Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:23:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r45802 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201410122123.s9CLNaB3084348@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: wblock Date: Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 New Revision: 45802 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45802 Log: Clarity and consistency edits. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:04:40 2014 (r45801) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-07-2014-09.xml Sun Oct 12 21:23:35 2014 (r45802) @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ 2014.</p> <p>The third quarter of 2014 was another productive quarter for - the FreeBSD project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM + the &os; project. A lot of work has been done on various ARM platforms, with the goal of bringing them to Tier 1 status in &os; 11. The various ports teams have also worked hard to improve the state of &os; as a desktop operating system. As usual, @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>ZFS is one of the premier features of &os; and the quality + <p>ZFS is one of the premier features of &os;, and the quality of the documentation should match that of other important features. Much of the original documentation from Sun and Oracle has disappeared, moved, or is about the proprietary @@ -372,18 +372,17 @@ about ZFS than proper documentation.</p> <p>After over a year of work, a new ZFS chapter has been added - to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describing the - basics of creating, managing and maintaining a ZFS pool, as - well as using some of the advanced features like compression, - deduplication, and delegation. The chapter also contains a + to the &os; Handbook. Over 20,000 words describe the + basics of creating, managing, and maintaining a ZFS pool. + Advanced features like compression, + deduplication, and delegation are covered. The chapter also contains a glossary of terms, explaining a number of the concepts unique - to ZFS. The chapter also includes documentation of some of - the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can be used to tune - ZFS.</p> + to ZFS, and documents some of + the many <tt>sysctl</tt> variables that can be used for tuning.</p> - <p>The remaining work is the FAQ section, which aims to help + <p>The remaining work to be done is in the FAQ section, which aims to help users address the most common questions or problems they might - face with ZFS. It would be useful to hear experiences, + face with ZFS. We would like to hear experiences, questions, misconceptions, gotchas, stumbling blocks and suggestions for the FAQ section from other users. A use cases section that highlights some of the cases where ZFS provides @@ -602,9 +601,9 @@ <p>Note that running Asan tests on stable/10 requires that state to be set to 1.</p> - <p>A similar work dedicated to add &os; support to the thread + <p>A similar work is in progress to add &os; support to the thread sanitizer (Tsan), which detects data races in parallel - programs, is in progress.</p> + programs.</p> </body> </project> @@ -626,7 +625,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>This is a Google Summer of code project that aims to provide + <p>This is a Google Summer of code project to provide a noninteractive &os; installation from the network. In the first part, an implementation was added for scripted <tt>bsdinstall(8)</tt>. It supports variables such as KEYMAP, @@ -687,9 +686,9 @@ <p>MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. The MATE ports were updated to the 1.8 versions.</p> - <p>Now that cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, - has been updated to 1.12 the merge of GNOME 3 has started. - Currently we are doing test builds to find ports broken by the + <p>Cairo, the vector graphics library used by GNOME, + has been updated to 1.12. This allowed the merge of GNOME 3 to begin. + We are currently doing test builds to find ports broken by the update and pruning ports that do not build any more because of incompatible updates.</p> @@ -1199,7 +1198,7 @@ <task> <p>Write a CAM peripheral driver that implements an interface - to the FreeBSD <tt>disk(9)</tt>. It will send MMC I/O + to the &os; <tt>disk(9)</tt>. It will send MMC I/O commands using the MMC XPT layer.</p> </task> @@ -1321,10 +1320,10 @@ <body> <p><tt>bhyve</tt> is a hypervisor that runs on the FreeBSD/amd64 - platform. At present, it runs FreeBSD (8.x or later), Linux + platform. At present, it runs &os; (8.x or later), Linux i386/x64, OpenBSD i386/amd64, and NetBSD/amd64 guests. Current development is focused on enabling additional guest - operating systems, and implementing features found in other + operating systems and implementing features found in other hypervisors.</p> <p>A significant amount of progress has been made since the last @@ -1367,7 +1366,7 @@ <li>Virtio RNG device emulation</li> - <li>Chapter about <tt>bhyve</tt> added to FreeBSD + <li>Chapter about <tt>bhyve</tt> added to &os; Handbook</li> </ul> </body> @@ -1853,9 +1852,9 @@ The project to update the Intel graphics chipset driver (i915kms) to a recent snapshot of the Linux upstream code continues. A patch with a large chunk of updates has been - made available to check for regressions against current - functionality, but is not yet expected to provide fully - functional new functionality. The GEM I/O ioctl code path + made available to test for regressions against current + functionality, but is not yet expected to provide working new functions. + The GEM I/O ioctl code path has been modified to more closely resemble the Linux code structure (easing future imports). </p> @@ -2011,10 +2010,10 @@ </contact> <body> - <p>CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI + <p>The CAM Target Layer (CTL), used as base for the kernel iSCSI server, got support for VMWare VAAI and Microsoft ODX storage acceleration. It permits avoiding network - bottlenecks and improved storage efficiency on sets of large + bottlenecks and improves storage efficiency on sets of large operations, such as virtual machine (or large file) creation, initialization to zeros, copy, delete, etc..</p> @@ -2250,7 +2249,7 @@ <p>In mid-July, &os; 9.3-RELEASE was released without delay in release cycle.</p> - <p>In late August, &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of + <p>In late August, the &os; 10.1-RELEASE cycle began, and as of this writing, is expected to stay on schedule.</p> <p>Work has continued to produce virtual machine images as part
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