Fix various minor wording nits, use <quote> for quoting,

use &os.numports; instead of a hardcoded Ports number,
and note that `Alpha' is a supported architecture up to
version 6.X of FreeBSD.
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Giorgos Keramidas 2006-10-16 11:59:08 +00:00
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<title>Abstract</title>
<para>The FreeBSD project is a worldwide, voluntary, and
collaborative project developing a portable and high-quality
collaborative project, which develops a portable and high-quality
operating system. The FreeBSD project distributes the source
code for its product under a liberal license, with the
intention of encouraging the use of its code. Collaborating
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<listitem>
<simpara>FreeBSD source code is distributed under a liberal
BSD license facilitating its adoption in commercial products
<citation>Mon2005</citation> with the minimum of hassle.</simpara>
<citation>Mon2005</citation> with minimum hassle.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>The FreeBSD project has excellent engineering
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<listitem>
<simpara>As a Unix compatible environment for the management
functions of high-end storage and networking devices,
running on a separate processor 'blade'.</simpara>
running on a separate processor <quote>blade</quote>.</simpara>
<simpara>FreeBSD provides the tools for creating dedicated
OS and application program images. Its implementation of
a BSD unix API is mature and tested. FreeBSD can also
@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
url="http://www.rtems.com/">RTEMS</ulink> and <ulink
url="http://ecos.sourceware.org/">eCOS</ulink>.</simpara>
<simpara>There are many full-fledged development environments
in the 13,000-strong collection of applications ported and
in the &os.numports;-strong collection of applications ported and
packaged with FreeBSD.</simpara>
</listitem>
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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<simpara>A complete system that can cross-host itself for
the following architectures: alpha, amd64, ia64, i386,
the following architectures: alpha (up to &os; version 6.X), amd64, ia64, i386,
sparc64, powerpc (see &man.build.7;).</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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composed in flexible ways.</simpara>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<simpara>Over 13,000 ported applications, both commercial
<simpara>Over &os.numports; ported applications, both commercial
and open-source, managed via the FreeBSD ports
collection.</simpara>
</listitem>