Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:01:17 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@FreeBSD.org>, Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org>, Daichi GOTO <daichi@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>, Rene Ladan <rene@FreeBSD.org>, Manolis Kiagias <manolis@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a VirtualBox section to Handbook's 'Virtualization' chapter Message-ID: <4A61733D.9010702@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090717215636.GA1141@arthur.nitro.dk> References: <4A5C5F13.7030607@FreeBSD.org> <4A5D5ED7.5000101@freebsd.org> <20090717215636.GA1141@arthur.nitro.dk>
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Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2009.07.15 13:45:11 +0900, Daichi GOTO wrote: > > [replying to random post in the thread] > > >> For a number of years, FreeBSD was not officially supported as.... >> > > Is this statement really correct? qemu has been running fine on > FreeBSD for quite a while... > > Personally I think the entire first parapgrah could just be cut... I > don't think the history part matters for readers of the handbook. > But isn't qemu distinctly different in the way it works from a virtualization program like VMWare or VirtualBox? I think the first paragraph serves well as a gentle introduction to the topic. > One nit is that the text contains 'UNIX®-type' - that's not allowed > for the UNIX trademark (and in general probably not for most > trademarks). Something like 'UNIX® like' should be fine. > Yes, I think you are right here. > On a simlar note "Sun(tm)'s" should just be "Sun's" as it's refering > to Sun, the company, and not Sun as used as part of a trademark. For > added fun VirtualBox is actually a Sun trademark [1] and should be > handled as such. I'm suddenly reminded that I know way more about > trademarks than I want to :-). > > Heh, definitely. So I'll add a trademark for VirtualBox. > Oh, and s/wiki.freebsd.org/wiki.FreeBSD.org/ > > Right here too. I'll commit these changes later today.
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