From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 17 16:30: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422FC37BB35 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id QAA12779; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from dannyboy.eyep.net (adsl-207-68-89-183.ba-dsg.net [207.68.89.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA45537BBB6 for ; Wed, 17 May 2000 16:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyboy@dannyboy.eyep.net) Received: (from dannyboy@localhost) by dannyboy.eyep.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA02625; Wed, 17 May 2000 19:21:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dannyboy) Message-Id: <200005172321.TAA02625@dannyboy.eyep.net> Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 19:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Harris Reply-To: dannyboy@subdimension.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: docs/18630: minor applications.html fixes Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 18630 >Category: docs >Synopsis: minor applications.html fixes >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 17 16:30:00 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Daniel Harris >Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386 >Organization: Pedants-R-US >Environment: >Description: A few errors here: Changed "the kernel plus source code..." to "the kernel and..." Made the three red sections parallel (sort of). Zapped a superfluous "to". Finally, fixed an effect/affect goof -- you'll find that the previous verbiage mistakenly refers to Microsoft's marketing strategy and not to FreeBSD's developers. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: --- applications.sgml.orig Wed May 17 18:54:57 2000 +++ applications.sgml Wed May 17 18:58:44 2000 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@

There is no doubt that so-called open systems are the requirement for today's computing applications. But no commercial vendor-supplied solution is more open than one which includes full - source code to the entire operating system, including the kernel plus + source code to the entire operating system, including the kernel and all of the system daemons, programs, and utilities. You can modify any part of FreeBSD to suit your personal, organizational, or corporate needs.

@@ -106,20 +106,20 @@
An operating system that will grow with + color="#FF0000">FreeBSD is an operating system that will grow with your needs.

Though FreeBSD is free software, it is also user supported software. Any questions you have can be posted to hundreds of - FreeBSD developers and users simply by e-mailing to the freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG mailing list.

FreeBSD also has a worldwide group of programmers and writers who fix bugs, add new features and document the system. Support for new devices or special features is an almost constant development process, - and the team keeps a special eye out for problems which effect system + and the team keeps a special eye out for problems which affect system stability. FreeBSD users are quite proud of not only how fast but how reliable their systems are.

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