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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