There are plans for &os; to become a fully supported compute host for OpenStack. The I/O @@ -434,8 +434,8 @@

The i.MX range is a family of Freescale Semiconductor proprietary microprocessors for multimedia applications based on - the ARM architecture and focused on low-power consumption. The - i.MX6x series is based on the ARM Cortex A9 solo, dual or quad + the ARM architecture and focused on low power consumption. The + i.MX6x series is based on the ARM Cortex A9 solo, dual, or quad cores. Initial support for them has been committed to head, and merged to stable/10. All members of the i.MX6 family (Solo, Dual, and Quad core) are supported, but @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ of context switches.

Thanks to these cam(4) and geom(4) changes, - the peak I/O rate has doubled on comptemporary hardware, reaching + the peak I/O rate has doubled on contemporary hardware, reaching up to 1,000,000 IOPS!

@@ -710,9 +710,9 @@

The devel/py-distribute port has been replaced by the refreshed devel/py-setuptools port, which comes with a - lot of features that simplify the ways of installing Python + lot of features that simplify the methods of installing Python packages. The change also led us to install everything through - Setuptools now, which resembles a PyIP a bit and allows us to + Setuptools now, which resembles PyIP a bit and allows us to perform some major cleanup on the distutils installation behaviour.

@@ -975,8 +975,8 @@ Ports Collection, thanks to the efforts of Jeremy Messenger. MATE is a desktop environment forked from the now-unmaintained code base of GNOME 2, therefore it is basically a - replacement for GNOME 2. It recommended for users wanting - to keep GNOME 2 as their desktop to switch since + replacement for GNOME 2. Users wanting + to keep GNOME 2 as their desktop are advised to switch to MATE since GNOME 2 will be replaced by GNOME 3 in the near future. This switch will be announced in advance, so people will have time to move to MATE if they have not already. The @@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ GNOME 2 ports still need to be sorted out to evaluate which GNOME 2 components will be gone or be replaced with - their newer GNOME 3 versions. This task is current halted + their newer GNOME 3 versions. This task is currently halted until we can get the documentation into a shape good enough to gather the issues and document the migration, including how to avoid the migration if the upgrade is not preferred. (This @@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ from the Intel team, and introduce support for the newest hardware — in particular Haswell and ValleyView. The IvyBridge code will also be updated. The addition of several - features, which are required in order to update X.Org and Mesa, + features which are required to update X.Org and Mesa is also planned.

@@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@ -

At the November 2013 &os; Vendor Summit, some of the work was +

At the November 2013 &os; Vendor Summit, some work was presented that Craig Rodrigues has been doing with Continuous Integration and Testing at iXsystems. Craig's presentation described how iXsystems is using modern best practices for @@ -1244,14 +1244,14 @@ change noticed.

To better manage changes such as the WITH_NEW_XORG and - Cairo 1.12 changes mentioned above, we asked on the + the Cairo 1.12 changes mentioned above, we asked on the freebsd-x11 mailing-list if people are using &os; 8.x on their desktop computers and why they do not upgrade to &os; 9.x or 10.x. So far, we received very few answers to this.

The Radeon KMS driver in &os; 10.x is now considered - stable, especially that integrated GPUs are now properly + stable, especially now that integrated GPUs are properly initialized. One of the next steps will be to merge this to stable/9.

@@ -1342,11 +1342,11 @@ replacement for the existing, quite old, virtual terminal emulator called syscons(4). Initially motivated by the lack of Unicode support in syscons(4), the project was - later expanded to cover the new requirement to support Kernel + later expanded to cover the new requirement of supporting Kernel Mode Switching (KMS).

The project is now approaching completion and is ready for - wider testing as the related code was already merged to &os; + wider testing, as the related code was already merged to &os; head. Hence, vt(9) can be tested easily by replacing the following two lines in the kernel config file:

@@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ device vt_vga

i386 (VGA/i915kms/radeonkms) — works.

IA64 — untested.

MIPS — untested.

PPC and PPC64 — Works, but without X.Org yet.

PPC and PPC64 — works, but without X.Org yet.

SPARC — works on certain hardware (e.g., Ultra 5).

vesa(4) — in progress.

i386/amd64 nVidia driver — need testing.

@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ device vt_vga

The auditdistd(8) daemon is responsible for - distributing audit trail files over TCP/IP network securely and + distributing audit trail files over TCP/IP networks securely and reliably. Currently, the daemon uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) for communication, but only server-side certificates are verified, based on the certificate's fingerprint. The ongoing @@ -1518,13 +1518,13 @@ device vt_vga

The &os; Port Management Team ensures that the &os; ports developer community provides a Ports Collection that is - functional, stable, up-to-date and full-featured. Its secondary + functional, stable, up-to-date, and full-featured. Its secondary responsibility is to coordinate among the committers and - developers who work on it. As part of these efforts, we added 3 - new committers, took in 3 commit bits for safe keeping, and - reinstated 1 commit bit in the fourth quarter of 2013.

+ developers who work on it. As part of these efforts, we added three + new committers, took in three commit bits for safe keeping, and + reinstated one commit bit in the fourth quarter of 2013.

Ongoing effort went into testing larger changes, as many as 8 a +

Ongoing effort went into testing larger changes, as many as eight a week, including sweeping changes to the tree, moderization of the infrastructure, and basic quality assurance (QA) runs. Many iterations of tests against 10.0-RELEASE were run to @@ -1746,7 +1746,7 @@ device vt_vga

Support in improving the experience of Wine on &os; is needed. Key areas including fixing regressions, adding copy protection - scheme support and fixing regressions when using Wine under + scheme support, and fixing regressions when using Wine under &os;/amd64.

@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ device vt_vga KDE/&os; Team have continued to improve the experience of KDE software and Qt under &os;.

During last quarter, the team has kept most of the KDE and Qt +

During the last quarter, the team has kept most of the KDE and Qt ports up-to-date, working on the following releases:

As usual, the team is always looking for more testers and - porters so please contact us or visit our home page (see links). + porters, so please contact us or visit our home page (see links). It would be especially useful to have more helping hands on tasks such as getting rid of the dependency on the defunct HAL project and providing integration with KDE's Bluedevil Bluetooth @@ -1861,12 +1861,12 @@ device vt_vga &os; 10.x.

It was a busy quarter for the src repository as well. The Core - Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) back + Team was happy to welcome Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh) back, who has recently returned to the &os; business, and joined iXsystems as project manager and release engineer of FreeNAS. - In addition to this, there were 3 commit bits offered for new - developers, 2 committers were upgraded, 1 commit bit was taken - for safekeeping, and 1 src bit was reactivated.

The GCC compiler in the &os; base system is on its way to deprecation and is only used by some Tier-2 platforms at this time. While Clang is much better in many aspects, we still - cannot use in the base system all the new features that it - brings until we can drop GCC completely. As a stop-gap + cannot use all the new features that it + brings in the base system until we can drop GCC completely. As a stop-gap solution, several bug fixes and features from Apple GCC and other sources have been ported to our version of GCC 4.2.1 to make it more compatible with Clang. &os;'s GCC has added @@ -2090,9 +2090,9 @@ device vt_vga I/O. Otherwise it uses hardware virtualization extensions, without the need for emulation.

After merging the changes in order to improve Xen PVHVM +

After merging the changes to improve Xen PVHVM support, work has shifted on getting PVH DomU support on &os;. - Patches have been posted, and after a couple of rounds of review + Patches have been posted, and after a couple of rounds of review, the series looks almost ready for merging into head. Also, very initial patches for &os; PVH Dom0 support has been posted. So far the posted series only focuses on getting &os;