Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 21:08:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42920 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201310092108.r99L8gvh029918@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Wed Oct 9 21:08:41 2013 New Revision: 42920 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42920 Log: - Minor improvements for the Newcons report Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Wed Oct 9 19:25:44 2013 (r42919) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml Wed Oct 9 21:08:41 2013 (r42920) @@ -1560,14 +1560,14 @@ </links> <body> - <p>The Newcons project is aimed to replace old graphic virtual - terminal named "syscons". The main objectives are: support - Unicode characters and move away from the dependency on fixed - graphic modes (such as VGA and VESA) and built-in services (such - as BIOS).</p> + <p>The Newcons project is aimed to replace the old + <tt>syscons(4)</tt>-based virtual terminals. The main + objectives are: support Unicode characters, and move away from + the dependency on fixed VGA and VESA graphics modes and built-in + BIOS services.</p> - <p>This project was started by Ed Schouten originally, and in 2013 - it already featured the following (among many others):</p> + <p>This project was originally started by Ed Schouten, and it + already featured the following (among many others) in 2013:</p> <ul> <li>Unicode fonts with Latin, Cyrillic and some more simple @@ -1575,21 +1575,22 @@ <li>Unicode output support.</li> <li>Graphics mode support.</li> <li>Text mode support.</li> - <li><tt>sysmouse(4)</tt> (without copy-paste) support.</li> + <li><tt>sysmouse(4)</tt> support, without copy/paste.</li> </ul> - <p>And these has been extended by the following items + <p>And these have been extended by the following items recently:</p> <ul> - <li>History, that is, the ability to scroll via terminal - history. Old, separate history buffer has been removed.</li> + <li>History, that is, the ability to scroll through the terminal + history. The old, separate history buffer has been + removed.</li> <li>The history is implemented by a circular buffer, that is, no buffer - overflow, but unlimited scrolling.</li> + overflow but unlimited scrolling.</li> <li><tt>VT_PROCESS</tt> mode, a way to hold the terminal. For - examle, X.Org uses this features to prevent the user from + example, X.Org uses this feature to prevent the user from switching terminals.</li> <li><tt>drm2/fb_helper</tt>, the KMS driver. This binds Newcons @@ -1615,7 +1616,7 @@ <p>This project is being sponsored by The &os; Foundation. Many thanks to Ed Schouten, who started the Newcons project and did - most work.</p> + most of the work.</p> </body> <help> @@ -1631,7 +1632,7 @@ <task>Bug fixes.</task> - <task>Integrate into &os; <tt>HEAD</tt>.</task> + <task>Integrate into &os; <tt>head</tt>.</task> <task>Integrate into &os; 10.0.</task>
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