Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:18:55 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: murray@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/81969: Corrections to os-comparisons slides Message-ID: <200506061918.j56JItpd025026@buffy.york.ac.uk> Resent-Message-ID: <200506061920.j56JKL2S036954@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 81969
>Category: www
>Synopsis: Corrections to os-comparisons slides
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-www
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jun 06 19:20:20 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gavin Atkinson
>Release: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
There are various grammar errors and spelling mistakes in
www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
--- os-comparison.diff begins here ---
Index: www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -r1.3 os-comparison.sgml
--- www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml 9 May 2005 16:06:12 -0000 1.3
+++ www/en/marketing/os-comparison.sgml 6 Jun 2005 19:12:19 -0000
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
products are secure, but they offer no guarantee, and their
software is not available for inspection or peer review. Since
Windows is <em>closed source</em> there is no way for users to
- fix or diagnose any of the security compromises that are regular
+ fix or diagnose any of the security compromises that are regularly
published about Microsoft systems.</p>
<p>Microsoft Windows has been affected by a very large number of
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
<td><img src="../gifs/smiley.png" alt="[Great]">Microsoft has excellent
relationships with hardware vendors. There are often conflicts
when using device drivers on different versions of Microsoft
- Windowds, but overall Windows users have excellent access to
+ Windows, but overall Windows users have excellent access to
third party device drivers.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@
<td><img src="../gifs/frowny.png" alt="[Bad]">The amount of free Windows
software is much less than what is available for Unix. Many
- Windodws applications are provided as "shareware", without
+ Windows applications are provided as "shareware", without
source code, so the programs cannot be customized, debugged,
improved, or extended by the user.</td>
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
<td><img src="../gifs/smiley.png" alt="[Great]">FreeBSD is an advanced BSD Unix
operating system. The source code for the entire system is
available in a centralized source code repository running under
- CVS. A large team (300+) of senior developers has write access
+ CVS. A large team (300+) of senior developers have write access
to this repository and they coordinate development by reviewing
and committing the best changes of the development community at
large. FreeBSD is engineered to find elegant solutions for
@@ -332,11 +332,11 @@
a problem yourself.</td>
<td><img src="../gifs/plain.png" alt="[OK]">Although support is available for
- Windows XP, you should be prepare to spend as long as an hour on
+ Windows XP, you should be prepared to spend as long as an hour on
hold, with no guarantee that your problem will be resolved.
Because of the <em>closed source</em> nature of Windows, there
is no informal, free support available, and bugs can only be
- fixed on Microsoft's schedule, not yours. Windows Windows XP is
+ fixed on Microsoft's schedule, not yours. Windows XP is
not updated frequently, you may wait years for bugs to be
fixed.</td>
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
administrative overhead. The initial learning curve for simple
administration tasks is smaller than with Unix, but it also
requires a lot more work to keep the system running with any
- signficiant work load.</td>
+ significant work load.</td>
</tr>
<TR>
<TH>Total</TH>
@@ -428,16 +428,16 @@
<h2>Performance Benchmarks</h2>
<p>Numerous benchmarks have continued to show FreeBSD's clear
-advantage for network performance. Yahoo!, Xoom.com, QWest, and some
+advantage for network performance. Yahoo!, Xoom.com, Qwest, and some
of our other largest customers have published results showing the
clear case for using FreeBSD in the enterprise. It's important to
understand that benchmarking is just a game, and that for real
performance comparisons you need to perform real-world test. However,
it's easy to find published benchmarks on the Internet which show
-FreeBSD with a commanding lead over the competition :</p>
+FreeBSD with a commanding lead over the competition:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Garnet Group Comparisons showing FreeBSD 20-30% faster than
+ <li>Gartner Group Comparisons showing FreeBSD 20-30% faster than
Linux on identical hardware: <a
href="http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8">http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8</a>.</li>;
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@
<h2>Security</h2>
<p>The Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT, studies Internet
-security vulnerability, provides incident response services to sites
+security vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to sites
that have been victims of attack, publishes a variety of security
alerts, does research in wide-networked computing, and develops
information and training to help improve security at Internet
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@
and clean up after itself! Ports can of course depend on other
ports which are built automatically in the same fashion and binary
packages can be used as well. The FreeBSD Ports Collection was
- recognizes very early on as an elegant method to deal with a complex
+ recognized very early on as an elegant method to deal with a complex
problem so it's functionality has been shared with the other BSD
Unix systems and some Linux distributions as well.</p>
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