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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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