Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:01:07 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: minor update to handbook introduction chapter Message-ID: <47d0403c0706282101k26619aa4r1f36d5e9da72e07c@mail.gmail.com>
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--- 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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