Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:20:35 +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: r40968 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs Message-ID: <201302141420.r1EEKZwP038482@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: eadler Date: Thu Feb 14 14:20:34 2013 New Revision: 40968 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40968 Log: Make some small cleanups to features.xml Submitted by: bjk, wblock Approved by: bcr (mentor) Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml Thu Feb 14 14:20:32 2013 (r40967) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/features.xml Thu Feb 14 14:20:34 2013 (r40968) @@ -15,17 +15,17 @@ <h1>&os; offers many unique features.</h1> - <p>No matter what the application, you want your system's - resources performing at their full potential. &os;'s focus - on performance, networking, and storage, combined with easy - system administration and excellent documentation to allow - you to do what you want.</p> + <p>No matter what the application, an operating system should take + advantage of every resource available. &os;'s focus on + performance, networking, and storage combines with ease of system + administration and comprehensive documentation to realize the full + potential of any computer.</p> <h2>A complete operating system based on 4.4BSD.</h2> <p>&os;'s distinguished roots derive from the <b>BSD</b> software releases from the Computer Systems Research Group at - the University of California, Berkeley. Over fifteen years of + the University of California, Berkeley. Over twenty years of work have been put into enhancing &os;, adding industry-leading scalability, network performance, management tools, file systems, and security features. As a result, @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ CAPABILITY_MODE have been added to the GENERIC kernel.</li> <li><b>Hhook</b>: (Helper Hook) and khelp(9) (Kernel Helpers) - KPIs have been implemented. These are a kind of superset of + KPIs have been implemented. These are a superset of pfil(9) framework for more general use in the kernel. The hhook(9) KPI provides a way for kernel subsystems to export hook points that khelp(9) modules can hook to provide @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ These allow a structured way to dynamically extend the kernel at runtime in an ABI preserving manner.</li> <li><b>Accounting API:</b> has been implemented. It can keep - per-process, per-jail, and per-loginclass resource - accounting information. Note that this is not built nor - installed by default. To build and install them, specify + per-process, per-jail, and per-login class resource + accounting information. Note that this is neither built nor + installed by default. To build and install this, specify options RACCT in the kernel configuration file and rebuild the base system as described in the FreeBSD Handbook</li> @@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ implementation and takes user-configurable actions based on the set of rules it maintains and the current resource usage. The rctl(8) utility has been added to manage the - rules in userland. Note that this is not built nor + rules in userland. Note that this is neither built nor installed by default.</li> <li><b>Usb:</b> subsystem now supports USB packet filter. - This allows to capture packets which go through each USB - host controller. The implementation is almost based on - bpf(4) code. The userland program usbdump(8) has been + This allows capturing packets which go through each USB + host rchitecture of the packet filter is similar to that of + bpf. The userland program usbdump(8) has been added.</li> <li><b>Infiniband support:</b>, OFED (OpenFabrics Enterprise @@ -86,16 +86,16 @@ <li><b>TCP/IP network:</b> stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework. This allows TCP congestion control algorithms to be implemented as - dynamically loadable kernel modules. The following kernel - modules are available cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay + dynamically loadable kernel modules. Many kernel + modules are available: cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_cubic(4) for the CUBIC algorithm, cc_hd(4) for the Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_htcp(4) for the H-TCP algorithm, cc_newreno(4) for the NewReno algorithm, and cc_vegas(4) for the Vegas algorithm. The default algorithm can be set by a new sysctl(8) variable - net. inet. tcp. cc. algorithm.</li> + net.inet.tcp.cc.algorithm.</li> - <li><b>SU+J:</b> &os; Fast File System now supports soft + <li><b>SU+J:</b> &os;'s Fast File System now supports soft updates with journaling. It introduces an intent log into a softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need for background fsck(8) even on unclean shutdowns.</li> @@ -118,13 +118,13 @@ improvement over the previous version.</li> <li><b>Linux emulation:</b> layer has been updated to version - 2. 6. 16 and the default Linux infrastructure port is now + 2.6.16 and the default Linux infrastructure port is now emulators/linux_base-f10 (Fedora 10)</li> - <li><b>Network Virtualization:</b> Container named vimage has + <li><b>Network Virtualization:</b> A container ("vimage") has been implemented, extending the FreeBSD kernel to maintain multiple independent instances of networking state. - vimage facilities can be used independently to create fully + Vimage facilities can be used independently to create fully virtualized network topologies, and jail(8) can directly take advantage of a fully virtualized network stack.</li> </ul>
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