From bdccea390516e2252111d8680586b17451bf9be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:15:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Try and take some of this content into the 90's. :) --- .../books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml | 108 +++++++++--------- .../books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml | 108 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml index 76e5d53160..b2e28e9bf1 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -21,34 +21,40 @@ FreeBSD in a Nutshell FreeBSD is a state of the art operating system for computer - systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes the - 386 and 486 and Pentium processors (both SX and DX versions) and the DEC - Alpha architecture. Intel compatible CPUs from AMD to Cyrix are - supported as well. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features - previously available only on much more expensive computers. + systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes + the 386 and Pentium family of processors as well as Intel + compatible CPUs from Cyrix and AMD, and the DEC Alpha + architecture. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features + previously available only on much more expensive systems. These features include: - Preemptive multitasking with dynamic - priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing of the - computer between applications and users. + Preemptive multitasking with + dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair + sharing of the computer between applications and users, even + under the heaviest of loads. - Multiuser access means that many people can - use a FreeBSD system simultaneously for a variety of things. System - peripherals such as printers and tape drives are also properly - SHARED BETWEEN ALL users on the system. + Multiuser access means that many + people can use a FreeBSD system simultaneously for a variety + of things. This means, for example, that system peripherals + such as printers and tape drives are properly shared between + all users on the system or the network and that individual + resource limits can be placed on users or groups of users, + protecting critical system resources from over-use. - Complete TCP/IP networking including SLIP, - PPP, NFS and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can - inter-operate easily with other systems as well act as an enterprise - server, providing vital functions such as NFS (remote file access) - and e-mail services or putting your organization on the Internet - with WWW, ftp, routing and firewall (security) services. + Strong TCP/IP networking with + support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP + and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can + inter-operate easily with other systems as well act as an + enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS + (remote file access) and e-mail services or putting your + organization on the Internet with WWW, ftp, routing and + firewall (security) services. @@ -58,8 +64,9 @@ - FreeBSD is a 32-bit operating system and - was designed as such from the ground up. + FreeBSD is a 32-bit operating + system (64-bit on the Alpha) and was + designed as such from the ground up. @@ -70,11 +77,11 @@ Binary compatibility with many programs - built for SCO, BSDI, NetBSD, Linux and 386BSD. + built for Linux, SCO, SVR4, BSDI and NetBSD. - Hundreds of ready-to-run applications are + Thousands of ready-to-run applications are available from the FreeBSD ports and packages collection. Why search the net when you can find it all right here? @@ -95,9 +102,8 @@ - Shared libraries (the Unix equivalent of - MS-Windows DLLs) provide for efficient use of disk space and - memory. + SMP support for machines with multiple + CPUs (Intel only). @@ -163,11 +169,11 @@ - World Wide Web servers + World Wide Web servers (standard or secure [SSL]) - Gopher servers + Firewalls and NAT ("IP masquerading") gateways. @@ -175,11 +181,7 @@ - USENET News - - - - Bulletin Board Systems + USENET News or Bulletin Board Systems @@ -187,8 +189,10 @@ - You can easily start out small with an inexpensive 386 class PC - and upgrade as your enterprise grows. + With FreeBSD, you can easily start out small with an + inexpensive 386 class PC and upgrade all the way up to a + quad-processor Xeon with RAID storage as your enterprise + grows. @@ -328,17 +332,19 @@ (“-current”) in November 1996 as the RELENG_2_2 branch, and the first full release (2.2.1) was released in April, 1997. Further releases along the 2.2 branch were done in the Summer and Fall of '97, - the latest being 2.2.7 which appeared in late July of '98. The first - official 3.0 release appeared in October, 1998 and the last release on - the 2.2 branch, 2.2.8, appeared in November, 1998. + the last of which (2.2.8) appeared in November, 1998. The first + official 3.0 release appeared in October, 1998 and spelled the beginning + of the end for the 2.2 branch. - The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999. This led to 4.0-current - and a 3.x-stable branch, from which 3.1 was released on February - 15th, 1999 and 3.2 was released on May 15, 1999. + The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999, leading to the 4.0-current + and 3.x-stable branches. From 3.x-stable, 3.1 was released on February + 15th, 1999 and 3.2 on May 15, 1999. The most current release on this + branch is 3.3, which was released on September 16th, 1999. - Long term development projects will continue to take place in the - 4.0-current branch and SNAPshot releases of 4.0 on CDROM (and, of - course, on the net). + Long term development projects continue to take place in the + 4.0-current branch, and SNAPshot releases of 4.0 on CDROM (and, + of course, on the net) are continually made available as work + progresses. @@ -361,9 +367,9 @@ License (GPL) or Library General Public License (LGPL) comes with slightly more strings attached, though at least on the side of enforced access rather than the usual opposite. Due to the additional complexities that - can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software, we do, however, - endeavor to replace such software with submissions under the more - relaxed BSD copyright when reasonable to do so. + can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software we do, however, + prefer software submitted under the more relaxed BSD copyright when it's + a reasonable option to do so. @@ -516,10 +522,10 @@ buffer cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support, - transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem, - ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI and Fast Ethernet (100Mbit) - adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and - many hundreds of bug fixes. + transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP support, + an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI, Fast + and Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbit) adapters, improved support for the latest + Adaptec controllers and many hundreds of bug fixes. We have also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and diff --git a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml index 76e5d53160..b2e28e9bf1 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/introduction/chapter.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @@ -21,34 +21,40 @@ FreeBSD in a Nutshell FreeBSD is a state of the art operating system for computer - systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes the - 386 and 486 and Pentium processors (both SX and DX versions) and the DEC - Alpha architecture. Intel compatible CPUs from AMD to Cyrix are - supported as well. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features - previously available only on much more expensive computers. + systems based on both the Intel CPU architecture, which includes + the 386 and Pentium family of processors as well as Intel + compatible CPUs from Cyrix and AMD, and the DEC Alpha + architecture. FreeBSD provides you with many advanced features + previously available only on much more expensive systems. These features include: - Preemptive multitasking with dynamic - priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair sharing of the - computer between applications and users. + Preemptive multitasking with + dynamic priority adjustment to ensure smooth and fair + sharing of the computer between applications and users, even + under the heaviest of loads. - Multiuser access means that many people can - use a FreeBSD system simultaneously for a variety of things. System - peripherals such as printers and tape drives are also properly - SHARED BETWEEN ALL users on the system. + Multiuser access means that many + people can use a FreeBSD system simultaneously for a variety + of things. This means, for example, that system peripherals + such as printers and tape drives are properly shared between + all users on the system or the network and that individual + resource limits can be placed on users or groups of users, + protecting critical system resources from over-use. - Complete TCP/IP networking including SLIP, - PPP, NFS and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can - inter-operate easily with other systems as well act as an enterprise - server, providing vital functions such as NFS (remote file access) - and e-mail services or putting your organization on the Internet - with WWW, ftp, routing and firewall (security) services. + Strong TCP/IP networking with + support for industry standards such as SLIP, PPP, NFS, DHCP + and NIS support. This means that your FreeBSD machine can + inter-operate easily with other systems as well act as an + enterprise server, providing vital functions such as NFS + (remote file access) and e-mail services or putting your + organization on the Internet with WWW, ftp, routing and + firewall (security) services. @@ -58,8 +64,9 @@ - FreeBSD is a 32-bit operating system and - was designed as such from the ground up. + FreeBSD is a 32-bit operating + system (64-bit on the Alpha) and was + designed as such from the ground up. @@ -70,11 +77,11 @@ Binary compatibility with many programs - built for SCO, BSDI, NetBSD, Linux and 386BSD. + built for Linux, SCO, SVR4, BSDI and NetBSD. - Hundreds of ready-to-run applications are + Thousands of ready-to-run applications are available from the FreeBSD ports and packages collection. Why search the net when you can find it all right here? @@ -95,9 +102,8 @@ - Shared libraries (the Unix equivalent of - MS-Windows DLLs) provide for efficient use of disk space and - memory. + SMP support for machines with multiple + CPUs (Intel only). @@ -163,11 +169,11 @@ - World Wide Web servers + World Wide Web servers (standard or secure [SSL]) - Gopher servers + Firewalls and NAT ("IP masquerading") gateways. @@ -175,11 +181,7 @@ - USENET News - - - - Bulletin Board Systems + USENET News or Bulletin Board Systems @@ -187,8 +189,10 @@ - You can easily start out small with an inexpensive 386 class PC - and upgrade as your enterprise grows. + With FreeBSD, you can easily start out small with an + inexpensive 386 class PC and upgrade all the way up to a + quad-processor Xeon with RAID storage as your enterprise + grows. @@ -328,17 +332,19 @@ (“-current”) in November 1996 as the RELENG_2_2 branch, and the first full release (2.2.1) was released in April, 1997. Further releases along the 2.2 branch were done in the Summer and Fall of '97, - the latest being 2.2.7 which appeared in late July of '98. The first - official 3.0 release appeared in October, 1998 and the last release on - the 2.2 branch, 2.2.8, appeared in November, 1998. + the last of which (2.2.8) appeared in November, 1998. The first + official 3.0 release appeared in October, 1998 and spelled the beginning + of the end for the 2.2 branch. - The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999. This led to 4.0-current - and a 3.x-stable branch, from which 3.1 was released on February - 15th, 1999 and 3.2 was released on May 15, 1999. + The tree branched again on Jan 20, 1999, leading to the 4.0-current + and 3.x-stable branches. From 3.x-stable, 3.1 was released on February + 15th, 1999 and 3.2 on May 15, 1999. The most current release on this + branch is 3.3, which was released on September 16th, 1999. - Long term development projects will continue to take place in the - 4.0-current branch and SNAPshot releases of 4.0 on CDROM (and, of - course, on the net). + Long term development projects continue to take place in the + 4.0-current branch, and SNAPshot releases of 4.0 on CDROM (and, + of course, on the net) are continually made available as work + progresses. @@ -361,9 +367,9 @@ License (GPL) or Library General Public License (LGPL) comes with slightly more strings attached, though at least on the side of enforced access rather than the usual opposite. Due to the additional complexities that - can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software, we do, however, - endeavor to replace such software with submissions under the more - relaxed BSD copyright when reasonable to do so. + can evolve in the commercial use of GPL software we do, however, + prefer software submitted under the more relaxed BSD copyright when it's + a reasonable option to do so. @@ -516,10 +522,10 @@ buffer cache that not only increases performance, but reduces FreeBSD's memory footprint, making a 5MB configuration a more acceptable minimum. Other enhancements include full NIS client and server support, - transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, an improved SCSI subsystem, - ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI and Fast Ethernet (100Mbit) - adapters, improved support for the Adaptec 2940 (WIDE and narrow) and - many hundreds of bug fixes. + transaction TCP support, dial-on-demand PPP, integrated DHCP support, + an improved SCSI subsystem, ISDN support, support for ATM, FDDI, Fast + and Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbit) adapters, improved support for the latest + Adaptec controllers and many hundreds of bug fixes. We have also taken the comments and suggestions of many of our users to heart and have attempted to provide what we hope is a more sane and