From owner-svn-doc-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 21:43:36 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BCA327; Mon, 27 May 2013 21:43:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eadler@FreeBSD.org) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76861EA3; Mon, 27 May 2013 21:43:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r4RLhaQC070721; Mon, 27 May 2013 21:43:36 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from eadler@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.6/8.14.5/Submit) id r4RLhaxe070720; Mon, 27 May 2013 21:43:36 GMT (envelope-from eadler@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201305272143.r4RLhaxe070720@svn.freebsd.org> From: Eitan Adler Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:43:36 +0000 (UTC) To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41760 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction X-SVN-Group: doc-head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-doc-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire doc trees \(except for " user" , " projects" , and " translations" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 21:43:36 -0000 Author: eadler Date: Mon May 27 21:43:35 2013 New Revision: 41760 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41760 Log: Kill an old and outdated section which is better covered elsewhere (on the 'advocacy' portion of the website). Split the remainder into two Split the remainder into two Reviewed by: trhodes, bcr Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Mon May 27 20:56:55 2013 (r41759) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.xml Mon May 27 21:43:35 2013 (r41760) @@ -900,52 +900,19 @@ - The Current &os; Release - - NetBSD - OpenBSD - 386BSD - Free Software - Foundation - U.C. Berkeley - - Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) - - &os; is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite based - operating systems. It is based primarily on software from U.C. - Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, - OpenBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation. - - Since our release of &os; 2.0 in late 1994, the - performance, feature set, and stability of &os; has improved - dramatically. - - The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a - merged VM/file buffer cache that not only increases - performance, but also reduces &os;'s memory footprint, making - a 5 MB configuration a more acceptable minimum. Other - enhancements include full NIS client and server support, - transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP - support, an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for - ATM, FDDI, Fast and Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbit) - adapters, improved support for the latest Adaptec controllers, - and many thousands of bug fixes. + Third Party Programs In addition to the base distributions, &os; offers a ported software collection with thousands of commonly sought-after programs. At the time of this writing, there were over &os.numports; ports! The list of ports ranges from - http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost + http servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost everything in between. The entire Ports Collection requires - approximately &ports.size; of storage, all ports being - expressed as deltas to their original sources. - This makes it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly - reduces the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 Ports - Collection. To compile a port, you simply change to the - directory of the program you wish to install, type + approximately &ports.size;. To compile a port, you simply change + to the directory of the program you wish to install, type make install, and let the system do the rest. The full original distribution for each port you build - is retrieved dynamically off the CD-ROM or a local FTP site, + is retrieved dynamically so you need only enough disk space to build the ports you want. Almost every port is also provided as a pre-compiled package, which can be installed with a simple @@ -953,6 +920,10 @@ to compile their own ports from source. More information on packages and ports can be found in . + + + + Additional Documentation All recent &os; versions provide an option in the installer (either &man.sysinstall.8; or &man.bsdinstall.8;) to