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A few more changes in Handbook's "introduction" chapter:

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- Change CDROM -> CD-ROM
- Add SVN as our new source code control tool
- Update the core team election date

Approved by:	gabor (mentor)
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</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>&os; is available in both source and binary form on CDROM,
<para>&os; is available in both source and binary form on CD-ROM,
DVD,
and via anonymous FTP. Please see <xref linkend="mirrors">
for more information about obtaining &os;.</para>
@ -535,7 +535,7 @@
<indexterm><primary>U.C. Berkeley</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>386BSD</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>Free Software Foundation</primary></indexterm>
<para>The first CDROM (and general net-wide) distribution was
<para>The first CD-ROM (and general net-wide) distribution was
&os;&nbsp;1.0, released in December of 1993. This was based on the
4.3BSD-Lite (<quote>Net/2</quote>) tape from U.C. Berkeley, with
many components also provided by 386BSD and the Free Software
@ -570,7 +570,7 @@
(due to various legal requirements) and the fact that the Intel
port of 4.4 was highly incomplete. It took the project until
November of 1994 to make this transition, at which point it
released &os;&nbsp;2.0 to the net and on CDROM (in late December).
released &os;&nbsp;2.0 to the net and on CD-ROM (in late December).
Despite being still more than a little rough around the edges,
the release was a significant success and was followed by the
more robust and easier to install &os;&nbsp;2.0.5 release in June of
@ -633,7 +633,7 @@
<para>For now, long-term development projects continue to take place in the
8.X-CURRENT (trunk) branch, and SNAPshot releases of 8.X on
CDROM (and, of course, on the net) are continually made available
CD-ROM (and, of course, on the net) are continually made available
from <ulink url="ftp://current.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/">
the snapshot server</ulink> as work progresses.</para>
</sect2>
@ -721,7 +721,7 @@
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>The CVS repository<anchor
<term>The SVN and CVS repositories<anchor
id="development-cvs-repository"></term>
<indexterm>
@ -732,15 +732,41 @@
<primary>Concurrent Versions System</primary>
<see>CVS</see>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>SVN</primary>
<secondary>repository</secondary>
</indexterm>
<indexterm>
<primary>Subversion</primary>
<see>SVN</see>
</indexterm>
<listitem>
<para>The central source tree for &os; is maintained by
<para>For several years, the central source tree for &os; was maintained by
<ulink url="http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/">CVS</ulink>
(Concurrent Versions System), a freely available source code
control tool that comes bundled with &os;. The primary
<ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi">CVS
repository</ulink> resides on a machine in Santa Clara CA, USA
control tool that comes bundled with &os;. In June 2008, the
Project switched to using <ulink
url="http://subversion.tigris.org">SVN</ulink> (Subversion).
The switch was deemed necessary, as the technical limitations
imposed by <application>CVS</application> were becoming obvious
due to the rapid expansion of the source tree and the amount
of history already stored. While the main repository now uses
<application>SVN</application>, client side tools like
<application>CVSup</application> and
<application>csup</application> that depend on the older
<application>CVS</application> infrastructure, continue to
work normally &mdash; changes in the
<application>SVN</application> repository are backported to
<application>CVS</application> for this purpose.
Currently, only the central source tree is controlled by
<application>SVN</application>.
The documentation, World Wide Web, and Ports repositories are
still using <application>CVS</application>. The primary
<ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi">repository</ulink>
resides on a machine in Santa Clara CA, USA
from where it is replicated to numerous mirror machines
throughout the world. The CVS tree, which contains the <link
throughout the world. The <application>SVN</application> tree, which contains the <link
linkend="current">-CURRENT</link> and <link
linkend="stable">-STABLE</link> trees,
can all be easily replicated to your own machine as well.
@ -783,8 +809,7 @@
is one of the functions of the core team, as is the
recruitment of new core team members as others move on.
The current core team was elected from a pool of committer
candidates in July 2006. Elections are held every 2 years.
</para>
candidates in July 2008. Elections are held every 2 years.</para>
<para>Some core team members also have specific areas of
responsibility, meaning that they are committed to
@ -903,7 +928,7 @@
program you wish to install, type <command>make
install</command>, and let the system do the rest. The full
original distribution for each port you build is retrieved
dynamically off the CDROM or a local FTP site, so you need
dynamically off the CD-ROM or a local FTP site, so you need
only enough disk space to build the ports you want. Almost
every port is also provided as a pre-compiled
<quote>package</quote>, which can be installed with a simple