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Date:      Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:58:10 -0400
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Update for www/amd64/motherboards.sgml - please review
Message-ID:  <20050815155810.A95917@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <1124135653.37769.16.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>; from pav@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:54:13PM %2B0200
References:  <20050815154552.A95576@cons.org> <1124135653.37769.16.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>

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Pav Lucistnik wrote on Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:54:13PM +0200: 
> Martin Cracauer píse v po 15. 08. 2005 v 15:45 -0400:
> > Can somebody who has the SGML system running and is a native speaker
> > of English please review the appended diff?
> > 
> > It contains entries for the 4 mainboards that I tried with
> > FreeBSD/AMD64 recently.
> 
> I'm the lord of motherboard page...
> 
> Could you please make the Notes fields a little less verbose, and drop
> all strictly non-technical stuff? Check 
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html
> for inspiration. No prices, no reviews, no feelings, just terse notes
> about what works with FreeBSD and what not.

I don't think that would be too useful.  Things are a little more
complicated than just "works" or not.

I'll drop some of the pure impression stuff, lets see how we are doing
then. 

> Also please wrap the lines at 72. Or I can fix the style once we're
> happy with the content.

OK, I was just following the style of the other entries.

> More notes:
> - Dual-core Opteron == Opteron rev. E.

No, different things.  All dual-cores are E steppings, but there are
single-core E stepping processors, too.

> - please use formal talk, Windoze -> Windows ...

Ohhhhhhh :-)

Martin
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