From owner-svn-doc-head@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 22:27:42 2014
Return-Path: This is a draft of the July-September 2014 status
- report. Please check back after it is finalized, and an
+ report. Please check back after it is finalized, and an
announcement email is sent to the &os;-Announce mailing
list. Lucas is working on a series of small FreeBSD books. The
first one, FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, is underway,
and covers GEOM, gpart, MBR, UFS, GELI, GBDE, disk sector
- alignment, and more. You can pre-order the book at a discount
+ alignment, and more. You can pre-order the book at a discount
from his web site, or wait for it to hit print and all major
ebook retailers.
Still, the Xfce team continues to keep each piece of the Xfce - Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next + Desktop up to date. That is why we are working on the next stable release (no date scheduled).
Major changes will be:
@@ -597,16 +597,16 @@This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide a noninteractive FreeBSD installation from the network. In the first part, an implementation was added for scripted - bsdinstall(8). It supports variables like: KEYMAP, + bsdinstall(8). It supports variables like: KEYMAP, HOSTNAME, MIRROR, RELEASE, TIMEZONE, DAEMONS, ROOTPWHASH, and USERS. Network configuration, ZFS options, and others are also included.
Second part of project is about booting the fai (Fully Automatic Installer) from network by PXE. Made installer - distro based on mfsbsd. After boot fai looks for + distro based on mfsbsd. After boot fai looks for "bootfile-name" parameter from DHCP server which tell fai - where bsdinstall script located is. Fai supports mac-based + where bsdinstall script located is. Fai supports mac-based config or default, if mac-based file does not exist.
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface - that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is part - of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like + that runs on top of a computer operating system. GNOME is + part of the GNU Project and can be used with various Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD.
The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@Hardware context support was added to the i915 driver in both HEAD and 10.1-RELEASE. This will allow us to update libglapi, libGL, dri, libEGL and libglesv2 ports to a newer version of - Mesa. The latest version is already available from our + Mesa. The latest version is already available from our development ports tree (see the links section).
Cairo was updated to 1.12. This will allow the FreeBSD GNOME @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@
Furthermore, a new website and forum is being worked at, replacing the old-fashioned website that offers only limited - functionality. The new website will be linked to the server + functionality. The new website will be linked to the server database, providing real-time updates about the project.
In addition, a new platform for collaborated development is @@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ awry.
A longer version of the 2014 development progress of the - ZFSguru project and information specific to the newly-released + ZFSguru project and information specific to the newly-released 10.1-002 system image can be found in the Links section.