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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>
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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&nbsp;2.0 in late 94, the performance,
> +      <para>Since our release of FreeBSD&nbsp;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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