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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:11:46 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Isabell Long <issyl0@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r39033 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy
Message-ID:  <201206121711.q5CHBkL5065521@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: issyl0
Date: Tue Jun 12 17:11:45 2012
New Revision: 39033
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39033

Log:
  - SGMLify the wiki's 'Why Use FreeBSD?' article into a new article in the
  advocacy section of the website.
  - Add the new article to the Makefile.
  - Add a link to it and some description of it to the advocacy index.sgml.
  
  Submitted by:	users on -stable, via theraven
  SGMLified by:	issyl0
  Reviewed by:	gabor
  Approved by:	gabor (mentor)

Added:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/whyusefreebsd.sgml   (contents, props changed)
Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/Makefile
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/index.sgml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/Makefile	Tue Jun 12 13:31:13 2012	(r39032)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/Makefile	Tue Jun 12 17:11:45 2012	(r39033)
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@
 
 DOCS=   index.sgml
 DOCS+=	myths.sgml
-
+DOCS+=	whyusefreebsd.sgml
 .include "${DOC_PREFIX}/share/mk/web.site.mk"

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/index.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/index.sgml	Tue Jun 12 13:31:13 2012	(r39032)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/index.sgml	Tue Jun 12 17:11:45 2012	(r39033)
@@ -24,6 +24,12 @@
     <h2>Web resources</h2>
 
     <ul>
+	<li><p><a href="whyusefreebsd.html">Why Use FreeBSD?</a></p>
+
+	<p>Explanations given by existing users as to why FreeBSD should
+	  be used.</p></li>
+    </ul>
+    <ul>
         <li><p><a href="myths.html">*BSD Myths</a></p>
 
 	<p>Describes and debunks some of the myths that surround the *BSD

Added: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/whyusefreebsd.sgml
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--- /dev/null	00:00:00 1970	(empty, because file is newly added)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/advocacy/whyusefreebsd.sgml	Tue Jun 12 17:11:45 2012	(r39033)
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based
+Extension//EN" [
+<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
+<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
+<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Advocacy Project">
+<!ENTITY % navinclude.about "INCLUDE">
+<!ENTITY url.articles "../doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles">
+]>
+
+<html>
+  &header;
+
+  <h1>Why Choose &os;?</h1>
+
+    <p>Why would you consider using &os;?  We think that there are
+      lots of reasons.  Here is a selection of reasons that some of
+      our existing users gave for their choice of operating system.</p>
+
+    <h2>The Community</h2>
+
+      <p>&os; is a community-driven operating system despite it being
+	sponsored corporately.  &os; has active mailing lists,
+	forums, and IRC channels where experienced users and
+	developers are always willing to help the less
+	experienced.</p>
+
+      <p>The community is largely driven by technology, not ideology,
+	and is focused on building the best possible system and making
+	&os; as widely used as possible, not on pushing any other
+	agendas.</p>
+
+      <p>There is no dictator&mdash;benevolent or
+	otherwise&mdash;for the project.  The Core Team is elected and
+	is nominally responsible for overseeing the goals of the project,
+	but this is a very light touch.  Core mediates disputes between
+	developers, but rarely needs to take an active role in
+	development, beyond their separate contributions as individual
+	developers.</p>
+
+    <h2>Stability</h2>
+
+      <p>Stability means many different things.  &os; very rarely
+	crashes (and when it does it is usually due to hardware
+	faults), but while that was a great boast a decade ago, now it
+	is an expected feature for any operating system.</p>
+
+      <p>Stability in &os; means much more than that.  It means that
+	upgrading the system doesn't require upgrading the user.
+	Configuration interfaces do change over time, but only when
+	there is a good reason.  If you learned how to use &os; in
+	2000, most of your knowledge would still be relevant.</p>
+
+      <p>Backwards compatibility is very important to the &os; team,
+	and any release in a major release series is expected to
+	be able to run any code&mdash;including kernel
+	modules&mdash;that ran on an earlier version.  The entire base
+	system is developed together, including the kernel, the core
+	utilities, and the configuration system, so upgrades are
+	usually painless.  Included tools like mergemaster help update
+	configuration files with little or no manual intervention.</p>
+
+    <h2>Early Adoption and Collaboration With Other Projects</h2>
+
+      <p>&os; has been one of the first adopters of the LLVM
+	infrastructure, including the clang compiler and the libc++
+	stack.  The entire &os; 9.x system,  including kernel and
+	userspace, can build with clang, and from &os; 9.1 both clang
+	and the permissively-licensed libc++ are included, giving a
+	modern, BSD-licensed C++ stack.  Several &os; developers are
+	also active contributors to LLVM, ensuring that both projects
+	thrive together.</p>
+
+      <p>This same collaboration works downstream, with projects like
+	PC-BSD and pfSense building on top of the &os; base to provide
+	desktop and firewall oriented distributions, respectively.
+	These projects are not forks, they base their work on the
+	latest version of &os; and customize the system for specific
+	uses.</p>
+
+    <h2>Simple Configuration</h2>
+
+      <p>&os; service initialization is very simple.  Each service,
+	whether part of the base system or installed from a port, comes
+	with a script that is responsible for starting and stopping it
+	(and often some other options).  The /etc/rc.conf file
+	contains a list of variables for enabling and configuring
+	services.  Want to enable ssh?  Just add sshd_enable="YES" to
+	your rc.conf file.  This system makes it easy to see at a
+	glance everything that will be started when your system
+	boots.</p>
+
+      <p>The rc system that reads this file understands dependencies
+	between services and so can automatically launch them in
+	parallel, or wait until one is finished before starting the
+	things that it needs.  You get all of the benefits of a modern
+	configuration system, without a complex interface.</p>
+
+    <h2>Ports</h2>
+
+      <p>The ports tree contains a large collection of third-party
+	software, including older versions of some things where the
+	userbase is divided about the benefits of upgrading, and a lot
+	of niche programs.  The chances are that anything you want to
+	run which works on &os; will be there.</p>
+
+      <p>Unlike some other systems, &os; maintains a clean division
+	between the base system and third-party ports and packages.
+	All third-party software goes in /usr/local, so if you want to
+	repurpose a machine then it's trivial to simply delete all
+	installed packages and then start installing the ones that you
+	want.</p>
+
+      <p>The upcoming pkgng tool makes working with binary packages
+	even easier, although source installs are still supported for
+	people who want the level of configurability that this
+	implies.</p>
+
+    <h2>Security</h2>
+
+      <p>Security is vital in any network-connected machine.  &os;
+	provides a number of tools for ensuring that you can maintain a
+	secure system, such as:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>Jails, allowing you to run applications or entire systems
+	  in a sandbox that can't access the rest of the system.  With
+	  tools like ezjail and ZFS you can instantly create a new
+	  jail with a clone of an existing system, using a tiny amount
+	  of disk space, and run untrusted code inside it.</li>
+	<li>Mandatory Access Control, from the TrustedBSD project,
+	  allowing you to configure access control policies for all
+	  operating system resources.</li>
+	<li>Capsicum, from &os; 9 onwards, allows developers to easily
+	  implement privilege separation, reducing the impact of
+	  compromised code.</li>
+	<li>The VuXML system for publishing vulnerabilities in ports,
+	  which integrates with tools such as portaudit, so that your
+	  daily security email tells you about any known
+	  vulnerabilities in ported software.</li>
+	<li>Security event auditing, using the BSM standard.</li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <p>And, of course, all of the standard features that you'd
+	expect from a modern &unix; system including IPSec, SSH, and so
+	on.</p>
+
+    <h2>ZFS</h2>
+
+      <p>Cheap snapshots, clones, end-to-end checksums, deduplication,
+	compression, and no need to decide partition sizes on install.
+	Using ZFS for a few days makes going back to a more
+	traditional volume manager painful.  If you want to test
+	something with ZFS, then it's trivial to just create a
+	snapshot and roll back if it didn't work.</p>
+
+      <p>If you're using jails, then ZFS lets you clone an existing
+	jail in under a second, irrespective of how big the jail
+	itself is.</p>
+
+    <h2>GEOM</h2>
+
+      <p>Even without ZFS, &os; comes with a rich storage system.
+	GEOM layers providers and consumers in arbitrary ways,
+	allowing you to use two networked machines for
+	high-availability storage, use your choice of RAID level, or
+	add features like compression or encryption.</p>
+
+    <h2>Working Sound</h2>
+
+      <p>&os; 4.x introduced in-kernel sound mixing, so that multiple
+	applications could play sound at the same time even with cheap
+	sound cards with no hardware mixing support.  &os; 5.x
+	automatically allocated new channels to applications, without
+	any configuration.</p>
+
+      <p>Now, &os; has low-latency sound mixing with per-application
+	volume controls and full support for the OSS 4 APIs out of the
+	box.  There's no need to configure a userspace sound daemon.
+	The same audio APIs that were used a decade ago still work on
+	&os;,  including some compatibility modes to allow
+	applications that try to manipulate the global volume to only
+	change their own.  If you want to watch DVDs with 5.1 surround
+	sound, just install your favourite media player and press
+	play.</p>
+
+    <h2>My System, How I Want It</h2>
+
+      <p>&os; gives you an easy-to-use, working, &unix;-like system.
+	This base system can then be extended easily.  If you want to
+	run KDE or GNOME, then just install the metapackage for the
+	version that you prefer.  If you want a headless server, then
+	it's equally easy to install the server tools that you want.</p>
+
+      <p>It's easy to run the &os; installer via a serial port and to
+	configure the entire system from the terminal.  It's also easy
+	to install and use an existing desktop environment.  The
+	decisions about the kind of system you want to use are left to
+	you.</p>
+
+      <p>If you're deploying &os; in a corporate environment, then
+	it's very easy to customise both the base system and the set
+	of installed packages for your specific requirements.  The
+	build system provides numerous tuneable variables allowing you
+	to build exactly the base system that meets your needs.</p>
+
+  &footer;
+</html>



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