From 534ee1cfebbc5e28206953659a7a750c2e520569 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:17:55 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mare grammer and spalling foxes. A few markup tweaks as well, and give some motivation for the C720 Chromebook project. Approved by: hrs (mentor, blanket) --- .../news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml | 141 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml index ba175f44e2..2ae9b6cf23 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml @@ -164,14 +164,13 @@ -

There were several improvements made to the FreeBSD process +

There were several improvements made to &os;'s process management last quarter.

-

The Reaper facility was added, allowing a process to reliably track the running and exiting state of the whole subtree of - the processes. It is intended to improve tools like - timeout(1) or poudriere, by making it impossible for the + its processes. It is intended to improve tools like + timeout(1) or poudriere, by making it impossible for a runaway grandchild to escape the controlling process. The feature was designed based on similar facilities in DragonFlyBSD and Linux, with some references to Solaris @@ -192,8 +191,8 @@ thread to put some processes into stopped state. Also, a facility to sync filesystems before suspend was added, to ensure that consistent metadata and as much as possible of the - cached user data are on stable storage, to minimize damage of - failed resume.

+ cached user data are on stable storage, to minimize the damage + that could be caused by a failed resume.

The code stressed some parts of the system and has led to discovery of a number of bugs in different areas, including @@ -204,7 +203,7 @@

During the work described above, it was noted that process spinlock duties are significantly overloaded (the same is true for the process lock). The spinlock was split into - per-feature locks in r275121. As result, it was also possible + per-feature locks in r275121. As a result, it was also possible to eliminate recursion on it in r275372.

@@ -229,9 +228,16 @@ -

Most system features work, including keyboard, WiFi, sound, - VESA graphics, touchpad, USB and decent battery life (5 to 6 - hours).

+

The Acer C720 Chromebook is a powerful but inexpensive laptop + designed to run Google's Chrome OS. This project aims to + bring &os; to the C720, providing an easy way for people to + experience &os; on hardware which is widely available and + inexpensive.

+ +

As of this update, most system features work, including the + keyboard, WiFi, sound, VESA graphics, touchpad, and USB. The battery + life is a reasonable 5 to 6 hours (compare to the published 8.5 hour + lifetime for Chrome OS.

@@ -301,9 +307,9 @@ 1.4. This release fixes lots of bugs and adds some new features: