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Add a new section to the preface about the chances since the 2004-era

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print editions, to make it easier to see what new chapters and content
were added to the Handbook.
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<para>For a list of additional sources of information, please see <xref
linkend="bibliography">.</para>
<bridgehead id="preface-changes-from2" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
Second Edition</bridgehead>
<bridgehead id="preface-changes-from3" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
Third Edition</bridgehead>
<para>This third edition is the culmination of over two years of
<para>The current online version of the Handbook represents the
cumulative effort of many hundreds of contributors over the past
10 years. The following are some of the significant changes since
the two volume third edition was published in 2004:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><xref linkend="dtrace">, DTrace, has been added with
information about the powerful DTrace performance analysis
tool.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><xref linkend="filesystems">, File Systems Support, has
been added with information about non-native file systems in
&os;, such as ZFS from &sun;.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><xref linkend="virtualization">, Virtualization, has
been added with information about installing &os; on
virtualization software.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead id="preface-changes-from2" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
Second Edition (2004)</bridgehead>
<para>The third edition was the culmination of over two years of
work by the dedicated members of the FreeBSD Documentation
Project. The following are the major changes in this new
edition:</para>
Project. The printed edition grew to such a size that it was
necessary to publish as two separate volumes. The following are
the major changes in this new edition:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead id="preface-changes" renderas=sect1>Changes from the
First Edition</bridgehead>
First Edition (2001)</bridgehead>
<para>The second edition was the culmination of over two years of
work by the dedicated members of the FreeBSD Documentation