diff --git a/en/news/status/report-2005-03-2005-06.xml b/en/news/status/report-2005-03-2005-06.xml index 07acbdbc67..f36f9562b8 100644 --- a/en/news/status/report-2005-03-2005-06.xml +++ b/en/news/status/report-2005-03-2005-06.xml @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ next year.</p> <p>The Google Summer of Code project has also generated quite a bit - of excitement. FreeBSD has been granted 18 funded mentorship spots, + of excitement. FreeBSD has been granted 19 funded mentorship spots, the fourth most of all of participating organizations. Projects being - worked on range from UFS Journalling to porting the new BSDInstaller + worked on range from UFS Journaling to porting the new BSD Installer to redesigning the venerable www.FreeBSD.org website. We are quite pleased to be working with so many talented students, and eagerly await the results of their work. More information and status can be @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ been completed. I need to move this to production soon.</task> <task>Customized news feeds are in the works. You'll be able to - create a news feed for each of your watch lists This work is + create a news feed for each of your watch lists. This work is contingent upon finishing the Last-Modified headers.</task> </help> </project> @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ <body> <p>We are currently working on an updated implementation of <a href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jnavarro/papers/osdi02.ps">Juan - Navarro's transparent support for superpages in FreeBSD</a> + Navarro's transparent support for superpages in FreeBSD.</a> </p> <p>The idea is to take advantage of the architectural support for @@ -770,9 +770,9 @@ <p>A presentation on the forthcoming multi-bss support was given at BSDCan 2005. The slides from the talk are available at <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf"> - http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf</a> + http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf</a>. - . The plan is to commit this work to HEAD after 6.0 is released + The plan is to commit this work to HEAD after 6.0 is released which means the first release that will have it is 7.0.</p> </body> @@ -811,11 +811,11 @@ call it FreeSBIE 2</p> <p>Before being accepted, I worked hard on the FreeSBIE 1 toolkit - to make it more flexible. It now supports amd64 and powerpc + to make it more flexible. It now supports amd64 and PowerPC architecture. The built filesystem can now boot from almost every - media, from dvd to compact flash or hard disk. Also on i386 is + media, from DVD to compact flash or hard disk. Also on i386 it is now possible to include the BSD Installer on the livefs. We've received - reports that our toolkit is successfully used for install cd of + reports that our toolkit is successfully used for the install CD of <a href="http://www.pfsense.com">pfSense</a> and @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>GGATE is a machinism for exporting storage devices over the + <p>GGATE is a mechanism for exporting storage devices over the network. It was reimplemented to be much faster and to handle network failures better. The ggatec uses two threads now: sendtd, which takes I/O request from the kernel and sends it to ggated; @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>Google has generously funded 18 students to spend the summer + <p>Google has generously funded 19 students to spend the summer working on FreeBSD related projects. Each student is working with one or more mentors to learn about how open source software development is done with FreeBSD. This development work is @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ <p>So far progress has been slow, the autoconf build system has been removed from all of the launchd(8) code, and launchctl(1) is building and semi-functional on FreeBSD-CURRENT (i.e. - CoreFoundation hooks have been removed)</p> + CoreFoundation hooks have been removed).</p> <p>I'm currently working on porting "liblaunch" which is the core backend to both launchd(8) (the actual daemon) and launchctl(1), @@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ <p>The OpenBSD rewrite of dhclient has been imported, replacing the ISC dhclient. The OpenBSD client provides better support for roaming on wireless networks and a simpler model of operation. - Instead of a single dhclient process per system, there is on per + Instead of a single dhclient process per system, there is one per network interface. This instance automatically goes away in the even of link loss and is restarted via devd when link is reacquired. To support this change, many aspects of the network @@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ finished. Support for services, services_compat, rpc, protocols, and ssh_host_keys databases is added with 'files', 'nis' and 'compat' (for services) sources possible. The nsswitch-friendly - openssh port is amlost completed.</p> + openssh port is almost completed.</p> </body> <help> @@ -1443,8 +1443,8 @@ <body> <p>My SoC project is about improving libalias and integrating it - with ipfw2, adding nat support into the firewall. Till now i ported - libalias (as a kld) and ng_nat to 4.x and 5.x branches, and i've + with ipfw2, adding nat support into the firewall. Till now I ported + libalias (as a kld) and ng_nat to 4.x and 5.x branches, and I've already a first working patchset that adds 'nat' action into ipfw. Next step will be to add a complete syntax to ipfw that will let us manipulate libalias operations, much like we already do with queue @@ -1519,9 +1519,9 @@ <p>FreeBSD lacks a way to remove old/outdated files and directories in the basesystem. I have a patch which removes obsolete files in a safe way (interactively, since only the administrator really knows - if there's a need to keed an old file or not; there's a switch for + if there's a need to keep an old file or not; there's a switch for batch-processing). This feature may or may not be available for - 6.0-RELEASE, depending on the decission from the Release + 6.0-RELEASE, depending on the decision from the Release Engineering team.</p> </body> @@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ <body> <ol> - <li>Setup a local P4 workspace of sebsd source and Setup lxr for + <li>Setup a local P4 workspace of SEBSD source and Setup lxr for TrustedBSD source for studying source code.</li> <li>Test a simple policy configuration for vsftpd.</li> @@ -1768,9 +1768,7 @@ <em>Getting Started with SEBSD HOWTO</em> by deriving the existing - <em>Getting Started with SELinux HOWTO</em> - - .</li> + <em>Getting Started with SELinux HOWTO</em>.</li> </ol> <p>Thanks Robert Watson and Scott Long for their kind help.</p> diff --git a/en/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.xml b/en/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.xml index 07acbdbc67..f36f9562b8 100644 --- a/en/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.xml +++ b/en/news/status/report-mar-2005-june-2005.xml @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ next year.</p> <p>The Google Summer of Code project has also generated quite a bit - of excitement. FreeBSD has been granted 18 funded mentorship spots, + of excitement. FreeBSD has been granted 19 funded mentorship spots, the fourth most of all of participating organizations. Projects being - worked on range from UFS Journalling to porting the new BSDInstaller + worked on range from UFS Journaling to porting the new BSD Installer to redesigning the venerable www.FreeBSD.org website. We are quite pleased to be working with so many talented students, and eagerly await the results of their work. More information and status can be @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ been completed. I need to move this to production soon.</task> <task>Customized news feeds are in the works. You'll be able to - create a news feed for each of your watch lists This work is + create a news feed for each of your watch lists. This work is contingent upon finishing the Last-Modified headers.</task> </help> </project> @@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ <body> <p>We are currently working on an updated implementation of <a href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/~jnavarro/papers/osdi02.ps">Juan - Navarro's transparent support for superpages in FreeBSD</a> + Navarro's transparent support for superpages in FreeBSD.</a> </p> <p>The idea is to take advantage of the architectural support for @@ -770,9 +770,9 @@ <p>A presentation on the forthcoming multi-bss support was given at BSDCan 2005. The slides from the talk are available at <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf"> - http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf</a> + http://www.freebsd.org/~sam/BSDCan2005.pdf</a>. - . The plan is to commit this work to HEAD after 6.0 is released + The plan is to commit this work to HEAD after 6.0 is released which means the first release that will have it is 7.0.</p> </body> @@ -811,11 +811,11 @@ call it FreeSBIE 2</p> <p>Before being accepted, I worked hard on the FreeSBIE 1 toolkit - to make it more flexible. It now supports amd64 and powerpc + to make it more flexible. It now supports amd64 and PowerPC architecture. The built filesystem can now boot from almost every - media, from dvd to compact flash or hard disk. Also on i386 is + media, from DVD to compact flash or hard disk. Also on i386 it is now possible to include the BSD Installer on the livefs. We've received - reports that our toolkit is successfully used for install cd of + reports that our toolkit is successfully used for the install CD of <a href="http://www.pfsense.com">pfSense</a> and @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>GGATE is a machinism for exporting storage devices over the + <p>GGATE is a mechanism for exporting storage devices over the network. It was reimplemented to be much faster and to handle network failures better. The ggatec uses two threads now: sendtd, which takes I/O request from the kernel and sends it to ggated; @@ -945,7 +945,7 @@ </links> <body> - <p>Google has generously funded 18 students to spend the summer + <p>Google has generously funded 19 students to spend the summer working on FreeBSD related projects. Each student is working with one or more mentors to learn about how open source software development is done with FreeBSD. This development work is @@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@ <p>So far progress has been slow, the autoconf build system has been removed from all of the launchd(8) code, and launchctl(1) is building and semi-functional on FreeBSD-CURRENT (i.e. - CoreFoundation hooks have been removed)</p> + CoreFoundation hooks have been removed).</p> <p>I'm currently working on porting "liblaunch" which is the core backend to both launchd(8) (the actual daemon) and launchctl(1), @@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ <p>The OpenBSD rewrite of dhclient has been imported, replacing the ISC dhclient. The OpenBSD client provides better support for roaming on wireless networks and a simpler model of operation. - Instead of a single dhclient process per system, there is on per + Instead of a single dhclient process per system, there is one per network interface. This instance automatically goes away in the even of link loss and is restarted via devd when link is reacquired. To support this change, many aspects of the network @@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ finished. Support for services, services_compat, rpc, protocols, and ssh_host_keys databases is added with 'files', 'nis' and 'compat' (for services) sources possible. The nsswitch-friendly - openssh port is amlost completed.</p> + openssh port is almost completed.</p> </body> <help> @@ -1443,8 +1443,8 @@ <body> <p>My SoC project is about improving libalias and integrating it - with ipfw2, adding nat support into the firewall. Till now i ported - libalias (as a kld) and ng_nat to 4.x and 5.x branches, and i've + with ipfw2, adding nat support into the firewall. Till now I ported + libalias (as a kld) and ng_nat to 4.x and 5.x branches, and I've already a first working patchset that adds 'nat' action into ipfw. Next step will be to add a complete syntax to ipfw that will let us manipulate libalias operations, much like we already do with queue @@ -1519,9 +1519,9 @@ <p>FreeBSD lacks a way to remove old/outdated files and directories in the basesystem. I have a patch which removes obsolete files in a safe way (interactively, since only the administrator really knows - if there's a need to keed an old file or not; there's a switch for + if there's a need to keep an old file or not; there's a switch for batch-processing). This feature may or may not be available for - 6.0-RELEASE, depending on the decission from the Release + 6.0-RELEASE, depending on the decision from the Release Engineering team.</p> </body> @@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ <body> <ol> - <li>Setup a local P4 workspace of sebsd source and Setup lxr for + <li>Setup a local P4 workspace of SEBSD source and Setup lxr for TrustedBSD source for studying source code.</li> <li>Test a simple policy configuration for vsftpd.</li> @@ -1768,9 +1768,7 @@ <em>Getting Started with SEBSD HOWTO</em> by deriving the existing - <em>Getting Started with SELinux HOWTO</em> - - .</li> + <em>Getting Started with SELinux HOWTO</em>.</li> </ol> <p>Thanks Robert Watson and Scott Long for their kind help.</p>