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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:33:45 +0100
From:      Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Minor update to applications.sgml
Message-ID:  <420DF7A9.5070103@elvandar.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050212122906.GF51102@submonkey.net>
References:  <20050212122906.GF51102@submonkey.net>

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Ceri Davies wrote:
> During the logo flamefest, I saw someone mention that applications.sgml
> was very out of date; the attached patch tries to fix the worst of that.
> It's probably not enough though.  Please review.
> 
> Ceri
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Index: applications.sgml
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/www/en/applications.sgml,v
> retrieving revision 1.26
> diff -u -r1.26 applications.sgml
> --- applications.sgml	26 Apr 2004 18:35:55 -0000	1.26
> +++ applications.sgml	12 Feb 2005 12:23:47 -0000
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
>  	<li><b>Internet services. </b>Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
>  	  find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other
>  	  services.  Ready-to-run software like the <a
> -	    href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a>; web server or the Wu-ftpd
> +	    href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a>; web server or the ProFTPD
>  	  FTP&nbsp;server make it easy to set up a business or
>  	  community-centered ISP.  Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable <a
>  	    href="&base;/internet.html">networking</a>, your users will enjoy
> @@ -63,11 +63,18 @@
>  
>  	<li><b>X Window workstation. </b>From an inexpensive X terminal to an
>  	  advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well.  Free X software (<a
> -	    href="http://www.xfree86.org/">XFree86</a>&trade;) comes with the
> -	  system. <a href="http://www.xig.com/">Xi Graphics</a> offers
> -	  accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such
> -	  as Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif&reg; and OpenGL&reg;
> -	  libraries.</li>
> +	    href="http://x.org/">X.Org</a>&trade;) comes with the
> +	  system. <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/">nVidia</a>; offers native
> +	  drivers for their high-performance graphics hardware,
> +	  and the industry standard Motif&reg; and OpenGL&reg;
> +	  libraries are supported.  Both the <a
> +	    href="http://www.kde.org">KDE</a>; and <a
> +	    href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME</a>; desktop environments
> +	  enjoy full support and provide office suite functionality, with
> +	  further good functionality available in the <a
> +	    href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.Org</a>; and
> +	  <a href="http://www.softmaker.de/tml_en.htm">TextMaker</a>;
> +	  products.</li>
>  	
>  	<li><b>Networking. </b>From packet filtering to routing to name
>  	  service, FreeBSD can turn any PC into a Internet firewall, email
> @@ -81,9 +88,10 @@
>  	  libraries have always been easy to make and use.</li>
>  
>  	<li><b>Net surfing.</b> A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet 
> -	  surfboard, and the BSD version of <a
> -	    href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/index.html">Netscape
> -	    Navigator</a> with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web,
> +	  surfboard. FreeBSD versions of <a
> +	    href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox</a>;
> +	  and <a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera</a>; are available
> +	  for serious web users.  Surf the web,
>  	  publish your own web pages, read Usenet news, and send and receive
>  	  email with a FreeBSD system on your desktop.</li>
>  

It seems ok as far as i can see :-)

-- 
Kind regards,

      Remko Lodder  ** remko@elvandar.org
      Reporter DSINET  **  remko@DSINet.org
      Founder Tienervaders  ** remko@tienervaders.org
      FreeBSD Documentation Project  ** remko@FreeBSD.org



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