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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 2013 22:55:47 GMT
From:      Olivier Cochard-Labbe <olivier@cochard.me>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   www/178190: myths web page should be updated
Message-ID:  <201304262255.r3QMtlHc053697@red.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <201304262300.r3QN01hI001982@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         178190
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       myths web page should be updated
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 26 23:00:00 UTC 2013
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>Originator:     Olivier Cochard-Labbe
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Reading this page: http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/myths.html

We found old facts like:

"All the *BSD Projects use CVS to maintain their source code.

All the *BSD Projects: make a CVS tree available for anyone to browse and download, 24 hours a day. The tree can be retrieved using Anonymous CVS, CVSup, CVSupit, CTM (by e-mail), or through simple FTP."


=> FreeBSD migrate to SVN some time ago
=> Is important to precise "24 hours a day" ?

We should replace this part by something like that:

"All the *BSD Projects use SVN or at least CVS to maintain their source code.

All the *BSD Projects: make a SVN or CVS tree available for anyone to browse and download, 24 hours a day. The tree can be retrieved using Anonymous CVS, CVSup, CVSupit, CTM (by e-mail), SVN, or through simple FTP/HTTP."




On the "You cannot make your own distributions or derivative works of *BSD" section, there are some died link/project:

- ThinBSD => Blank page website, don't know if it's still alive

And FreeNAS and NAS4Free are missing from this list too.

Other outdated fact: 

The "Technological enhancements" list should be updated (Capsicum, ZFS, etc...)

Other outdated fact:
"Architecture ports: FreeBSD supports seven main architectures currently: Alpha, AMD64, i386, Itanium, PC-98, PowerPC and UltraSPARC"

=> We should remove Alpha and add ARM

The "You can't cluster *BSD systems (parallel computing)" section should be updated with the HybridCluster (http://www.hybrid-cluster.com/) example that is more recent than the given examples.

Other outdated fact:
"FreeBSD: There are currently more than 16,000 applications ready to download and install in the FreeBSD ports collection."

=> FreshPorts indicate 24,376 ports.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:





>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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