Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:16 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" <murray.stokely@gmail.com> To: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minor update to handbook introduction chapter Message-ID: <474078f80706282142h316600aar17a02e807cfb6052@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47d0403c0706282101k26619aa4r1f36d5e9da72e07c@mail.gmail.com> References: <47d0403c0706282101k26619aa4r1f36d5e9da72e07c@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks Ben, I've made these changes (and also added SCTP to list of
networking technologies supported).
Your second correction points out how old and crufty that section is.
I will ping a few people about adding a paragraph about FreeBSD 7.0
features, SMP, multithreading, etc..
- Murray
On 6/28/07, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is this worth send-pr-ing?
>
> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml
>
> --- chapter.sgml.orig 2007-06-28 22:50:50.000000000 -0500
> +++ chapter.sgml 2007-06-28 22:57:53.000000000 -0500
> @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@
> <indexterm><primary>TCP/IP networking</primary></indexterm>
> <listitem>
> <para>Strong <emphasis>TCP/IP networking</emphasis> with
> - support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP,
> - and NIS. This means that your FreeBSD machine can
> + support for industry standards such as DHCP, NFS, NIS, PPP,
> + and SLIP. This means that your FreeBSD machine can
> interoperate easily with other systems as well as act as an
> enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS
> (remote file access) and email services or putting your
> @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@
> CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and
> the Free Software Foundation.</para>
>
> - <para>Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 94, the performance,
> + <para>Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 1994, the
> performance,
> feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically.
> <!-- XXX is the rest of this paragraph still true ? -->
> The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a merged
>
> SLIP was modern in 4.3 BSD -- perhaps we no longer need to have it
> heading the list of industry standards we support?
>
> ``late 94'' is just bad grammar -- either use the full form 1994 (as
> above), or add an apostrophe.
>
> -Ben Kaduk
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