Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:29:59 +0100 From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> To: Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> Cc: "doc@FreeBSD.org" <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: patch to remove FreeBSD < 7 from the Handbook Message-ID: <BA334CF6-F5CF-4884-AB9A-DB8AEDD464FE@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org> References: <4CE6A8F3.5010807@freebsd.org>
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On 19 Nov 2010, at 17:42, Rene Ladan wrote: > Because FreeBSD 6.X will be officially unsupported after this month, I > made a patch [1] to streamline the Handbook so that it only supports > FreeBSD 7.X and up (assuming I did not miss anything). >=20 > Some more notes: > - - old versions in historical context are left in tact. > - - the section about KerberosIV has been removed, since it is = applicable > to FreeBSD < 6 only > - - the instructions to install SAP R/3 have been commented out for = now, > since they were last tested on FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.5. Maybe these and = the > other instructions about installing Linux applications should be > converted to articles? > - - XFree86 has been removed from the text (except when in historical > context), only X.Org is supported these days. > - - Some port paths have been updated (e.g. mail/pine -> mail/alpine) > - - definitions for ctm-src-[5-8] have been added to mailing-lists.ent = to > fully support updating FreeBSD version numbers in examples. Hey, I haven't looked at the patch (sorry, too many other tasks) but all of = the above points sounds good. I recently did stumble on the Kerberos IV section and thought it should = be removed. --=20 Simon L. B. Nielsen
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