Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:53:19 +0800 From: <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/84951: [patch] Linux Comparison Article fixes Message-ID: <E1E4fOx-00045y-00@mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Resent-Message-ID: <200508151400.j7FE0b4b031779@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 84951
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] Linux Comparison Article fixes
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 15 14:00:37 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David Adam <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
>Release: FreeBSD Documentation
>Organization:
University Computer Club, UWA
>Environment:
System: Linux mussel 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Mar 11 01:49:45 EST 2005
i686 GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
>Description:
Dru's (excellent) article contains a couple of small grammatical mistakes I
would like to see fixed.
>How-To-Repeat:
- Use of numbers instead of words to indicate the volume of
open-source projects.
- List of ways of finding commercial support vendors doesn't read quite
right, IMO.
>Fix:
See patch below:
--- linux-comparison-article.sgml.01.diff begins here ---
Index: article.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/linux-comparison/article.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 article.sgml
--- article.sgml 8 Aug 2005 22:08:06 -0000 1.5
+++ article.sgml 15 Aug 2005 13:37:44 -0000
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
<listitem><para>One of the problems associated with Open Source
software is the sheer volume of available applications. There
- are literally 10s of 1000s of Open Source application projects
+ are literally tens of thousands of Open Source application projects
each with varying levels of responsiveness to security
incidents. FreeBSD has met this challenge head-on with <ulink
url="http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/">VuXML</ulink>. All software
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@
site: <ulink
url="http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/"></ulink></para></listitem>;
- <listitem><para>FreeBSDMall has been selling support contracts
+ <listitem><para>FreeBSDMall, who have been selling support contracts
for nearly 10 years.
<ulink url="http://www.freebsdmall.com"></ulink></para></listitem>;
--- linux-comparison-article.sgml.01.diff ends here ---
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