Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:31:57 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/71712: Updates to the explaining-bsd article Message-ID: <200409132231.i8DMVvgB062148@buffy.york.ac.uk> Resent-Message-ID: <200409132240.i8DMeT3c031053@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 71712 >Category: docs >Synopsis: Updates to the explaining-bsd article >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 13 22:40:29 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gavin Atkinson >Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 i386 >Organization: >Environment: System: FreeBSD buffy.york.ac.uk 5.3-BETA2 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 #9: Mon Sep 6 15:59:27 BST 2004 root@buffy.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: Various updates to the explaining-bsd article to fix URLs, bring it up-to-date with current situation, and reword a couple of sentances. Second patch contains white-space only changes. The patches don't conflict and can be applied successfully in either order, although applying the whitespace patch first is probably best to not affect the hunk offsets. >How-To-Repeat: N/A >Fix: (Patches also at http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/explbsdws.diff for the whitespace changes, and http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/explbsd.diff for the content changes) Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 article.sgml --- article.sgml 31 Aug 2004 06:51:40 -0000 1.14 +++ article.sgml 13 Sep 2004 22:04:05 -0000 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ synonymous with <quote>Operating System</quote>, but it is not the only open source &unix; operating system. According to the <ulink - url="http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/data/r.9904.txt">Internet + url="http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/data/r.9904.txt">Internet Operating System Counter</ulink>, as of April 1999 31.3% of the world's network connected machines run Linux. 14.6% run BSD &unix;. Some of the world's largest web operations, such as <ulink @@ -76,15 +76,15 @@ <listitem> <para>The C library, the base API for the system.</para> - + <para><emphasis>The BSD C library is based on code from Berkeley, not the GNU project.</emphasis></para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para>Utilities such as shells, file utilities, compilers and linkers.</para> - + <para><emphasis>Some of the utilities are derived from the GNU project, others are not.</emphasis></para> </listitem> @@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ <sect1> <title>Why is BSD not better known?</title> - + <para>For a number of reasons, BSD is relatively unknown:</para> - + <orderedlist> <listitem> <para>The BSD developers are often more interested in polishing their @@ -459,11 +459,11 @@ </listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> - + <sect2> <title>How does the BSD license differ from the GNU Public license?</title> - + <para>Linux is available under the <ulink url="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</ulink> (GPL), which is designed to eliminate closed @@ -500,17 +500,17 @@ <para>What does this all mean in practice? Who should use BSD, who should use Linux?</para> - + <para>This is a very difficult question to answer. Here are some guidelines:</para> - + <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para><quote>If it ain't broke, don't fix it</quote>: If you already use an open source operating system, and you are happy with it, there is probably no good reason to change.</para> </listitem> - + <listitem> <para>BSD systems, in particular FreeBSD, can have notably higher performance than Linux. But this is not across the board. In many @@ -540,7 +540,7 @@ <sect2> <title>Who provides support, service, and training for BSD?</title> - + <para>BSDi have always supported BSD/OS, and they have recently announced support contracts for FreeBSD.</para> Index: article.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/article.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 article.sgml --- article.sgml 31 Aug 2004 06:51:40 -0000 1.14 +++ article.sgml 13 Sep 2004 22:18:23 -0000 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ <legalnotice id="trademarks" role="trademarks"> &tm-attrib.freebsd; + &tm-attrib.amd; &tm-attrib.apple; &tm-attrib.linux; &tm-attrib.opengroup; @@ -39,8 +40,8 @@ world's network connected machines run Linux. 14.6% run BSD &unix;. Some of the world's largest web operations, such as <ulink url="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!</ulink>, run BSD. The world's - busiest FTP server, <ulink - url="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">ftp.cdrom.com</ulink>, uses BSD to + busiest FTP server of 1999 (now defunct), <ulink + url="ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/">ftp.cdrom.com</ulink>, used BSD to transfer 1.4 TB of data a day. Clearly this is not a niche market: BSD is a well-kept secret.</para> @@ -93,8 +94,9 @@ <para>The X Window system, which handles graphical display.</para> <para>The X Window system used in most versions of BSD is maintained - by a separate project, the - <ulink url="http://www.XFree86.org/">&xfree86; project</ulink>. + by one of two separate projects, either the + <ulink url="http://www.XFree86.org/">&xfree86; project</ulink> or the + <ulink url="http://www.X.org/">X.Org project</ulink>. This is the same code as Linux uses. BSD does not normally specify a <quote>graphical desktop</quote> such as GNOME or KDE, though these are available.</para> @@ -246,7 +248,8 @@ <para>No one person or corporation owns BSD. It is created and distributed by a community of highly technical and committed contributors all over the world. Some of the components of BSD are - Open Source projects managed by a different project maintainer.</para> + Open Source projects in their own right and managed by different + project maintainers.</para> </sect2> <sect2> @@ -255,7 +258,7 @@ <para>The BSD kernels are developed and updated following the Open Source development model. Each project maintains a publicly accessible <emphasis>source tree</emphasis> under the - <ulink url="http://www.sourcegear.com/CVS/">Concurrent Versions + <ulink url="http://www.cvshome.org/">Concurrent Versions System</ulink> (CVS), which contains all source files for the project, including documentation and other incidental files. CVS allows users to <quote>check out</quote> (in other words, to @@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ <orderedlist> <listitem> <para>No one person controls the content of the system. In - practice, this difference is overrated, since the Chief Architect + practice, this difference is overrated, since the Principal Architect can require that code be backed out, and even in the Linux project several people are permitted to make changes.</para> </listitem> @@ -411,7 +414,10 @@ <listitem> <para>FreeBSD aims for high performance and ease of use by end users, and is a favourite of web content providers. It runs - on PCs and Compaq's Alpha processors. The FreeBSD project has + on a number of platforms, including i386 based systems (<quote>PCs</quote>), + systems based on the AMD 64-bit processors, &ultrasparc; based systems, + systems based on Compaq's Alpha processors and systems based around + the NEC PC-98 specification. The FreeBSD project has significantly more users than the other projects.</para> </listitem> >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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