Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 06:11:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r51306 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products Message-ID: <201712140611.vBE6Ba2P000148@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Thu Dec 14 06:11:36 2017 New Revision: 51306 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/51306 Log: building-products: clean up a little bit - remove the keyword soup that claims that FreeBSD still supports IPX, ATM, EISA, and related. - remove the word 'advanced' used way too often (and untruthfully now-a-days) - make 'available technology' not a goal of the document, thus making it easier to keep up to date and reasonable - wordsmith the abstract a bit Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.xml Wed Dec 13 19:50:44 2017 (r51305) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/building-products/article.xml Thu Dec 14 06:11:36 2017 (r51306) @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ <abstract> <title>Abstract</title> - <para>The FreeBSD project is a worldwide, voluntary, and + <para>The FreeBSD project is a worldwide, volunteer based, and collaborative project, which develops a portable and high-quality operating system. The FreeBSD project distributes the source code for its product under a liberal license, with the @@ -110,10 +110,6 @@ Project and its organizational structure.</simpara> </listitem> <listitem> - <simpara>An overview of the available technology in the - project.</simpara> - </listitem> - <listitem> <simpara>An understanding of its development model and release engineering processes.</simpara> </listitem> @@ -286,30 +282,6 @@ </para> </listitem> <listitem> - <simpara>Support for the following technologies, protocols - and standards: <!-- Keyword soup. Urk. --> - <acronym>ATA</acronym>, <acronym>ATAPI</acronym>, - <acronym>ATM</acronym>, <trademark>Bluetooth</trademark>, - <acronym>CAM</acronym>, <trademark>CardBus</trademark>, - <acronym>DHCP</acronym>, <acronym>DNS</acronym>, - <trademark>EISA</trademark>, - <trademark>Ethernet</trademark>, <acronym>FDDI</acronym>, - Fibre Channel, <acronym>GPIB</acronym>, IEEE 1394, IPv4, - IPv6, <acronym>IPSEC</acronym>, - <trademark>IPX</trademark>, <acronym>ISDN</acronym>, - <acronym>MAC</acronym>, <acronym>NIS</acronym>, - <acronym>NFS</acronym>, OpenSSH, <acronym>OPIE</acronym>, - <acronym>PAM</acronym>, <trademark>PCI</trademark>, - <acronym>PCMCIA</acronym>, <trademark>POSIX</trademark>, - <acronym>PnP</acronym>, <acronym>RAID</acronym>, - <acronym>RPC</acronym>, <acronym>SATA</acronym>, - <acronym>SCSI</acronym>, <acronym>SMB</acronym>, - <acronym>TCP</acronym>, <acronym>USB</acronym>, - <acronym>VESA</acronym>, <acronym>VLAN</acronym>, - <acronym>VLB</acronym>, - <trademark>WebNFS</trademark>.</simpara> - </listitem> - <listitem> <simpara>A modular symmetric multiprocessing capable kernel, with loadable kernel modules and a flexible and easy to use configuration system.</simpara> @@ -328,21 +300,21 @@ environment.</simpara> </listitem> <listitem> - <simpara>Advanced security features: Mandatory Access + <simpara>Security features: Mandatory Access Control (&man.mac.9;), jails (&man.jail.2;), <acronym>ACL</acronym>s, and in-kernel cryptographic device support.</simpara> </listitem> <listitem> - <simpara>Advanced networking features: firewall-ing, QoS + <simpara>Networking features: firewall-ing, QoS management, high-performance TCP/IP networking with - support for many advanced features.</simpara> + support for many extensions.</simpara> <simpara>FreeBSD's in-kernel Netgraph (&man.netgraph.4;) framework allows kernel networking modules to be connected together in flexible ways.</simpara> </listitem> <listitem> - <simpara>Support for advanced storage technologies: Fibre + <simpara>Support for storage technologies: Fibre Channel, <acronym>SCSI</acronym>, software and hardware RAID, <acronym>ATA</acronym> and <acronym>SATA</acronym>.</simpara> @@ -626,7 +598,7 @@ This speeds up arg reduction by a factor of 2 for |x| FreeBSD. For example:</para> <formalpara> <title>Track FreeBSD source code</title> - <para>The project makes it easy to mirror its SVN + <para>The project makes it easy to mirror its SVN repository using <link xlink:href="&url.articles.committers-guide;/article.html#svn-advanced-use-setting-up-svnsync"><!-- --><application>svnsync</application></link>. Having the complete history of the source is useful when
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