Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:44:58 +0200 From: Matteo Riondato <matteo@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Patch for Introduction chapter of the handbook Message-ID: <20060407104458.GE81212@kaiser.sig11.org>
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Hi folks, Attached you can find a relative small patch that corrects some mistakes in the introduction chapter of the handbook: a) we no longer have a Perl distribution in the base system b) We now have a RELENG_6 branch so update FreeBSD History as needed. Patch follows and can be find at http://people.freebsd.org/~matteo/diff/introduction.diff --- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml Thu Feb 16 23:32:56 2006 +++ chapter.sgml Fri Apr 7 12:38:12 2006 @@ -196,8 +196,8 @@ </indexterm> <listitem> <para>A full complement of <emphasis>C</emphasis>, - <emphasis>C++</emphasis>, <emphasis>Fortran</emphasis>, and - <emphasis>Perl</emphasis> development tools. + <emphasis>C++</emphasis>, <emphasis>Fortran</emphasis> + development tools. Many additional languages for advanced research and development are also available in the ports and packages collection.</para> @@ -602,8 +602,7 @@ <para>There was another branch on March 13, 2000, which saw the emergence of the 4.X-STABLE branch. There have been several releases from it so far: 4.0-RELEASE was introduced in March 2000, and - the last &rel2.current;-RELEASE came out in - &rel2.current.date;.</para> + the last 4.11-RELEASE came out in January 2005.</para> <para>The long-awaited 5.0-RELEASE was announced on January 19, 2003. The culmination of nearly three years of work, this @@ -615,11 +614,16 @@ <para>RELENG_5 branch created in August 2004, followed by 5.3-RELEASE, that marks beginning of the 5-STABLE branch releases. The most - recent &rel.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel.current.date;. + recent &rel2.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel2.current.date;. There will be additional releases from the RELENG_5 branch.</para> + <para>Tree was branched in July 2006, for RELENG_6. 6.0-RELEASE, the + first release of the 6.x branch was released in November 2006. The + most recent &rel.current;-RELEASE came out in &rel.current.date;. + There will be additional releases from the RELENG_6 branch.</para> + <para>For now, long-term development projects continue to take place in the - 6.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and SNAPshot releases of 6.X on + 7.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and SNAPshot releases of 7.X on CDROM (and, of course, on the net) are continually made available from <ulink url="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/">; the snapshot server</ulink> as work progresses.</para> Best regards -- Matteo Riondato FreeBSD Committer (http://www.freebsd.org) G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org) FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)help
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