From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 12:33:41 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B9416A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:33:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from redqueen.evilcoder-services.org (redqueen.evilcoder-services.org [217.148.169.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD8D43D54 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:33:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])A9619295494; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:33:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from redqueen.evilcoder-services.org ([127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 71430-04; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:33:39 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <420DF7A9.5070103@elvandar.org> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:33:45 +0100 From: Remko Lodder User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ceri Davies References: <20050212122906.GF51102@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20050212122906.GF51102@submonkey.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by the evilcoder-services.org maildomain cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Minor update to applications.sgml X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:33:41 -0000 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 was very out of date; the attached patch tries to fix the worst of that.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 @@ >
  • Internet services. Many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) > find FreeBSD ideal, running WWW, Usenet news, FTP, Email, and other > services. Ready-to-run software like the - href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache web server or the Wu-ftpd > + href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache web server or the ProFTPD > FTP server make it easy to set up a business or > community-centered ISP. Of course, with FreeBSD's unbeatable href="&base;/internet.html">networking, your users will enjoy > @@ -63,11 +63,18 @@ > >
  • X Window workstation. From an inexpensive X terminal to an > advanced X display, FreeBSD works quite well. Free X software ( - href="http://www.xfree86.org/">XFree86™) comes with the > - system. Xi Graphics offers > - accelerated X software for high-performance graphics hardware (such > - as Matrox), as well as the industry standard Motif® and OpenGL® > - libraries.
    • > + href="http://x.org/">X.Org™) comes with the > + system. nVidia offers native > + drivers for their high-performance graphics hardware, > + and the industry standard Motif® and OpenGL® > + libraries are supported. Both the + href="http://www.kde.org">KDE and + href="http://www.gnome.org">GNOME desktop environments > + enjoy full support and provide office suite functionality, with > + further good functionality available in the + href="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.Org and > + TextMaker > + products. > >
  • Networking. 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.
    • > >
  • Net surfing. A real UNIX workstation makes a great Internet > - surfboard, and the BSD version of - href="http://home.netscape.com/comprod/products/communicator/index.html">Netscape > - Navigator with Java support runs on FreeBSD. Surf the web, > + surfboard. FreeBSD versions of + href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox > + and Opera 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.
    • > 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