From 6388c6bed3e616ef2bb9c142dd2febc41a1fc40e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ceri Davies Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 20:41:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] - Grammar and spelling improvements - Update the date of the last core election - Add Xeon, Pentium IV and sparc64 to the list of supported processors - Update the size of the ports collection --- .../books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml index 521f51d473..bb1dab79a8 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ to factory automation, inventory control to azimuth correction of remote satellite antennae; if it can be done with a commercial Unix product then it is more than likely that you can do it with - FreeBSD too! FreeBSD also benefits significantly from the + FreeBSD too! FreeBSD also benefits significantly from literally thousands of high quality applications developed by research centers and universities around the world, often available at little to no cost. Commercial applications are also @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ X Window System - Accellerated-X + Accelerated-X X Window workstation: FreeBSD is a @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ using the freely available XFree86 server or one of the excellent commercial servers provided by X Inside. Unlike an X terminal, FreeBSD allows many applications to be run - locally, if desired, thus relieving the burden on a central + locally if desired, thus relieving the burden on a central server. FreeBSD can even boot diskless, making individual workstations even cheaper and easier to administer. @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ 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 October 2000. Elections are held every 2 years. + candidates in June 2002. Elections are held every 2 years. Some core team members also have specific areas of @@ -835,13 +835,14 @@ FreeBSD is a freely available, full source 4.4BSD-Lite based release for Intel i386, i486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron, - Pentium II, Pentium III (or compatible) and DEC Alpha based computer + Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium IV (or compatible), Xeon, DEC Alpha and SPARC64 based computer systems. It is based primarily on software from U.C. Berkeley's CSRG group, with some enhancements from NetBSD, OpenBSD, 386BSD, and the Free Software Foundation. Since our release of FreeBSD 2.0 in late 94, the performance, feature set, and stability of FreeBSD has improved dramatically. + The largest change is a revamped virtual memory system with a merged VM/file buffer cache that not only increases performance, but also reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5 MB configuration a @@ -863,7 +864,7 @@ were over &os.numports; ports! The list of ports ranges from http (WWW) servers, to games, languages, editors, and almost everything in between. The entire ports collection requires - approximately 100 MB of storage, all ports being expressed as + approximately 170 MB of storage, all ports being expressed as deltas to their original sources. This makes it much easier for us to update ports, and greatly reduces the disk space demands made by the older 1.0 ports collection. To