From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 13 22:40:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AE116A4D2 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80CB643D76 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8DMeTJl031054 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:29 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8DMeT3c031053; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:29 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:29 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200409132240.i8DMeT3c031053@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Gavin Atkinson Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8790016A4CE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:32:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (mail-gw0.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52EE43D4C for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:32:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ga9@buffy.york.ac.uk) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (buffy.york.ac.uk [144.32.226.160]) by mail-gw0.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8DMVwlo006115 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:31:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from buffy.york.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8DMVvWd062149 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:31:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ga9@buffy.york.ac.uk) Received: (from ga9@localhost) by buffy.york.ac.uk (8.13.1/8.12.11/Submit) id i8DMVvgB062148; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:31:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ga9) Message-Id: <200409132231.i8DMVvgB062148@buffy.york.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:31:57 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: docs/71712: Updates to the explaining-bsd article X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gavin Atkinson List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:40:40 -0000 >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 Operating System, but it is not the only open source &unix; operating system. According to the Internet + url="http://www.leb.net/hzo/ioscount/data/r.9904.txt">Internet Operating System Counter, 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 The C library, the base API for the system. - + The BSD C library is based on code from Berkeley, not the GNU project. - + Utilities such as shells, file utilities, compilers and linkers. - + Some of the utilities are derived from the GNU project, others are not. @@ -177,9 +177,9 @@ Why is BSD not better known? - + For a number of reasons, BSD is relatively unknown: - + The BSD developers are often more interested in polishing their @@ -459,11 +459,11 @@ - + How does the BSD license differ from the GNU Public license? - + Linux is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is designed to eliminate closed @@ -500,17 +500,17 @@ What does this all mean in practice? Who should use BSD, who should use Linux? - + This is a very difficult question to answer. Here are some guidelines: - + If it ain't broke, don't fix it: If you already use an open source operating system, and you are happy with it, there is probably no good reason to change. - + 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 @@ Who provides support, service, and training for BSD? - + BSDi have always supported BSD/OS, and they have recently announced support contracts for FreeBSD. 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 @@ &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 Yahoo!, run BSD. The world's - busiest FTP server, ftp.cdrom.com, uses BSD to + busiest FTP server of 1999 (now defunct), ftp.cdrom.com, used BSD to transfer 1.4 TB of data a day. Clearly this is not a niche market: BSD is a well-kept secret. @@ -93,8 +94,9 @@ The X Window system, which handles graphical display. The X Window system used in most versions of BSD is maintained - by a separate project, the - &xfree86; project. + by one of two separate projects, either the + &xfree86; project or the + X.Org project. This is the same code as Linux uses. BSD does not normally specify a graphical desktop such as GNOME or KDE, though these are available. @@ -246,7 +248,8 @@ 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. + Open Source projects in their own right and managed by different + project maintainers. @@ -255,7 +258,7 @@ The BSD kernels are developed and updated following the Open Source development model. Each project maintains a publicly accessible source tree under the - Concurrent Versions + Concurrent Versions System (CVS), which contains all source files for the project, including documentation and other incidental files. CVS allows users to check out (in other words, to @@ -312,7 +315,7 @@ 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. @@ -411,7 +414,10 @@ 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 (PCs), + 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. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: